Archives: Publications

Noah Sparrow

"there are more rooms than i remember, here: / house born from paint / and silence / wearing his bones like a necklace"

Elaina Erola

"One end of the drive was full of the places and people that built me. The other is full of the beginnings, challenges, and ignitions that kept me going. I needed each to sustain the other. I went home, I went home, I went home." 

Dudley Stone

"Emily Dickinson reaches through eternity / to pluck my sleeve and say, 'Look – / is it not terrifying how You cannot turn / away from Your Fate?'”

Bobbi Sinha-Morey

"I'd nearly forgotten the scent of tea / and roses, the feel of ripe fruit, / the time my teenage daughter showed / me how to use a Bunsen burner."

Fred Johnson

"winter, may well always have been, / cardinals singing in the thaw except / it’s gone, the cardinals I mean, not the snow"

Jasper Glen

"Children? I am singular, / Unfamiliar, spawndark / mob of myself"

Gabrielle Palmer

"under the meager light of a buzzing neon used car sign, these men complete/ a bastardized ritual: they have consulted an oracle. are you sure you’re old enough to/pour me this beer?"

AM Larks

"I am usually the one in control, the one working, the one in charge of someone else’s life, their body, and appearance. But here at Singapore Electric, Cheng is taking charge of my body, my appearance, my life."

Gabrielle Palmer

"grassroots activists search in the yard for old bones, proud./the state has started to sniff around like squirrels, sure they/buried something but not entirely sure where."

Cheryl Dumesnil

"Today’s caller takes the shape / of a child who emerged / from the fault line / after the earthquake"