Month: April 2026
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— from ABLATION–published by 11:11 Press Buy it here — Danika Stegeman is the author of Ablation (11:11 Press, 2023) and Pilot (Spork Press, 2020). She’s a contributing editor for Conduit and serves as board treasurer for Fonograf Editions. She volunteers for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Along with Jace…
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The painter took me onward,to a place where the streets became narrowerand more gloomy.We came upon a house,at the end of a series of houses,and in that house a roomnear the end of a hallway.Past genocides and heroin dealsthat fill the whole horizon,past wainscoting and holy basil,past scanty clumps of…
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In from the grain a neck shone,a sandy shoe. Red or bad or wetas needs be. The ache beyondhis other self, as you say hewill stay on for it. His restand arm will, too. Even the skyis hard to see but leave, and seeand follow, and leave but see as…
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What would become possible if we lingered atthe threshold of arrival together? What does itmean to arrive? You palpate the inside fromthe outside. Entering me, you become thebeloved stranger of my internal community.Stay here, stay–impossibly long. What does itmean for you to take your turn as teacher inthe little red…
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TTTorpid tongues full lap Lethe lake,Which brandishes silver strings fateShorn and evening. The rememoryTTTable weeping. Tilt round roomShadows spin. —Don’t I know you?If ever anyone I did.TTTelamachus lusted lungrily, leechingLechers told. Watered his bronzeTouch.TTTorn rip river parts wet worryTower rising, and the AbyssAbates. She weet and gnashedTeeth.ThereforeThere wereTwo, at the…
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— from COMA (Community Mausoleum) Read here — Thom Eichelberger-Young is an artist and editor living in Buffalo.
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— from Plat–published by Archway Editions Buy it here — Lindsey Webb is the author of Plat (Archway Editions), a New York Times best poetry book of 2024, and the chapbooks Perfumer’s Organ (above/ground) and House (Ghost Proposal). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, and Lana Turner, among others. She is an editor at Thirdhand Books.
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— from RESOURCES–a project of Blue Bag Press Read more here — Jimin Seo is the author of OSSIA, winner of The Changes Book Prize judged by Louise Glück, and the forthcoming A-1982. He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award selected by…
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How did you double your testosterone?Crows attack my body while I sleep.There’s polished hardwood flooring in my heart.I have never seen a basketball.I live in an old, sunken man.All that weather in my carcass.Where do bees go when they die?Old Deer Goddess, Alabama.I was trapped inside the mesmer’s putrid icicle…I…
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Just as a steam engine does not function without water and coal, and the motor of an automobile stops when short of gasoline, the poet, in order to furnish poetry, must be fed regularly. It is food that gives the poet strength and heat. The first thing a poet does…
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