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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.

E. J. COUSINS
Nothing Says This Is the End of the Poem

Published by Gabi Graceffo

stop off some miles after the WY border stand over Tongue River
full body of a deer

TYLER MILLS
The Air Between the Fingers

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Both hands large enough to palm a globe

JOSÉ A. ALCÁNTARA
In Search of the White Whale

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Just as a fishing boat passes
between me and the rising sun

ANNA GLAZOVA
Laws
(translation by Alex Niemi)

Published by Gabi Graceffo

1.
stole guilt from the guilty, became guilty himself

MARISA LAINSON
Hypothetical Disasters

Published by Gabi Graceffo

1. The fire hops the 405, the sky
is never blue again

SHELBY HANDLER
Blessing Over Organizing

Published by Staff

Blessed are we, betrayers of all counterfeit kinships

JACKIE CHICALESE
Haibun with Aphantasia

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Sunset purls Lake Fayetteville golden. The margin punctuated with goslings

ZAKARIA MOHAMMED
7-24-2019
(translation by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha)

Published by Staff

I have eulogized the dead my entire life, and this has exhausted me.

KAILAH FIGUEROA
Alternate Holocenes Where I Am the Maker (and you are still alive)

Published by Gabi Graceffo

land spreads / & there is no hilt for hands / to bend mines

GABRIEL PALACIOS
Four Poems

Published by Staff

You know nothing of the road out, the one where you will never face your perils