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I HAD CALLED IN SICKPoetry

I HAD CALLED IN SICK

John D RobinsonJune 11, 2020

I sat on the floor and two women were sat on my sofa: we were drinking wine and smoking joints: I knew one of…

Chain Book StoreCreative Non-Fiction, Essays, Fiction, Poetry

Chain Book Store

I watch them come in. The women in Mickey Mouse sweatshirts, their mouths open. They shuffle. Everybody shuffles. The men in winter coats with…

A Whiter HousePoetry

A Whiter House

Oliver StansfieldJune 9, 2020

Imagine there’s a painting adorning the wall of some president’s master bedroom. It hangs beneath a mirrored ceiling where his wife (lucky her) gets…

Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty GirlPoetry

Falling Asleep to an Imagined Pretty Girl

Daniel J. Flore IIIJune 7, 2020

I need to fall asleep to the thought of a pretty girl the world is gross and doesn't care the TV mutilates my vomit…

slave songs—2020Poetry

slave songs—2020

tiko lewisJune 4, 2020

lawd we march lawd we chant lawd we pray lawd i sing the body to a hemorrhage i sing "the fires are not my…

Coming Out & Other PoemsPoetry, Showcase

Coming Out & Other Poems

Lisa SummeJune 4, 2020

The First Time I French Kissed You was the same as the first time I kissed a girl the same as the first time…

Election Day: When My Blood Is on the BallotPoetry

Election Day: When My Blood Is on the Ballot

Andy PosnerJune 3, 2020

“Power is not what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.” —Saul Alinsky Elections have consequences. So say the victors to justify…

Gone HomePoetry

Gone Home

Mike CasettaJune 2, 2020

A black leaping buck painted on a yellow diamond both warns & welcomes me. There is no need for words. My green house has…

Frankenstein UnwrittenPoetry

Frankenstein Unwritten

Wim ColemanJune 1, 2020

     "With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, ​      I collected the instruments of life around me, ​    …

blackthren & brownthrenPoetry

blackthren & brownthren

Rob BreedingMay 31, 2020

sitting in a home, full of white privilege i try to comprehend what it means to be “of color,” never feeling much like a…

A Failed Attempt at Re-parentingPoetry

A Failed Attempt at Re-parenting

Mike CasettaMay 30, 2020

I look in my rear view mirror & see myself as a boy in the back seat who wants to know if we are…