POETRY

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
—Rita Dove
Despairathon

You’ve spent a lifetime training
for this.

Pit Stop in Kansas

we drove on through
the blue seal of morning as the turbines
turned and winked out their hearts

The State School 1984 His Given Name Was Wilbur  We Called Him Magpie

Mostly he ate what was put on his plate
snuck coffee grounds or dirt for a snack
Once a zipper Unzipped

An Interview with Brian S. Ellis

The poetry of Brian S. Ellis unravels, inverts, investigates, and complicates. His poems are radical koans and invitations to forego common narratives.

An Interview with Dylan Krieger

Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.

Landscape with Ash

You are strange, my mother said, dwelling on the past.

[Zoetrope with Particulates in it and a Newborn]

and then her eyes fully opened — blazed through with strands of mud

Me and Other Bodily Accessories

I am not a guide
for every traveler
of loss.

Making Israeli Salad

Now that the Israeli has left, it falls
on me to make the salad.

Unerased | Steep Steps

My grandmother asked, “Does it feel like being widowed?”

Willpower

Live the rest of your life
from one worst case to another.

First

Long after midnight, we’re talking about our first time

Time Travel

I count my homes—
those of my scattered youth
the sanctuary of our young family
the intermittent rest stops
of apartments and vacations.

The River

I myself should never have been born

A Beautiful Thing

I want to roll in this moment until I become its vocabulary
until I smell like the bones
until I am its echo…

Welcome To The House of Static

here is the sky in stop motion, flickering,
a still shot in monochrome

The Kotel in Jerusalem is Filled with Cracks

We found in his suitcase T-shirts, his siddur, gifts he bought for his grandchildren…

necromancer woman, witch woman

In my universe, my arm carries a heart and flowers,
my back a misguided quote