Sometimes she imagines it will happen this way / that it has happened already,
and she stands remembering
Jennifer Maier
from the book
The Occupant /
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- September 22, 2026
Marina Carreira
Beloved, your big plastic sign
once a bat signal to all sad girls
and their grandfathers in Ironbound
- September 21, 2026
Ghayath Almadhoun (translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham)
If we lived in a virtual world
I would have turned off the war like you turn off the television
But we were born into a bitch of a world
- September 20, 2026
Catherine Abbey Hodges
Here I’d assumed one poem about jacaranda blossoms
underfoot would be my lifetime quota. But that misses
the point, since I know I won’t know till I’m well in...
- September 19, 2026
Thea Brown
What was your question? My official
statement: a single sprouted leaf on...
- September 18, 2026
Haley Bossé
As in would gender constructs
Be a part of the deal?
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