By Eliza Rudalevige A small farewell from one of your literary editors. My father and I, we sing loudly in church; it's one of the few...

By Zibia Bardin Characteristic of me, I get carsick on the plane, have to put the seat back and stare into the blank eyes of the baby...

By Aliza Abusch-Magder Blue Heron Community Garden Waited by the flowers, stared at blue acid skies until a butterfly landed. Bombarded...

by Sylvie Epstein The magnolia is raining And my bare arms tremble Why does your nose sting when you’re about to cry? I wrote once, about...

by Chloë Gottlieb after Lisel Mueller There’s nothing yet. Thousands of pale blue graduation caps land perfectly on our heads, descending...

By Skylar Wu Fonsphobia (Fear of Spring) Spring is the most plump, most miserable mushroom to ever grow out of my eyes. Teal and yellow...

Nicholas Allen ... I was sitting in the Gilchrist in the corner in the back there minding myself when who walks in but Lily in her...

By Chloë Gottlieb

By Annelie Hyatt In the summer of my childhood we would circle the cul-de-sac: endless road ahead of us, conversation about nothing as we...

By Ari King Moment Your Siamese twin, nine minutes dead Is slunked to the side of the hospital bed. What do you think now? What enters...

By Elia Zhang.

By Kelsey Kitzke I think of constellations as metrics of human nihilism: Our need to find patterns where there aren’t any, To create...

Robo-poetry reveals the shortcomings of AI—and our need for human M4M submissions.

I always had a weakness for the Beauty.

By Skylar Wu

By Noa Fay. In a land Overmorrow A golden beam shines Beside, A rainbow– With misted, Colored lines. But such a Land Is not ours– We bear...

By Annelie Hyatt I touch the wrinkles on your hand. I touch body & blister on your knees. This rumination, this elegy, is a wildflower...

The worst part of the chippy meal, but my dad loved them.

A collection of short works of poetry.

After Elizabeth Bishop.