Traffic Pointers for Your New Planet Greetings, alien! You may be wondering how to navigate. A few tips: Your spaceship requires two parking spaces. You might find a note on your windshield, saying “Learn to park, idiot!” Toss it in the trash. Avoid the mall. It’s full of crappy stores like American Outfitters and Torrid. […]
Read more "Leah Mueller ~ Traffic Pointers for Your New Planet"Rise up in splendor, Chicago! Rise up in splendor, Chicago! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord. See, darkness in the alleys, under viaducts, along the broken sidewalk concrete. See, thick clouds. The sun of morning shines on you and each wrinkle of the flat land, city of the middle, link between high […]
Read more "Patrick T. Reardon ~ Rise up in splendor, Chicago!"Juneteenth I sit in coffeehouses And read Tolkien Because Lincoln freed My ancestors I can live ( almost ) Anywhere because Martin Luther King had the Audacity To believe we were as good As them I can eat in ( almost ) Any Resteraunt Cos Freedom Riders and Sit in-ers chose to listen To the […]
Read more "3 poems by Erren Kelly"Undiagnosed Discomfort Asked if I still keep doves, I recall I once did, but like the petals of down they shed, I’ve lost their names, markings, the number of bodies I held in my palm, fed capsules of bread I’d rolled between thumb and finger, til my mother set them free, out of feelings of […]
Read more "Avra Elliott ~ Undiagnosed Discomfort"word up poetry fans, Cacti 🌵 Fur and its parent organization Grandma Moses Press will be doing a guest appearance in corroboration with Slippery Elm 🌳 Press at the AWP book fair in Baltimore. Look for us at table 839 on Friday, March 6 from 11 AM to noon. If you’re in Baltimore stop by […]
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