AWP 2026

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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Nancy Byrne Iannucci ~ JOHN HUGHES

John Hughes               — to all the Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebies It’s February 18, 2025, John Hughes’s birthday. Altered Images is singing in my head. The fact that he’s dead doesn’t stop me from celebrating the birth of this man,  the man who understood us: The Xers, Gen X, latchkey kids. He was the Nicholas Ray […]

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5 poems by DS Maolalai

Down 45/50 down, depending on builder quotes. jesus: I could live for two years if I’m careful and have a divorce. but instead it’s two bedrooms in a square by the courts and disused market buildings all listed and tumbling down. and we can afford it and still go on holidays two times a year […]

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5 poems by AVA BIRD

thank you note to mother planet goddess gaia  thank you  for having us here  thanks for having me here on your place  birthing our asses  on your beautiful planet  thanks thank you for all you do for us and more  please tell the stars I’m sorry  sorry for the pollution and confusions the stupids, the […]

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3 POEMS by Ivan Ndoma-Egba

Calendar Teetheach month bitesa little harderjanuary gnawed at hopefebruary kissed the woundmarch spatapril laughed with blood in its teethmay bloomed but only with weedsjune forgot how to rainjuly choked on heat and old secretsaugust waited by the windowcounting how many times no one cameseptember showed up late and tiredwith cracked lips and bruised handsoctober whispered […]

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Sebastião Martin ~ CHEM 342

Chem 342 Thermodynamics homework. 1:37am in the second living room. We up late. We forgot the date. We read the rate. We can’t approximate. We separate motions. We contemplate devotions. We partially derive. We finally nosedive. We calculate free energy. We succumb to lethargy. We plot and scheme. We got a 73.  Styled from “We […]

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