Kayla Czaga

May 2024 / Poetry

Emergency Exit

May 10, 2024May 10, 2024 - by Kayla Czaga

I told Lenny to quit teasing my servers. / I picked Gala apples. I picked Suncrisp apples.

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December 2021 / Poetry

Coho

November 18, 2021 - by Kayla Czaga

My father knelt down at the river’s edge / to unhook it. He cupped it in his palms

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July/August 2020 / Poetry

The Peace Lily

July 3, 2020 - by Kayla Czaga

To say the peace lily died / would be an understatement.

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Vortex Fluid Device

October 26, 2015July 20, 2020 - by Kayla Czaga

Finalist for the 2015 Walrus Poetry Prize In California, chemists are unboiling eggs to cure children and vaccinate cancer. I am unwriting poems, letter by letter to cure sentimentality because …

April 2014 / Poetry

Victoria Soto

April 3, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Kayla Czaga

In the poem I show to no one, a young teacher hides her students from a gunman, lifts them into cupboards—her hands smoothing their hair, closing cupboard doors. Thousands of …

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