Poetry

Poet Billy-Ray Belcourt in front of an orange background

December 2022 / Poetry

Autofiction

December 1, 2022 - by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Have I always been in the world? / No, I’ve been autumn in the middle of August.

Poet Michael Lista against a red backdrop

November 2022 / Poetry

The Bar in Hell

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 - by Michael Lista

Just pick a stranger, and do the human dance, / Wagering your lost soul on your last romance

Poetry

The Terrible Lottery

November 10, 2022 - by Roxanna Bennett

What is invisible is unreal, like love, / hunger, rage.

November 2022 / Poetry

Storm Warning

October 6, 2022 - by Sadiqa de Meijer

And what is thunder, and what makes stories end?

A man wearing a checkered blazer, glasses, and a fedora smiles and stares downward, against a bright pink background.

Poetry / September/October 2022

Kettle

September 9, 2022 - by James Pollock

Hesitant whistles. Then this wheezing laugh, / growing hysterical, like a dance-of-death

The poet, Nyla Matuk, stares up toward the right corner of the frame. She has dark hair and wears a dark jacket. The background is periwinkle blue.

Poetry / September/October 2022

Synchrony

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 - by Nyla Matuk

Marine monotony, ocean giving way to ocean, / a grammar of latitudinal minutes, hours, days.

People reading books sit on a brick building's fire escape

Fiction / July/August 2022 / Poetry

Summer Reading 2022

August 5, 2022July 24, 2024 - by The Walrus

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Brink

August 5, 2022 - by Terese Mason Pierre

the moon in your chest squeezing / salt water down your untouched flesh

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Tears of Things

August 5, 2022August 16, 2022 - by Susan Musgrave

how I desired, / beyond all reason, those unreachable sweets

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Telephone Repairman

July 12, 2022July 13, 2022 - by Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin

I could take this hammer and drive it / through a wet-oak memory of itself

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