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Feb 13, 20224 min read
Birthday -- poetry by Isabel Brozen
Hat and gloves. Puffer coat over snow pants, over insulated rubber boots painted with little red flowers. Slide down the gentle slope on...
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Feb 13, 20221 min read
Telephone wires -- poetry by Nina Anin
The maps in the gallery are a mangled mess of roots: The east dragon and the west dragon can't seem to work out where their tails should...
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Feb 13, 20221 min read
untitled #3 -- poetry by Auri Eleni
to minerva— think confession; think candle wax gospel choir or a hand around my throat how could i tell you that it was not sacrilege but...
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Jan 29, 20221 min read
Scheherazade -- poetry by Lauren Williams
if animals could speak how they would plead when caught in a trap! like foxes from folktales praising our lovely furs and our clever work...
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Jan 29, 20221 min read
Ever Since I Left -- poetry by Paisley Pereza
Ever since I left Things feel different now Suddenly the air feels lighter The breeze colder The sky remains blue when I skip class For a...
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Jan 29, 20222 min read
Unborn -- poetry by Lydia Quattrochi
there’s four pictures of my autistic brother, David, hanging in the rooms of the house he is called Chube, Dave, Chob, Chupe, and Buster...
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Jan 15, 20221 min read
母语 -- poetry by Cathy Shang
The beauty of the words that first bubbled out past my baby lips I’m afraid I’m forgetting how to speak. I don’t remember when memory...
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Jan 15, 20222 min read
Mother Tongue -- poetry by Rimel Kamran
When the mother tongue flows from my mother’s lips, her words and syllables flow like fragments of poetry, each hint of her accent and...
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Jan 15, 20221 min read
the elusive a -- poetry by Ezri Rohatgi
my eyes are stinging, the lifeless computer screen stares back at me offering no reprieve. my hand is cramping, and the pencil looks like...
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Dec 18, 20212 min read
seek to destroy -- poetry by Jillian Thomas
they say your body is a temple so respect it and treat it as if you are worshipping a god but they don't know that i would rather set...
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Dec 18, 20211 min read
this little hope -- poetry by Ellis Choi
what more is there to say? they've said it all. i felt the discomfort, i changed my name. living is easier not easy. sure i have to use...
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Dec 18, 20211 min read
The World -- poetry by Adina Gerwin
The world is fractured, broken, hopeless. The snow globe has shattered. The fragments lie wet on the floor. Adina Gerwin is 17 years old...
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Dec 18, 20211 min read
stuck yet still in desire -- poetry by Lena Singh
i like the idea of 1889. phoning you through their public booths. even though i’d have to travel to try and talk to you. hear your...
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Nov 20, 20211 min read
Mother -- poetry by Gretchen Wang
“I don’t remember” Is what You say about every terrible Word You’ve said to Me and every Terrible thing You’ve Done to me yet when you...
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Nov 20, 20211 min read
name tag -- Lennon Hodges
I was 13 when my birth name stopped feeling right The girl it was cut, sewn, and created for was now rough around the edges, burned in...
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Nov 20, 20211 min read
Not Even God -- poetry by Amelia Lenz
I thought it would be more difficult, sharing my soul with you, and yet I told you things I had never told anyone, not even God. How...
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Nov 20, 20211 min read
All-American Boyhood -- Eric Pak
On the first day of kindergarten, I wore my Yankees jersey ‘cause Eomma said I could be an all-American boy. In the classroom, scathing...
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Nov 20, 20211 min read
Sailing in Alaska -- poetry by Leela Sriram
And I saw a whale, Eggshell white shined with Petroleum. I wondered if the Blubber on hus bulging head Acted as a window, where he could...
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Nov 20, 20211 min read
Beauty -- poetry by Julia Dun Rappaport
Beauty is a Trick meant to Distract. A Sly Cat Slinking into an alley, Waiting for a Fool's attraction to be Lured. Social construct...
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Nov 20, 20211 min read
worry & me -- poetry by Amy Feng
sometimes i eat away my worries yet i see it on my face. fingers knotted in my hair, butterfly kisses on my chin. it gropes me through my...
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