Air Water Fire Earth by Char Lee Lorraine
August 2, 2020
My mind is quiet when all the bills are paid Twist the button two clicksBlow air between your lips to…
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Warbler by Ari Wolff
August 2, 2020
Jackets of light slump over the trees.Smelled like a new thought.Called out from the narrow place. Awild onion grows here.A…
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Eviction as Aubade by Nico Amador
August 2, 2020
Last night we were insects, rubbing our legs togetherin an empty room. At four, I heard the rain and got…
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Notes on Former Dictatorships, Polyamory, Etc. by Nico Amador
August 2, 2020
I’m away without you. I’m thinking of you and notthinking of you at all. I’m speaking in a tongue that…
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After Surgery by Nico Amador
August 2, 2020
Look at me –I look so goodin this shirtyou gave me,not like every othervillage bearholding his icedcoffee, searchingfor the nextlove.…
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Sea=Sun by Megan Sungyoon
August 2, 2020
Sea                           Poetry; Poem          …
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A Stage of Grief by Tara Betts
August 2, 2020
I have buried the first home I ever had.She still had long hair, like she wanted,but the phone will never…
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The One I Hold On To by DeLon Howell
July 27, 2020
It has been many years since I played son to my father. Most of my life since the word Daddy…
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Strength in Numbers: Sicilian Women on the Front Line by Anne Calcagno
July 27, 2020
Mom slumped, largely out of it, occasionally jolting up. She now blinked at the two large men laboriously, excruciatingly, hoisting…
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How Long Will It Take Us to Get to the Water by Barrie Jean Borich
July 27, 2020
Lake Michigan is churning. Not blue today. Khaki gray, though the backlight is mossy, these shades some mix of freshwater,…
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The Hidden People by Anne-Marie Oomen
July 27, 2020
The rune Fe = Wealth In Nordurardalur, one of Iceland’s northernmost regions, my beloved David and I drive from the…
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West by Yvonne B. Robery
July 27, 2020
Peace like winds in the bull pines pointing at the coastblows through as if I am not there, go west.As…
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East by Yvonne B. Robery
July 27, 2020
I try to orient myself at dawn somewherein Pennsylvania when the dark loosens the grip onmy back and I have…
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The Contents of Cold Milk by Char Lee Lorraine
July 27, 2020
There is a Black man in the poolThe pool past the zen garden just beside the Eucalyptus treeHis skin shines…
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Self Portrait with Unbitten Nails by Amanda Galvan Huynh
July 27, 2020
Instead of the woman behind me in the post office linesaying—Such a pretty girl should have pretty nails—she will comment…
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My Mother’s Words by Amanda Galvan Huynh
July 27, 2020
I fear the words my mother has trouble spelling;using t-h-e-i-r when she really means t-h-e-r-eor your when she means you’re.…
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Empty Bottles and Beer Cans by Amanda Galvan Huynh
July 27, 2020
The night was crisp with a cumbia beatclimbing up with drunk cigarette smoke.Men’s laughter covered a woman’s voiceand a borracho’s…
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The Winter Years by Tara Betts
July 27, 2020
The grass curls under its frigid brown.Sharp wind curls its insistent whiningaround the bricked-up corners, edgeswe typically call home, or…
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Calving by Bridget Apfeld
July 27, 2020
It had been her cousin Laurie who’d taught her. Laurie sixteen, she eleven. Jessie conscious of the weight of those…
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The Complexion of the Game by Nancy Ford Dugan
July 27, 2020
Jill was slowly changing out of her business suit. She was down to a black slip and skirt. Harry had…
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Where to Put My Hands by M Lynx Qualey
July 27, 2020
People will never understand my friendship with Neela. Since the day we met among the metal chairs, she’s slipped from…
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What Happened to FB? by Juan Martinez
July 27, 2020
I’m not the right person to tell FB’s story, but I waited a year and no one else has volunteered…
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Cold Union by Karen Halvorsen Schreck
July 27, 2020
Goodlove, Illinois 1864 In the bay window overlooking the frozen lawn, the spider spins her silk.   I watch her…
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Your Best Friend’s Father by Ola Faleti
July 27, 2020
The first time you have sex with your best friend’s father is no accident. You’ve been watching him for weeks…
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Slimer by Chelsea Laine Wells
July 27, 2020
It was a knee to the balls. Even though later Ricky said it was because he was kind of drunk…
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Y2K FM by Jessie Ann Foley
July 27, 2020
“Illusion never changed/ Into something real” —Natalie Imbruglia, “Torn” Dana crouches before a storage bin in a clammy corner of…
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Excerpt: Matt Fitzpatrick’s MATRIARCH GAME
July 16, 2020
“Dammit!!!” Michonne Reilly, for the second time tripped on a sky-reaching root and fell face-first into a three-inch deep slop…
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One Question: Matt Fitzpatrick
July 16, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Matt Fitzpatrick, author of Matriarch Game, “As Americans, who throughout our history have always felt like the good…
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Excerpt: THEY CALL US BOSSY
July 8, 2020
Excerpted from contributions to They Call Us Bossy I’m Speaking: A Forward By Kailah Peters and Meg Harris “The right…
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One Question: They Call Us
July 8, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked the creators of They Call Us, a feminist literary magazine, “What makes you different from other feminist…
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