poetry-magazineBrunch ShiftBy Amy WoolardWe burn in daylight but we love the dogs until theyBecome stardust again. Like all dogs do, they love… Related Audio LoveRelationshipsHome Life
poetry-magazineThe Story I TellBy Aaron ShurinThe gates, the gardens, the windows, the sky, the ledge of bricks, the fallen leaves, the porch where… Related Audio LoveHeartache & LossRelationshipsHome LifeGriefMelancholy & Despair
poetry-magazineWhen UntouchedBy Lauren RussellHammock dumpingyou onto bruisedgrasses, frayedthoughts droopsideways, hammeringmorning. Slipper-footed… Related Audio Social CommentariesGender & SexualityLivingSorrow & GrievingThe BodyRelationshipsHome LifeAnxiety & Insecurity
poetry-magazineWoof, This HeatBy Kate PartridgeThe dentist is now the sameage as me, which is troubling,mostly because of what Ihave and have not done… Related Audio LivingLife ChoicesParenthoodYouthRelationshipsHome Life
poetry-magazinePhysical EducationBy Joshua BennettFor the sake of argument, let’s saythe day my father outlawed all contactbetween backhand and face, … Related Audio LivingComing of AgeYouthThe BodyRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsHome LifeAnger
poetry-magazineRedworkBy Stefania GomezIn the sunless hour before day I hear the man I wantto love just how I’d want him. He’ll never let a… Related Audio Social CommentariesGender & SexualityRelationshipsHome LifeActivitiesIndoor Activities
poetry-magazineDomestic InteriorBy Shara McCallumPain enters through an open windowand you say it is the wind.It marrows into beams, gutterswalls. Still… Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsHome LifeBlameMelancholy & Despair
poetry-magazineCherryBy Yi Li I love cherries. The fruit, juice, jam, blossoms, prints on a summer dress, in a black forest cake… Related Audio Social CommentariesLivingYouthRelationshipsHome LifeTypes/ModesConcrete or Pattern Poetry
Home EconomicsBy Chaelee DaltonConsider the market. Consider the gross domestic product of Korea. Call it Kimchi.Ferment culture in…Social CommentariesRace & EthnicityWar & ConflictRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsHome LifeAngerBlame
Don't TouchBy Sarah CarsonThe first gun we knew came in a toolbox for the apocalypse: hammer, barrel, crushed can, pack of Newports…Social CommentariesLivingComing of AgeYouthRelationshipsHome Life
Stories No One Wants to Hear [V-XII]By Anastasia Taylor-Lindv.Isn’t it dangerous to be a woman? Surrounded by men, questionsabout risk-taking, parenting (I’m childless…Social CommentariesClassGender & SexualityLivingYouthRelationshipsHome LifeAnxiety & InsecurityBlame + 2 more
Words for WorryBy Li-Young LeeAnother word for father is worry. Worry boils the waterfor tea in the middle of the night.Worry trimmed…LivingParenthoodRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsHome Life
Take the I OutBy Sharon OldsBut I love the I, steel I-beamthat my father sold. They poured the pig ironinto the mold, and it fed out slowly,a bending jelly in the bath, and it hardened,Bessemer, blister, crucible, alloy, and hemarketed it, and bought bourbon, and...LivingLife ChoicesParenthoodThe MindRelationshipsHome LifeActivitiesJobs & WorkingMetersFree VerseTechniquesConfessionalImageryMetaphor + 7 more
poetry-magazineTo Shelter Itself and, Sheltered, to Conceal ItselfBy Gina FrancoWhat looks the ghosts have thirsted for, what love they conceal in their deep pails carried up the stairs… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationMemory & NostalgiaRelationshipsHome Life
poetry-magazinePortrait of My Father Mocking Sammy Davis Jr.By francine j. harrisHe widens an eye and gets down on one knee. He accepts a sliver of silver from my mother and kisses …Social CommentariesPopular CultureRace & EthnicityRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsHome Life
The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit TinBy Karl KnightsIt’s Boxing Day and I’m nearly ten and a half.I got the camouflaged Action Man for Christmas.I told …LivingYouthThe BodyRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsHome LifeAngerDisappointmentGrief + 2 more
poetry-magazinethe abductionBy Adedayo Agarau i think what i saw threw me outside the house—i think a hand dipped into the room through the aluminum… Related Audio Social CommentariesWar & ConflictThe MindMemory & NostalgiaRelationshipsHome Life
poetry-magazinePrelude, ChristmasBy Adedayo Agarau The mothers are weaving their hair & talking about chickens. Iya Jide, who has poultry with twelve … Related Audio Social CommentariesWar & ConflictRelationshipsHome LifeTypes/ModesProse Poem
NightBy Petr HruškaTranslated By Jonathan Bolton True darkness is in a child’s bedroom. Deep black.Elsewhere there’s just a meager, watery twilight…LivingYouthRelationshipsHome Life
TwoBy Petr HruškaTranslated By Jonathan Bolton Two days of rain. Children on the floor. Scant trees. The furniture confesses to the boards. Reaching…ReligionGod & the DivineThe MindDoubt & ContemplationRelationshipsHome Life