River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
Echoes of Diaspora
By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / 8:44PM, Meijia Wu the last tour bus pulls away grandmothers...
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OUR Works
R.B. Simon
- May 25
The Rock
By R.B. Simon / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / A few years after I left, they tore down the shopping mall. Gentrifying...
Nicole Buzzelli
- May 25
Love (in the Shade of Midnight Blue)
By Nicole Buzzelli / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / I do not wish to be saved from solitude. Bless me with it, a kiss...
Daniel W.K. Lee
- Dec 26, 2022
If Tradition Applies
By Daniel W.K. Lee / Poetry / I wonder if there will ever again be a child named Katrina here inside this sickle of the Mississippi or...
Robin Gow
- Dec 26, 2022
graveyard
By Robin Gow / Poetry / graveyard is the whole apartment building & inside of the refrigerator & inside of every cupboard. we put shovels...
Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias
- Dec 26, 2022
Snoopy Band-Aid
By Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias / Poetry / You hear yourself echo inside her. Knock, knock. It’s me, baby Dionysus. Look at that...
Nicole Tiao
- Dec 26, 2022
Rose
By Nicole Tiao / Poetry / I don’t understand why the sun keeps dipping below the horizon, spinning the sky into pinks and oranges and reds...
Lesley Younge
- Dec 26, 2022
Where She Was Nourished
By Lesley Younge / Poetry / The last day of silence, of retreat, of respite brings a challenge: a solo hike in a forest 9,000 feet above...
John Muro
- Dec 26, 2022
Bequeathed
By John Muro / Poetry / I leave to you, my only daughter, this wedding ring of orange-blossom design, golden-hued, and etched by water,...
Halsey Hyer
- Oct 8, 2022
Please Share This.
By Halsey Hyer / Poetry / Due to the abuse I've endured from [redacted] over the past two years I won’t be the same again. Please share...
Ace Boggess
- Oct 8, 2022
The Door and I
By Ace Boggess / Poetry / I unlock the door. I open the door. I step through space where the door existed. I close the door behind me....
Ivy Raff
- Oct 8, 2022
North Coast Vista
Sans Souci, Trinidad By Ivy Raff / Poetry / Terrible as she is turquoise, the sea chops, roars, wakes shock of forest-clothed hills,...
Corena Young-Dixon
- Jun 26, 2022
A Good Mourning
By Corena Young-Dixon / Poetry / I’m sorry for the way I mourn those you’ve lost. I often look the way toward happier things, toward...
Eric Wang
- Jun 26, 2022
Chilling at the Mandopop Karaoke Bar
By Eric Wang / Poetry / and when she sings the moon represents my heart maybe what she means is the distance, as in maybe i don’t look as...
Kay Parke
- May 12, 2022
Contentment
By Kay Parke / Poetry / The sweetness of a summer peach on the tongue, daylily’s orange bloom lasts a single sun’s round, day’s crimson...
Adrienne Oliver
- May 12, 2022
Arrangement
By Adrienne Oliver / Poetry / Silence isn’t quiet. Quiet is the sound of homes falling asleep or car traffic dying down and restaurants...
Joseph Byrd
- May 12, 2022
A short history of my personal eclipse
By Joseph Byrd / Poetry / Half seeing is whole seeing, if being clear is the ultimate opacity. Once I had the audacity to be found...
Jonathan Chan
- May 12, 2022
the spectacular
By Jonathan Chan / Poetry / “I needed unerased paper, transparent faith. That’s how that day went for me.” - Shin Hae Uk, trans....
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