By Anon Baisch / Poetry / Burnt patterns crevice their thin shadows overnight :: the witness is consumed in the edge of darkness and we...

By Sherry Shahan / Poetry / the calendar’s voice is dark / even brine salt is gray / an endless hourglass / gray goes black / it...

By Frederick Pollack / Poetry / We have reached the smallest place. The crew doesn’t understand my plan, my map— they think some...

By Emma Bolden / Poetry / the problem with daughters is they must also be people & the problem with people is some must also be daughters...

By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / 8:44PM, Meijia Wu the last tour bus pulls away grandmothers...

By R.B. Simon / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / A few years after I left, they tore down the shopping mall. Gentrifying...

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...

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...

By Robin Gow / Poetry / graveyard is the whole apartment building & inside of the refrigerator & inside of every cupboard. we put shovels...

By Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias / Poetry / You hear yourself echo inside her. Knock, knock. It’s me, baby Dionysus. Look at that...

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...

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...

By John Muro / Poetry / I leave to you, my only daughter, this wedding ring of orange-blossom design, golden-hued, and etched by water,...

By Carole Greenfield / Poetry / And what did they come bringing you this year? And what would you have wished for, had you even been...

By Emily Ahmed / Poetry / Your daddy’s going to hell for not fasting, she hisses, the inference is, so am I. I, in conversation with my...

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...

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....

Sans Souci, Trinidad By Ivy Raff / Poetry / Terrible as she is turquoise, the sea chops, roars, wakes shock of forest-clothed hills,...

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...

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...

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...