Two Futures

Benjamin Niespodziany

mother, lick my fingers

Jackson Minjoon Wright

Google’s new machine can reach between universes to perform quantum computations

David Ward

Asteroid 2024 YR4

Matthew Murrey

Two Poems

Sean Cho A.

Slipping

Shea Socrates

IF YOU WANNA FIGHT, FIGHT

nat raum

Two Poems

Ben Starr

30,000 Feet

Lexi Kent-Monning

Two Poems

Adrian Dallas Frandle

Time Capsule Love Song

Tom Snarsky

More American

JeFF Stumpo

Two Poems

Nellie Diamantopoulou

The way I remember things probably didn’t happen

Katherine Schmidt

Sad King Kong

Jeffrey Hermann

The Fairytale Crab and My Father, Who Was Pure of Heart

M.C. Schmidt

Crawdad Update

Sophia Tone

IF ONLY WE HAD MEDICINE LIKE THAT TODAY

Elizander Espenschied

The Golden Age

V.C. Myers

夸//父//亲

Minghan Zou

Phototaxis is called positive if the movement is in the direction of increasing light intensity

Jennifer Stark

Eat Local

Julia Juster

bro.

Cee Chávez

Used Books

Nick Ekkizogloy

The Ads That Ran During the Super Bowl at the End of the World

Christina Tudor

PRIME TIME IN B&H

C. Landau

Siren Song

Janel Comeau

the miracle in the backyard

Alexander Shalom Joseph

Byron

Tricia Bogle

2008

Molly

that’s just the house settling

Ben Starr

In Which I Am a Dolphin

Hannah Kanfer

Kaleidoscope

Richie Zaborowske

Here Be Dragons

Ioanna Mavrou

Birds & Fish

Mal Virich

Hello From the Children of Planet Earth

Chris Scott

Quinine

Jessica Dawn

The moment you find yourself locked out on the roof at 2 in the morning

Tiff M. Z. Lee

Queens

Beth Kanter

Party Favors

Thad DeVassie

Self Mythologizing

Matt Patrick

Hitchhiker

Jason Davidson

I Know I’m from a River Town

Ashley Kirkland

Groundhog Day

Lucia Lu

Heliotrope Index

Patrick G. Roland

Partly Cloudy to Mostly Haunted

Kip Knott

An Apology to Scream Over the Wind When You Stumble Upon a Horseshoe Crab at the Delaware Bay

Adam Gianforcaro

A Date with Kafka

Anyu Ching

Wingless

Andrew Maynard

Directions from my GPS, I heard once and never heard again in the presumed voice of Olympic silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan.

Margaret Roach

Three Poems

Bea Sophia

Like A Stop Sign Davey Jones

Cake

TACOMA

Aaron Burch

Five Poems

Jeffrey Hecker

Cyberstalker

James Tadd Adcox

Three Poems

Sarah Derreberry

family reunion yr. 41

Claire Ellis

The Man at His First Rodeo

Brian Simoneau

Original Face

Maximiliano Guzmán

Three Poems

Rachel Becker

Waiting for T Coronae Borealis to Explode

Hannah Levy

Devotion to a hopeless enterprise [*]

Gwyn Sise

WHAT THE FORTUNE TELLER LAYING DOWN BEHIND THE CHESS BOARDS IN BRYANT PARK ASKED OR MAYBE SAID TO ME WHILE I ATE MY BAGEL RIGHT AS THE SNOW STARTED FALLING

Sam Berman

Weekend Rental

Chloe Bryan

THE ONLY FOOD TRUCK AT THE END OR START OF THE WORLD

Casey Jo Graham Welmers

First First Date, 1985

Kevin Grauke

Bathroom Stall Baby

Hannah Smothers

Two Stories

Guy Cramer

COULD NOSTRADAMUS MAKE HIMSELF THIS CONFUSED I DON’T THINK SO

Mykki Rios

Poem Before New Lungs

Andrew Walker

Motherfucker

Adam Straus

Burst and Bloom

Alex Carrigan

The Old Dog Begins To Leave Us Now That The Baby Is Here

Natalie Warther

THE MOTORCYCLE GANG FESTIVAL

Robert John Miller

Carnage

Ada Pelonia

Whose Woods

Tom Snarsky

Local History

Shane Kowalski

shells

Kaitlan Bui

TEN DAY PLAN FOR DETACHMENT

Alexandra Naughton

3 Poems

Meghan Harrison

I love JCPenney so much I downloaded a stock trading app for the express purpose of buying JCPenny stock only to find them a privately owned company which made me love them that much more

Alex Rost

Wild Dogs

Kitty Saint-Remy

Conversation between Insomniac Philosopher Emil Cioran and Poet Czeslaw Milosz

Sophia Tone

Pondweed

Alice Wickenden

A Reading

Ewen Glass

Self-Portrait as Alan Smithee

Jon Lemay

you and me

Aaron Rachel Selby

Things My Father Says About Tennis

Binh Do

Hooverville

Ursula Carroll

Buddy’s Gone

Sheldon Birnie

Farewell Taco Charlie’s

Joshua Hebburn

My therapist asks me what gives me hope this week

Bre D'Alessio South

Going No Contact

Daniel Krieger

Three Poems

Tom Snarsky

constellations (revised)

Tracie Renee

What if all of our doomscrolling was narrated by Werner Herzog?

Jared Beloff

It's Another Shit Day in December

Roberta Beary

My Son Swaps Jesus for a G.I. Joe in the Nativity Scene

Aaron Sandberg

Two Santas

Guy Cramer

2 Wise Worms

Steve Minnich

Candy

Madeline Anthes

BLUE COLLAR BOUNDARIES

Tess Matukonis

An Earth Before the Foxhole

Sam Berman

Countdown

Michael Farfel

Being Numinous

Daniel Fraser

& so there must be

t.r. san

Light

Morgan Matchuny

2 Poems

Joe Hall

I too am in love down there

L. Andrew Huffman

Paint Me

Luke Strathmannn

three after Oppen

Tom Snarsky

To The Brother Of The Quadratic Order Who Queried The B.Q.O. Main Office Requesting Information To “Understand” How The Medicine Works

James Jacob Hatfield

Three Poems

Luke Strathmann

Axe / Tiny Cuts

Guy Cramer

Chopping Herbs & Other Poems

Leah Muncy

Sonnet for Ariana Grande

Zachary Swezy

Tow Job

Rob Kaniuk

Fantasy in which bison escapes

Caroline White

Five Poems

Daniel Fraser

A Love Story for the Ages

Mizuki Yamamoto

Sewer Sisters

Dodge Zelko

The Lotus

Elena Zhang

three tinies

Joe Aguilar

A Lot of Things in Nature Look Like Vaginas

Danielle Barr

History Lesson

Leon Hedstrom

We might half-hope to find the animals In the sheds of a nation Kneeling at midnight, Because it would mean they have forgiven us

Sam Heaps

Three Troubles

Sarp Sozdinler

Wake Forest

Julián Martinez

2 Poems

Kara Knickerbocker

I Saw Awesome In My Dream

Timothy C Goodwin

Narc Rules

Sasha Brown

Evolution

Molly Akin

BROKEN GAME OF TRON

Ross White

You Had To Be There

Ioanna Mavrou

In Retrospect

Catherine Rockwood

World’s Okayest Boss

Sarp Sozdinler

Heimlich After I Eat Poetry Too Quickly Again

Todd Dillard

Southern Divide

M.M. Kaufman

Creativity

Steve Gergley

Happy Gilmore Soundtrack

Bobby Vanecko

Two Poems

Waniya Aks E Noor

Insomnia

Diana Cao

Song

Maureen Thorson

Changing the Calendar

Katy Luxem

Two Poems

Adrian Dallas Frandle

Ex-Ex

Kari Zander

Flour Mill, Andrew Wyeth (watercolor, 1959)

J. Freeborn

Fatherhood

Daniel Lurie

Sound of an Impact

Bradon Matthews

Ars Poetica: Lace

Alex Carrigan

Like Cotton

Andrea Krause

Hello from the Future

Kate Hall

Two Poems

Dana Chiueh

Blood Moon

Katherine Oung

Two Small Poems

Lemmy Ya’akova

Addiction

B. Luke Wilson

Discount Shopping

Benjamin Niespodziany

Unluck

Reese Sterling Alexander

Waitmare

Andrew Doll

DUE TO A CLERICAL ERROR,

Skye Sisk

Jinxed

Christina Beasley

Astronaut Training

Sarah Chin

Cancer/Lobster

Evan Hannon

2 Lucks

Sophie Klahr

june, 1989

Frances Klein

Unlucky at Gunnison Bend

Nathan Fako

The Audubon Society’s Guide to the Luckiest Birds to Be Shit On By

Christian Fuller

Two Poems

Stefanie Kirby

Many Will Enter, One Will Win

Jamie Ewer

Luck

Miranda Argyros

Cheater

Andrew Graham Martin

Please Consider The Environment Before Printing This Email

Ross McCleary

Led Zeppelin

John Waddy Bullion

4 Poems

Adam Soldofsky

Days That End With Y

David Simmons

It's The Thought That Counts

Joshua Hebburn

Okay?

Z.H. Gill

Candlewolf

Benjamin Niespodziany

October

Mike Topp

The Broken Promise Tax

Liza St. James

Court Jester

Niles Baldwin

Two Poems

Cletus Crow

Amplification

Elena Zhang

Song

Tom Snarsky

The Parking Lot

Zac Smith

Number Games

Andrew Maynard

Tongues To Wild and Tame

Yelena Crane

Kansas

Kate McIntyre

It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Metaphor or 5 Fun Facts About My Favorite Video Games

Kristin Gustafson

One Time During an Open Mic a Junkie Stole the Money From the Tip Jar

Justin Karcher

card games

Erica Leslie Weidner

Two Poems

Benjamin Niespodziany

THEY CUT THIS FROM THE POLICE REPORT

Tania Ravaei

57 inches

Katie Orr

The Body Count of a Serial Killer

Melinda Wyers

Replying to Spam Texts

Jad Josey

Five

Jeffrey Hermann

Western

Sarp Sozdinler

Five Times I’ve Seen My Father Cry

Matti Ben-Lev

Five Pieces That HAD All Been Done Before

Colette Love Hilliard

5 Rounds of “5 Things”

Grant Frazier

My face takes the shape of a game, but it's not as fun as it looks.

Annelise Schoups

I’ll keep these forever

Sophia Krich-Brinton

MOLLY AND I SEE FIVE 90S BANDS

Emily Costa

[fatherless daughter]

a.d.

Self-Portrait as the Five of Swords

Annie Bolger

Acceptance

Daniel Addercouth

Odds Are

Bryan Thomas Daly

Sorry, Anne

Sophia Tone

Lies I Told the Day You Turned Five

Rachel Beachy

Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic

Anna Vangala Jones

poem in which you become the “you”

nat raum

1996

EJ Green

Steps

Shea Socrates

IT’S 5 A.M. IN THE VIRGINIA BEACH DONUT SHOP & I AM CONSIDERING WHAT I WILL SAY TO MY SISTER IF SHE EVER SPEAKS TO ME AGAIN

Megan Williams

How to Glue a Horse

Benjamin Niespodziany

Cleaning out my notes app

Lacey Cohen

things i eat now that i did not eat before

Mo Buckley Brown

The Year We Got Married

Andrea Krause

365 Days of Trans (January)

Tyler Tea Friend

grocery list

Romy Rhoads Ewing

MIDWEST CITIES

Eric Morris

SELF PORTRAIT

Yetta Rose Stein

Packing List Pantoum

Robert John Miller

HAD Turns 5!

Aaron Burch & Crow Norlander

Legally speaking, Sheetz is required to put whatever you want on a salad.

Kristin Gustafson

just think of all your body could do

Jill Kitchen

8 Heartbreaks at my 5th Grade Gifted Program Field Trip to Space Camp

Claire Nelson

Footnotes to My First Diary,
Sixth Grade, Lock and Key

Melissa Fite Johnson

Things Said to an Eight Year-Old Boy at His Dad’s Funeral

Ewen Glass

Self-Portrait

Tom Snarsky

The Life Expectancy of Jonas Dreamers

Sam Berman

The Dirt Uprising

Zachary Swezy

Anything Calmer than Lemon

Ashley Kirkland

The Gorgeous Fly

Michael Pershan

The Maw by the Sea

Morgan Rose-Marie

Some Roses & Their Phantoms

Taylor Hamann Los

Driving alone to the dentist four weeks postpartum

Natalie Warther

Maybe Someday

Anna Vangala Jones

Last Exit

Stephanie King

 It Takes All Kinds

Laura Bandy

The Difference Between Me and the Shrimp

L.M. Cole

 The Other Kentucky Derby

Noah Powers

WHILE YOUR WIFE IS AT A MEMORIAL SERVICE

Roblin Meeks

Unread

Elena Zhang

Re-Anna-Mator

Julián Martinez

The Outage

Joshua Hebburn

New Boots

D.T. Robbins

Anybody Got the Macros on Transubstantiation

T.M. Boone

Palm Reader

Claire Hopple

2 Poems

Hieu Nguyen

No, Even I

Doug Paul Case

two pomes

Tom Snarsky

deep and poorly ventilated

Kennedy Marie Crowder

Oops We Baked Too Much

David Williamson

Typical

Shane Kowalski

TRADITIONAL HORSESHOE

John Pinto

Her Jesus Year

Joey Hedger

twelve hours of search history (in between vomits)

Amy Colleen

counterfactual

Haley Campbell

I'm Pretty Sure I Would Remember That

Chris Scott

Before

Abigail Myers

Our job is to design shorts so I guess let’s design some shorts

Dan Weaver

The Stuff I Want to Put in My Backpack Right Before I Die 
(Just In Case I Can, In Fact, “Take It With Me”)

Grant Frazier

Universe of Stars

Greg Hill

Tom of Finland

Terrance Wedin

Poetic Justice

Michael Washington

Waste (a Montreal poem)

Sophia Tone

June, so far

Jan Hassmann

Two Poems

Seth Peterson

These Are All the Tree Types We Passed on Our Two-Thousand-Four-Hundred-and-Ninety-Mile Drive to Bear Creek Rehab Center in Stevensville, Montana, When I Could Not Look at You

Sam Berman

Anti-Elegy

Julián Martinez

Silver Rectangle

Tom Snarsky

POEM FOR THE DAY THE US VETOED A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA

Sara Potocsny

Seven Stages to Sacrament

Noah Francis

deje mi tabla en nueva york porque no quería pagar al spirit 60 dólares

md wheatley

Sorry I'm Sorry I'm

Timothy C Goodwin

Riddles in the Dark

Cody Shrum

Teacher

Zavi Kang Engles

An hour in, my home infusion nurse tells me her mother is dying of sepsis

Preeti Talwai

Our Last Walk

Tracie Renee

Something

Binh Do

Beyond the Unlivable

Kyle Seibel

a cacophony of worries in your inbox

Suzanna Graham

A BRIEF AND LEAPY HISTORY OF THE SQUARE

Tom Snarsky

Coming-Out Starter Pack
(2024 Edition)

Kyra Lisse

POV: adding lol at the end of sentences to soften the blow

Kristin Gustafson

Everything

Chelsea Bouchard

My Girlfriend and I Decided to Open a Petting Cafe Inside an Abandoned Walgreens

Sarp Sozdinler

Our Mutual Friend

Ivy Grimes

Scrolling through Your Notes App Remembering This and That and Oh God Please Not That

Sarah Lynn Hurd

Watch Me, Dad

Richie Zaborowske

Haymaker

Kirsti MacKenzie

Mowing the Grass

Adam Shaw

Letters to Bossworld

Julián Martinez

Everything’s Burnt to a Crisp Except Me

Rita Riebel Mitchell

do you think this pigeon knows that it, too, is an animal?

Katherine Schmidt

the thing about opening the archives of your teenage self’s tumblr

melinda li

Really Crappy Movie

Emilie Delcourt

Small, Ambiguous Moments

Julia Strayer

For S. B. (1965-2023)

Kevin Grauke

Mr. Hare’s Open Fields

Brandon Forinash

Save for Death

Dillon J. Welch

Visitation

Joe Kapitan

Poem in Which I Dissociate While my Son Talks about Pokémon

Bethany Tap

Like Eating Elephant

Avery Gregurich

Ode to My Cane

M.S. Marquart

Tiffany

Nick Mendillo

Attendance 

Stephanie Choi

Her Hair is Full of Secrets and Ouai Dry Shampoo

Ashleigh Adams

Love, Distilled

Elizabeth Fletcher

prompt

Laura Walker

Let’s Say This is a Self-Graded Exam and Not a True Story From Your Life

Claire Hanlon

My Sexual Orientation Is an Oat Milk Latte

Amara Tiebout

Now This is What We Call Rock Bottom

Allie Scully

on the planet where you really live

Rafiat Lamidi

Missed Connections

Anna Vangala Jones

A non-exhaustive list of moderately interesting things at the grocery store

E. M. Weich

A New Story

Upasana Pradhan

In the One Place Where You Should Tell the Truth

Jad Josey

Summer Deaths

Daniel Addercouth

The Party

Debmalya Bandyopadhyay

Your Birthday Weekend

Jennifer Ostopovich

Seafood

Matt Quinn

The Young & the Restless

Ryan Petersen

Growth

Jonathan Freeman

Today, in Minecraft

Andrea Cavedo

Tiny Models

Emma Li

Micanopy, Florida

Adriana Beltrano

Unreliable Narrator

Tania Ravaei

Auction House

Mykki Rios

Blackout ’77

Richie Narvaez

After My Doctor Tells Me My Labs Are Normal

Ly Faulk

King Kong Takes A Break From Doing My Taxes To Share Some Personal Thoughts

Lillie E. Franks

A Brief History of My Marriage as a Succulent

Sarah Bradley

Sidekicks

Julián Martinez

Butterfly Woman Effect

Mizuki Yamagen

Rust

Matt Quinn

Fishbone Crown, Bleeding Eyes

Laila Amado

Two Act Play

Joshua Hebburn

One Day All the Girlfriends Will Break Up With All the Boyfriends

Jeffrey Hermann

There’s Nothing But Hell Below

Travis Flatt

Mother Tongue

Anyu Ching

The Sixth Floor Museum

Zach Alan Michael

Only Love

Pat Jameson

Premonition

Eva Hays

Happy Hour

Courtney Pasko

Blue Sharp

Z.H. Gill

Also, I've never watched The Bachelorette

Lucia Lu

Yes, There Was An Incident At The Giant Foam Block Mountain

Timothy C Goodwin

Bandits

Kirsti MacKenzie

The Local Lucha Libre

Julián Martinez

2025.01.06 (mon), 3p-4p

Callie Jennings

A BETTER FUTURE ISN’T POSSIBLE

Nathaniel Duggan

two things!

Tom Snarsky

IQ TEST

Matt Rowan

The Interview

zac smith

Have A Martini

Joshua Hebburn

Astronaut’s Window

Sui Wang

SOME POEMS

Mike Topp

THERE. I DID IT. I REMEMBERED WELL.

Devin Kelly

Two Micros

Natalie Warther

film freak: feral reportage from SXSW

Tex Gresham

Cartoons

Julián Martinez

Two Prose Poems

Benjamin Niespodziany

Inspiration 1

Raye Hendrix

A Poem in Which Chuck Knoblauch Maybe Makes Snow

Claire Taylor

The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid

Anna Vangala Jones

Two Poems

Francesca Leader

Sheltered Missionary Kid Returns to America in the Year of Our Lord Jack and Rose

Claire Hanlon

the beautiful game

Erica Leslie Weidner

CODA

Ioanna Mavrou

On Relating to Bela’s Queer Journey in the Season Three Finale of The Sex Lives of College Girls...

Kyra Lisse

👍

Adam Gianforcaro

A non-exhaustive list of things that make me cry these days

Leslie Wilber

Hearing tests

Allison Zaczynski

The History of Everything We’ve Ever Known

BJ Louis

Mind Head: Diptych

Kate McIntyre

Celebrity Crush Dream in My 30’s

Ashley Kirkland

Two Shorts

Elena Zhang

The Mothers & The Monsters

Michael Credico

There is an El-Camino-Shaped Hole in My Dopamine Receptors

Brenton Woodward

I woke up dead.

L. Andrew Huffman

Horse Girls

Skyler Melnick

The Big One

Kyle Seibel

M.A.S.H

Megan Williams

Good Boy

Rebecca Hawkes

Bisexual Dating Advice

Jessika Bouvier

The Satellite Bar Crowns Miss Satellite

Aleksia To

Bossworld

Julián Martinez

2 Poems

Anthony DiCarlo

plague spit

Olive Greene

Unfinished Mixtape

Scott Garson

dine and dash

Romy Rhoads Ewing

Burrito Baby

Beanie Aurora White

The Scully Effect

Audrey Bauman

Bob Ross Defends the Invention of Death

Callie Jennings

The Disappointments

Hal Wright

After he says Judith Butler is a terrible writer. (Or, before he says Good luck out there.)

Kennedy Coyne

At the Sex Shop Off the Highway, on Valentine’s Day

Danielle Barr

What Would Judy Do?

Claire McNerney

Labyrinth

Maria Cangro

the dildo guy

Catherine Bisley

Jaden Smith Stole Our Role in The Karate Kid

Martheaus Perkins

At a Bar Off Broadway

Mia Testa

Breaking in a Pair of Dr. Martens at 45: A Timeline

Dave McNamara

Tears of a Giant

Billy Sugarfix

pop!

m.m. gumbin

I Drew A Picture Of Myself As A Ghost On My Goodbye Note

Timothy C Goodwin

Wanting

Meghan Elizabeth Kelley

I wait in line for two hours on the first day of recreational marijuana sales in Las Vegas

Suzanne Hicks

Liars

Chas Carey

Desire Broke Up With Me Back in ‘22

xochi quetzali cartland

knife play

dizzy turek

Half Nelson

Jace Einfeldt

The Weight Limit

Noah Anthony Mezzacappa

What to do

Liliana Greyf

Wrong Song

Devon Neal

The Turn

Alicia Rebecca Myers

Epithalamium, With Mentally Ill Wife

Taylor Franson-Thiel

Girls on the Beach

Kathryn Kulpa

On My Phone

Francess Archer Dunbar

Make Something Every Day

Katy Luxem

Jacked

S.H. Woodgeard

Skulldozer

Benjamin Niespodziany

I’ll keep taking you out to the diner on 10th ‘til there’s nothing but me on the menu

LHC

3 micros

Tiff M. Z. Lee

The Guilt Organist

Bodie Fox

Emergency Contact

Kirsti MacKenzie

Trouble in The Old West

Kate Faigen

Tissue

M.C. Schmidt

Dr. Guiseppe Culpa-Organista discovers the Guilt Organ

Joseph Giglio

NO E IN

Lemmy Ya’akova

First Date Playlist

Jennifer Lai

Good Used Cars

Zack Strait

What You'll Do After I Leave You

Emily Roth

Aunt Nancy and Uncle Ben

Jonathan Kelley

An Alternate Universe, Max Verstappen Goes To Therapy

Fatima Zahra

Ode to the Texture of Grapefruit

Kyla Guimaraes

AI PROMPTS FOR CHARLIE’S BIRTHDAY VIDEO

Ryan Petersen

Control

Kathryn LeMon

Zuihitsu as Falling Bird

Amanda Roth

Navigation

Susan Perabo

Disintegration

Alison Selden

We Had / and Chose Desk Jobs Instead

Leah Skay

Don’t Lie to My Face

Sean Dowie

“How often do you think about the Roman Empire?”

Doug Paul Case

3 Poems

Tyler Dempsey

THE SAGE’S BONUS

Z.H. Gill

Three Poems

Kristin Gustafson

Do not speak of night

Hannah Stephenson

I AM HAPPY BECAUSE EVERYONE LOVES ME

Jacob R. Benavides

ritual

Opal Irving

This Mother’s Question

Lisa Thornton

Three Poems

Jenna Martinez

last cigarette

Nicholas Barnes

I CAN’T WALK PAST A 7-ELEVEN WITHOUT THINKING OF LOSS

Finn

Two Poems

Catherine Rockwood

Lanternfly Cento

El Bentivegna

Born Again Christian

Kennedy Marie Crowder

That Old Myth of the Sky

Felix Grygorcewicz

[Sex Sonnet] for Valentine’s Day

Maggie Rue Hess

HEY GOOGLE, WHAT IS MANIFEST DESTINY

Jennifer Met

Proof of Life

Lucy Rees

it’s only october

Jonny Bolduc

The Hunt

Daniel Addercouth

Three Poems

Kip Knott

510 Road

Bradley David Waters

Three Poems

Riley Gable Fleming

Two Truths, One Lie

Aylli Cortez

EIGHT PIECES

David Wojciechowski

MAYBE SEATTLE, JUNE 2025

Zoe Reay-Ellers

Truth

Lucas Restivo

Buy one, get one

Allison Darcy

The Test

Ashley Varela

Richard Brautigan

Addison Zeller

Selkin®

Aaron Sandberg

10/10

Katherine Chiemi

Ars Poetica

Steve McOrmond

2 Poems

Simeon Berry

2 Poems

Kimberly Wolf

Al’s Combos

David Marino

Two poems for your guilty conscience

Cass Noah

In The Spaceship of the Imagination

Amber Burke

Dolphin

Kate Catinella

RESTAURANT DUMPSTER REVIEWS

Eric Boyd

I have some notes on the family legend

Jessica Dawn

3 Poems

Rebecca Hawkes

Box of Shenanigans

Ashley Bach

all walled up

M.E. Macuaga

Exit Interview

Hannah Matthews

Object Lessons

Emma Johnson Tarp

Two Poems

Daniel Findlay

You Can No Longer Send Messages To This Person

Teal Ivy Hall

Cento

Mollie O’Leary

33 Things I Know About Money

Diana Ruzova

PROVERBS 31 WOMAN

Francesca Miller-Barrett

Astrodome

Graeme Bezanson

Listen

Jane Zwart

if they dreamt of a daughter one day without daughters

Kristin Lueke

DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS

Abigail Raley

Hey. Me again.

Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Going to the Bathroom With the Door Open When No One’s Home Because I’m Experimenting with Vulnerability

Jeffrey Hermann

Queer Desire

Griffin Rockwell

Evening light

Mira Cameron

It goes like this

Lexi Clidienst

For the Rage Against the Machine T-Shirt I Loaned Broc S. in 10th Grade Wood Shop

Sarah Carson

Notes on Possums

Jon Lemay

Dome

Naama

Theory and Craft of Poetry: A Drinking Game

Kenny Mitchell

Since My Father Died

L.P. Patterson

Exit Strategy

Alex Tronson

Droning

Noah Isherwood

We Knew It Was the Fitzroy's Rabbit

Sara Hills

ALWAYS LOVED A GOOD LIST POEM

Rogan Kelly

Revlon Rum Raisin

Raja’a Khalid

Crab, Deconstructed

Samantha Ryan

Clumsy

Frank Jackson

NULLIPAROUS (PFP)

Chiara Di Lello

A Simple, No Fuss Ceviche Recipe As Told Through Texts From My Mother

Julien Perez

MAELSTROM

Ivi Hua

3 Stories I Wrote After Reading Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams

md wheatley

93°F in Chicago on Autumn Equinox

Jacqui Zeng

99 ways to say i love you while texting with one hand

Zoe Reay-Ellers

It's The Same Sky But

Shawnte Orion

A Scene from a Movie Playing in the Background of Another Movie

Matthew Robinson

I Got 99 Problems and Here They All Are

Skylar Camp

Breakup Story

Michelle Ross

They Found a Beer Bottle at the Bottom of the Mariana Trench

Catherine Weiss

_ _ _ _ _

Eric Boyd

To the Man Seated Next to Us at This Basketball Game

Melissa Fite Johnson

I’ve Got 99 Problems, and Here Are Some

Rebecca Long

Little Shames

Megan Williams

Grief is a K-Drama playing on the TV in another room

Sylvia Santiago

Ideas and Images

Zac Smith

The Devil is in the Details

Lexi Kent-Monning

Your Lips, They’re Smoldering

René Bennett

Roy

Emma Tuomi

Buff Son

Jack Kelly

Co-op cigar

Sheldon Birnie

Potato of Luck

Bodhi Jet Atkinson

Lunch Service

Jordan Gisselbrecht

Ode to Queer Slushfest

Hanna Webster

Blockchain

Julián Martinez

The Worst Interview Question

Delaney S. Saul

journal (take #23)

nat raum

Four Pastrami Sandwiches

Steve Gergley

Welcome to the Solar System, Mrs. Black Hole

Travis Flatt

Tonsillolith

Taylor Hebert

The Day the Dad Jokes Died

Jordan Hamel

No More Blind Dates at Human Pupusa Joints

Xavier Garcia

Flagrant / Fragrant 香

Tiff M. Z. Lee

Silver Bells

Kate Catinella

My Best Friend

Sebastian Boensch

Out of Order

Benjamin Niespodziany

I lie and say that I believe in god,

Emma de Blois

American Folklore

Connor Harding

I Think Chris McCandless Would've Called Me Fat in High School

Jessika Bouvier

Magpie

Bernard Cohen

The Blind Faith Hotel

Parker Logan

The Unexorcist

Barlow Adams

A Story in Which Something Happens

Hannah Smart

The Life of Pablo

Julián Martinez

Placing in a Competition

Ewen Glass

Emily Dickinsoning in my mother’s attic while Taylor Swift puts out another album, down the street

Frederica Morgan Davis

Telling the Truth

Amber Nuyens

In New York, I call my mother who is living

Emily Chang

Basil

Carrie Cook

In This Story

Gary Barwin

On Opening the Body of a Skull

Kyla Guimaraes

Skipping Stones

Matt Nõmme

How To Not Think About Death

Sarah Chin

IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LIFE, A MEADOW

Emily Adams-Aucoin

Hide & Seek

Jonathan Danielson

Star Search

Alicia Rebecca Myers

Unfounded Validation at the Warby Parker on Main Street

Debbie Feit

THROWING ROCKS

Adam Shaw

Lakewater

Wheeler Light

Matthew E. Henry of Ohio

Matthew E. Henry

Tal’s Hill

Justin Carter

Fantasy

Katie Baughman

Ingurgitate

Steve Gergley

THE FIRST SNAKE TO CRAWL THROUGH THE EYE SOCKET OF A HUMAN SKULL

Martyn Pedler

Impact

Mario Aliberto III

Faces

Sarah Mills

2 Poems

Jennifer Fischer Davis

It Could Have Been a Moose

Salena Casha

They Shoot Horse Girls, Don’t They?

Hattie Jean Hayes

How to Pick a Perfectly Ripe Watermelon After Accidentally Ingesting Too Many Edibles

Richie Zaborowske

Eyepatch Story

Ellen Harrold

Dyscalculia

Jordan Alejandro Rivera

Some things I’ve hidden in my skull and eventually lost in the darkness of it

Daniel DeRock

ONE LAST POEM FOR LOULOU

MICHAEL CHANG

after Divine, who said filth was her life,

Romy Rhoads Ewing

My Past

Rene Mullen

RABBIT

Suze Kay

REDGREEN AND VIOLET-YELLOW RHYTHMS

Tom Snarsky

The Bell Ringer

Catherine Roberts

Hxw tx build a mxuntain

Corey Miller

The Healing Process

Aubri Kaufman

My Folk’s Lore

Terri Linn Davis

Pyramids

Angelo Maneage

Daniel

Don Television

THE TRUE WHEEL

Mike Topp

An Exercise in Drowning

Charlie Clateman

Female Houdini

Rebecca Grace Cyr

Audience

Lamb

Tom Rothenwander

Z.H. Gill

Joey From Next Door

Kyle Seibel

Philip J Dick

Parker Young

Local Flavor

Michael McSweeney

That's Rock 'N' Roll, Baby

Jonathan Danielson

Two Poems

Evan Nicholls

Stirred

Tom Snarsky

Silly Love Poems

Axel B. Kolcow

i left my skateboard in new york because i didn’t wanna pay spirit 60 bucks

md wheatley

Two poems

Todd Dillard

Hope

Riley Quinn Scott

Panopticon

Frances Klein

Two

Stefanie Kirby

Two

Benjamin Niespodziany

Three Rejections

Joe Aguilar

Exit Strategy

Claire Hopple

Starfish Wizard

Adrian Dallas Frandle

I’m Talking to the Man Wearing a T-Shirt That Says Everything Hurts because I Need to Tell You Something about My Marriage

Mitchell Nobis

Riding Around With Mike R.

David Rosenthal

The Business

Zac Smith

FWD THIS EMAIL TO 10 FRIENDS OR ELSE!!!!!!!

Daniel Miller

Wound Paint

WA Hawkins

What Happened?

Myles Zavelo

Now I know I don't love you anymore

Hannah Rice Berman

Relaxing on the Holodeck

Lindsay McDonald

Two Poems

Kristin Gustafson

The Papermoon

Joel Hans

Trying to Write a Poem Inspired by Nicole Tallman’s FERSACE

Alex Carrigan

Steve the Punk on Night Shift Was Fired Earlier Today

Joshua Hebburn

At the tone, please record your message.

Emma Li

Soundtrack

Melissa Fite Johnson

David Bowie Takes a Commercial Space Flight

Simon Jacobs

Good Neighbors

Cody Shrum

The floor beneath my feet

Swetha Amit

Hi, I'm sorry to keep missing you

Diana Cao

Always Dance at Weddings

Richie Zaborowske

Lessons Learned from Small Talk and Basketball

Steven Barker

Donate Today!

Sam Milligan

My Mom Calls to Start Beef with Veronica Mars' Messenger Bag

Luke Larkin

“This Is About as Social as I Get Now” Concert Tee

Ashley Kirkland

We’re not in Kansas anymore (we’re in Ulta)”

Billie Sainwood

The 5 Ws on a Compass

Mitchell Nobis

We’ve Been Trying to Reach You About Your Vehicle’s Extended Warranty

Jessica Dawn

Roaming Charges

Annie Marhefka

Maybe the Water Authority Is Hiring

Abigail Myers

I Spend A Lot of Time Thinking About My Kidney These Days

L. Andrew Huffman

Electrocution for Kids

Benjamin Drevlow

How to Fall

Amy Strong

Guinea Pigs Aren’t Dumb

Nick Ekkizogloy

One Side of a Phone Conversation With My Guardian Angel

Tom Snarsky

Spacey Stacy

Brenda Klingenmaier

Ten laps for being stupid

Kirsti MacKenzie

Bell Rung

Andrew Belfry

Nobody prepares you for the fact that getting diagnosed with ADHD feels like failing

Zoe Reay-Ellers

Goodwomen

Maslen Bode Ward

Weasel Words

Austin Ross

SHHHHHH!

Corey Miller

Van Surfing

Will Musgrove

Ants! Ants! Ants!

Owen Paul Edwards

Coach

Taylor Franson-Thiel

HE WORSHIPS BON IVER SO MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

Hanna Webster

Terry

Steve Gergley

win some / lose some

Olivia Braley

WHY YOU SHOULD BE THE DRUM MAJOR IN A COLLEGIATE MARCHING BAND

Ella Wisniewski

Publish this, I dare you

Rebecca Long

Google Alerts

Todd Dillard

All Beef

Emily Myles

3 poems bc I clicked, clicked, and clicked once more

Jordan Alejandro Rivera

on i-80 east to winnemucca, where i tell you about how plato should have beaten the shit out of that other guy

Romy Rhoads Ewing

Spock Fives

Kirsti MacKenzie

A choose your own adventure where all the choices have already been chosen for you [*]

Sean Cho A.

Mouth Of Grief, Grinning

Andrew Walker

Driving a Dead Woman’s BMW in the Dark

Angela Janda

Alt Text on a Series of Recently Unearthed Photos of John Lennon

John Waddy Bullion

Goat Balls

Julián Martinez

The Camera Cuts

Erin See

Tog(ether)

Bethany Cutkomp

If Heaven Is Real And The Number Of People Is Finite

Luke Strathmann

Poems No One Wanted To Publish Written In The Friends Episode Naming Convention

Ross McCleary

A Very Short Story

Ella Duffy

400,000 LAWNS

Elijah Sparkman

Lambie

Michaela Brown

Brag 2.0 or Trying to One-up Jack Collum, 1967

Joe Grantham

Self-Portrait in Things My Sisters Told Me Not to Do, but I Did Anyway

M.R. Mandell

The god of my small intestine

KT Herr

In Our Dream Home

Kevin Breen

Places I Left My Heart

Georgia Hertz

No Medical Precedent

Thad DeVassie

Two Love Poems

Lana Storey

Funhouse

Melissa Fitzpatrick

Say We Could Have Maybe

Jessica Gilkison

POEM IN WHICH NICK HELPS ME CONJURE MORE “IN WHICH” POEMS

Denise Duhamel

Ain’t Nothing to Fuck With

Derek JG Williams

The Consequences of a Growing Family

Bethany Jarmul

Teaching a Young David Petraeus about War

Adam Straus

I WATCH THE INCREDIBLES, AT 4:30AM, KIND OF HIGH ON GRAPE COUGH SYRUP

Gabrielle McAree

A Big Bowl of Beer

Robert Criss

But You Won’t Forget Me

Lucy Hayes

You (a Lady)

Sarah Bradley

Transplant Diaries #3

Allison Plourde

Have You Heard the One About Pierre Menard and Bollywood?

Utkarsh Adhrit

Modern Art

Joshua Zeitler

2 poems

Ian Flatman

Cloudbusting

Kalyn Livernois

fairy tales & western medicine

Margaret Adams

midnight special

Rick Wade

When I Tell You the Taco Bell Is Haunted Now

Erin Keane

Two Poems

Trey Moody

Let Me Explain Fight Club to You

Miriam McEwen

Found Footage of a Squirrel Eating a Walnut

Katie Baughman

Specializing in Therapy for Clowns

Susan Barry-Schulz

I’ll Miss Your Farts

Phil Goldstein

The dog sees the bird

Jo Gatford

Two Poems

Ewen Glass

sir gawain & the green knight (redo)

daniel joseph

Two Girls

Skyler Melnick

Why I Broke the Seal on Prohibition-Era Whiskey Stashed in the Attic Staircase

Elizabeth Fletcher

When I Play the New York Times Daily Puzzle

Sarah Carson

Elevator Pitch #23

Laura Grant

2 BoJack Poems

Misha Tentser

The Existential Horror of 156 T Shots

Maddox Emory Arnold

Battle of the Network Stars (ABC 1976-1985) or How Little Bobby Discovered He Was Gay

Rob Williams

Before, During and After My Netflix and Chill Era

Melissa Flores Anderson

Critical Theory

Matthew Thomas Bernell

I’ve Killed Caesar, Like, a Million Times

Ashley Kirkland

you don't understand me at all

DJ Wolfinsohn

The Wheels on the Bus

Bill Merklee

Terry the Desert Tortoise

Adam Straus

We Took the Same Route Home From School Every Day

Ronnie K. Stephens

Good Veins

Olivia Wolford

The Condition of Music

Margaret Ray

Patron Saint of Teenage Socialists

Hanni Salata

taiwan, moving out day

Emily O Liu

Valedictorian

Matthew Mastricova

Who got what?

Glenn Orgias

Grade 7, 1999 - Catholic School
B-Side

Amy E. Casey

Flavor Flav

Julián Martinez

Villanelle for my Villain Era

Jake Phillips

Michelle, I’m Sorry I Killed Your Tamagotchi

Chelsea Bouchard

The Year Marc Summers Died in a Tsunami

Brendan Gillen

Alternative Mnemonic Devices To Help Set Your Clock For Daylight Savings

Kevin Lutz

The Beast

Michael McSweeney

two cars crash

Tyler McAndrew

Father's Daughter's Baby

Teal Ivy Hall

Dolphin Linguistics

Nam Hoang Tran

Belly Bumps

Andrew Maynard

Life told me to eat a bag of dicks

Elizabeth Reames

Some Movie Reviews

John Pinto

3 poems?????

Alannah Guevara

Tolstoy

Joshua Hebburn

This Memory is Mine

Joshua Trent Brown

three poems

Catherine Weiss

12 poems

md wheatley

2 poems about bugs

Natalie Warther

Three Poems

Tom Snarsky

Erasure Poem for Intrusive Recall from Shawn Michaels’ “Who’s Your Daddy, Montreal?”

Josh Shepard

Be Nice, You Never Know What Other People Are Going Through

Troy James Weaver

I Hate Paw Patrol

Zac Smith

50 Words for Nostalgia

Daniel Miller

Big Anniversary

Adam Voith

HAD Skull Cap Review

Richie Zaborowske

1991, Take Me Back

Holly Pelesky

Dropkick My Heart

Barrett Bowlin

Dogs

Pat Jameson

The Best Movies Streaming This Month on HBO*

Jason Bentsman

Baby Albatross

Kevin Maloney

Roller Coaster House

Kyle Seibel

This Ad Brought to You by the Law Offices of Wentz, Madden, Madden, and Durst

Frances Klein

A Crackdown at the Bird Yard

Sam Berman

No Honey, No Gods, No Masters

AJ O'Reilly

Some facts about heavy metal

Calvin Westra

I Am A Law Enforcement Officer Played By Tommy Lee Jones And The Thing I Would Love Most Is If Someone On My Dang Team Could Just Tell Me What In The Hell Is Going On Here

Jesse Raub

Loser

WA Hawkins

I’ve been in Wisconsin since Sunday and I’ve already been hit on at Culver’s

Kerri Seyfert

Blood Bread

Daisy Cashin

A Flash of Something Else

Leo Vartorella

Saab Story

Jocelyn Jane Cox

Carry Me

Keegan Gore

Staircase

Adam Gianforcaro

I keep making lists I forget to read

CJ Fogel

The Code

Tyler Barton

Three Awkward Poems

Andrea Krause

There Are Too Many Ways to Tell the Same Story

Carly Kaste

Come On Down

Will Musgrove

There Are No Mermaids

Lilly Ashton

Like Snow in the Sun

G. R. Bilodeau

Two Poems

Shuly Xóchitl Cawood

Greetings from La Grange, Missouri!

Avery Gregurich

The Mystic of Waffle House

Lauren Parker

Mad Science

Scott Garson

Meditation on an Old Grocery List

Shiyang Su

And They Don’t Stop Coming: A Decaying Shrekstina

Kristin Gustafson

Hoops

Jeanine Walker

Fleeting & Transformative Tenure as the Auto-Insurance Mascot

Tom Kelly

Barry, 37 (📍3900ft) dates out of his league

Kirsti MacKenzie

Polly Pocket Planned Parenthood

Alison L. Fraser

Sometimes One Half is Bigger than the Other

Flávia Monteiro

The Vignettes

Giulia Bencivenga Schneiderman

Ode to Poppers

Sappho Stanley

Running the Scales

Richie Zaborowske

To the Kid Whacking Metal Pipes Against the Side of My Apartment Building at Six in the Goddamned Morning

Wyatt Mischler

Bus Stop

Sofie Wise

What it smelled like, after all that

Tara Campbell

Ouija

Bobby Bangert

Pasiphaë

Bex Hainsworth

Thank You! Have a Nice Day!

Claire Hopple

Taste of Hot Chocolate

Swetha Amit

Musk Sweet

Jill Kitchen

Self-Portrait in the Key of Masc

Natalie Schriefer

It Was the Year

Jo(ely) Fitch

Bright Lights / Midnight

Melissa Fite Johnson

Driving Out of New Hampshire, New Year’s Day

Jon Lemay

Christmas, 1987

H. A. Eugene

I Once Snorted an Eight Ball with Santa

Richie Zaborowske

Not Me Being a Pick Me Girl, Surely !! & Maybe If You Let Me Hear You Do That Again, I Can Immortalize You Just Right

Lexi Rosen

Bourbon in a Santa Mug

Mitchell Nobis

George Washington’s Nightmare

Eliot S. Ku

In My Dreams I Bake a Croquembouche for Christmas 

Megan Williams

Two Christmas Carols

Shane Kowalski

The Chanukah Shelf

Gail Bello

A Joke, a Punchline, and a Metaphor Walk into Three Different Menorahs

Danny Caine

The Pit Behind Uncle's Place

Connor Harding

The Feeling Might Not Come Back

Emily Delaney

Get It Out, Autopsy

Roman Bobek

The Smell Will Say You Existed

Gessica Sakamoto Martini

Till

Robert Warf

Spice, and Who Am I to Keep You Down?

Matthew Murrey

Red Ford

Keri Miller

Five Little Ones

Cletus Crow

Senses

Griffin Rockwell

cloth monkey, wire monkey

DJ Wolfinsohn

Cake

Bill Hollands

The Gold Doughnut

Steve Gergley

ABECEDARIAN BEGINNING WITH THE APPLE VISUALIZATION TEST AND ENDING WITH MY FIRST MISTAKE

Angela Janda

To hear the germs move

Dimitri Ha

ODE TO TOES

Aloka Mahadurage

Hero’s Journey (I’m Hero)

Lee Schulder

Greystone Recon

A. E. Weisgerber

THE MAN WHO DROPPED ME AS A BABY ASKS FOR MONEY

Lamb

On Grief and Lobsters

Savannah DiGregorio

What We Wanted

Melissa Darcey Hall

Did you get what you wanted from this Wendy’s, even so?

Hannah Rose Roberts

Decoy

Tayler Butters

Did You Know How Stressful Life Would Be?

Paula Gil-Ordoñez Gomez

Initiation

S. Preston Duncan

April 2020, From My Windows

Kleopatra Olympiou

Bones

Jacque Gorelick

What’s left

Carlos A. Pittella

History

Lindz McLeod

MY UBER DRIVER DOESN’T KNOW I’M TRANSmasc

Syd Vinyard

Seasons in Hell with Frosted Tips Loverboy

Jackie Sabbagh

The Flamingo

Joel Hans

Annotated Bibliography

Margaret Roach

A Text Message to a Girl I Met on a Dating App Who Asked if She Could Come Over to My Place Tonight

Courtney Pasko

At the Dentist Playing Street Fighter III

Caleb Bethea

Elegy for a Captive Bear

Sam Stebbins

Everyone Rise, the Gavel's Coming Down

Mary Biddinger

Surplus Value

Matt Quinn

Big Jesus

Bodie Fox

Two Happy Nightmares

Seth Wade

Prose poem

Tom Snarsky

Shithead, Take My Hand

Richie Zaborowske

Shachihoko

Amber Adams

Two Poems At Least Tangentially about Meat

Danny Caine

Subtropics

Travis Dahlke

The Professor Tries Eating Only Raw Meat

Lauren Hunt

Lights Out

Miel MacRae

Everything sounds different on Halloween

Hilesh Patel

Giant Squid

Sean Casey

The Devil Tree

Max Zell

Goosebumps Theory for Trans Girls

Angel Leal

Two Erasures

Tyler McAndrew

Antikythera Mechanism Bong Rips

Matthew Dexter

Two Transformations

C. C. Rayne

The Day before Grandma Stops Milking for the Dead

Gessica Sakamoto Martini

I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon

Jennessa Hester

Friendly?

Luke Strathmann

People Just Aren’t Scared of Ventriloquist Dummies Anymore

Will Musgrove

3 Hauntings

Adrian Dallas Frandle

Promise Me You Won’t Leave A Drop

Sasha Brown

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER: THE POWERPUFF GIRLS

Ryleigh Wann & McKenzie Teter

Wikihow for Sainthood

Elena Sichrovsky

קײן עין־הרע

Eloise Schultz

2 Poems

Sarah Mills

Barbie walked on the moon four years before Neil Armstrong

Ashley Varela

Once Upon a Time

Tyler McAndrew

Workplace Training on Getting Ready for Work on a Quiet Summer Morning

Devon Neal

Stuck in this Mad, Mad-Libbed
______

Shaw Patton

Smarts

Sarp Sozdinler

Our Hammer Daughter

Steve Gergley

Neo Insists Agent Smith Call Him By the Right Name

Griffin Rockwell

But Then I Remember What Mark Wahlberg Said About If He’d Been on The Plane

Joshua Trent Brown

In Those Insurance Commercials, the Joke is That Caring Too Much About Parking Is a Sign of Middle Age

Amorak Huey

We Should Do This Again

Abby Manzella

Self Portrait as an Order at the Delicatessen

Jared Beloff

FAQ - My Clockwork Alligator Bit Off My Hand

D.K. Lawhorn

I Want to Burn the Years

C. Heyne

Upgrade

Amy DeBellis

Dear Maggie Smith:

Angela Janda

I Think You Should Stay

Julián Martinez

Explain

Justin Carter

Vessel

Emily Costa

On Wednesday I Get Ashes at the Drive-Thru

Katelyn Botsford Tucker

How To Lie On Your Back Underwater And Not Drown Your Fool Self

Leah Tuckwiller

The Day Ends. The Day Ends. The Day Ends.

Shira Haus

And if this is where you live, welcome home

Kelsey Lepperd

After Saying John Ashbery’s Poetry Is Like Getting Out of a Bath When It’s Still Warm, And My Workshop Instructor Laughs and Tells Us He’s Going to Tell His Friend I Said That, Repeating What I Said in a Lower Voice, Not Like “John Ashbery’s Poetry Is Like Getting Out of a Bath When It’s Still Warm” but More Like “John Ashbery’s poetry is like getting out of a bath when it’s still warm” Because People Don’t Normally Talk in Capitals, and Did Y’all Know I Visited the Capitol in Fifth Grade on a School Field Trip as a “Safety Patrol,” Back When I Didn’t Know the Responsibilities Behind Patrolling a School, Before An Intoxicated Man Intruded My High School Last Year and the School Cop, on Their First Day, Didn’t Know What to Do, so the Local Cops Shot the Intruder in the Same Building I Was in

Caitlin Villacrusis

Galatea

Kim Magowan

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in My Recipe for Easy, Country-Style French Toast

Catherine Davis

Love Poem in Which I Do Not Move to Ohio

Anna Chotlos

In the hours before the errant chunk of asteroid crashed into our planet

Rachel Abbey McCafferty

This Is How You Lose a Heart

Ada Pelonia

Zirconium

Ashley Bach

Another Poem About Nostalgia & Misunderstandings & Growing Up & All the Other Same Ol’ Everything

Aaron Burch

Seeds

Natalia Claas

IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE BUT SOMETIMES IT IS

jessie knoles

The Algorithm Practices Self-Care

Pedro Ponce

Orpheus Looks Back

Heather Talty

Excerpts from a Google Doc in which I write letters to my married ex-boyfriend

Kennedy Coyne

The First Girls

James R. Gapinski

post-lobotomy dreams

Mallory Payne

Body in a Box

Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Old Dogs

Marta Regn

An Actually Really Joyful Poem

Sean Cho A.

Manifesting

Donna Vorreyer

Rough Draft

Annie Marhefka

you’re a beautiful boy and that’s about it

Brenna Hagan

Kópakonan

Veronica Shore

I Saw Goody Proctor and Goody Proctor with the Devil and the Devil

Becky Robison

My Boyfriend Fell Down the Rabbit Hole

Mileva Anastasiadou

The Last Beautiful Thing

Francesca Leader

Lack On

Yasi Salek

The Invention of Life

LHC

Come Down Off My Throne, Don’t Leave Your Body Alone

Elissa Field

Nephology

Mathieu Cailler

We Never Got to Watch Carol Brady Grow Older

Abby Alten Schwartz

willingly

Juls Macdonell

Seeds

Amy DeBellis

Let’s Pretend This Is Normal Until Someone Does Something We Can’t Ignore Anymore and We Need to File Paperwork

Salena Casha

Apron Strings

Christina Rosso

Sunbathers

Sutton Strother

Elegant Helen the Undying

Adrian Dallas Frandle

Calamity Jane Learns the Difference Between Bravery and Stupidity

Sara Potocsny

2 Poems

Portlyn Houghton-Harjo

2 X-Files Poems

Samia Saliba

The Lariat Lassoed Skyward

Josh Shepard

Moon Mining Gains Momentum

Katie Myers

watch this space!

Jess Gallerie

Space Stray’s Ode to Home Planet

Elise Thi Tran

Cupid, Frontiersman

June Villers

triple triptych re: rodeo clowns

Blake Levario

THERE WILL BE KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE

Mallory Payne

Final Frontier

Diana Cao

You Can Make Me Whole Again

Elena Zhang

possession

Jill Kitchen

Lightbringers

Ori Fienberg

2 Poems

Ruby Rorty

Bedtime Story

Josh Lefkowitz

2 Shorts

Nellie Diamantopoulou

Perception is a Prison or Whatever Foucault Said

Max Gillette

My aunt left me her teeth in her will

Kelsey Fuson

Forced Rhubarb

Tom Snarsky

MONOMYTH

Rita Feinstein

Industry

william erickson

Caged Freak

EJ Croll

Hell with Handbasket

Stefanie Kirby

In the Saloon of Kindness

Shane Kowalski

All the Other Rogers

David Luntz

True on Two Ships

James Jacob Hatfield

5 ‘Actually’ Poems

Evan Nicholls

A Cross-Section of Reactions to Judy Garland Pausing Her Carnegie Hall Show to Chug a Glass of Water, 1961

John Waddy Bullion

3 poems

Danny Caine

Barbie at the Bottom of the Sea

Hazelle Lerum

Re-entry

Marguerite Sheffer

Hit Him with It

Niles Baldwin

Jesus is Just Alright

Katy Haas

from "When we look at things we steal their color and grow heavy under their weight"

Mike Bagwell

excerpts from LONG

Hannah Lamb-Vines

MARY THE ASIAN ELEPHANT, DEAD AT 59

Graham Irvin

2 explosive poems

Alex Tretbar

At the Motel with the Heart-shaped Bed

Leone Brander

Don’t look at me I love you

C. Heyne

A Stinger! a Lover! a Hot Insect Eulogy!

Emily Tracy

Love Is a Selkie Who Will Leave You Eventually

K.S. Dyal

it’s been a summer of serial killers and they don’t know how to fuck

alexis briscuso

The Fictosexual Crowd

Caleb Bethea

Collage of the Future

Madeleine Crum

HOPE IT’S OKAY IF I LOVE JUST ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD MORE THAN ANY OTHER

Roblin Meeks

Daisy Womb

Sappho Stanley

Friedrich Nietzsche Discovers My Femboy Hypnosis Videos

Seth Wade

What I Discovered before our Wedding Day

Conan Tan

I Thought the Ex-Wives Would Be Nicer

Kristin Sanders

The Definition Of A Love Poem

Lindz McLeod

The Probability Of Loving An Upper Level Statistics Course (And You)

Jessica Hsu

What I Think About When We Pick Strawberries

Isabella Jetten

Lovers

Aiden Heung

The Piss Artist

Abby Feden

Skoosh

Travis Flatt

Ode to the Woman Who Had a “Loud Full Body Orgasm” While the L.A. Philharmonic Played Tchaikovsky’s 5th 

Abigail Raley

Figs

Lukas Tallent

Louis - In Memoriam

Brittany Menjivar

Suffering Through the Eyes of a Kaleidoscope

Kenny Mitchell

She said to go with god

Adia Micah Muhammad

Why We Played in the Murder Swamp

Keith Powell

2 Poems

Kimberly Ann Southwick

Open Letter to the People of My Hometown

Hanni Salata

So many men I’ve tried hard to forget and you’ll become one of them but for now I’m trying to remember

Kelsi Lindus

Oh, Canada

Marnie Bullock Dresser

Epithalamium that Refuses to Ignore the Possibility of a Zombie Apocalypse

Matthew Olzmann

Meghans

Meghan Phillips

Saginaw Summer

Katy Haas

The Canaries

Isaac George Lauritsen

sister of pentacles

Karah Kemmerly

Meet Me In the North Parking Lot After School

Zane Barrow

Things I want to ask you about White Knighting

Michelle Wirth & Austin Brady

When the Hand of the Universe of the Universe Reaches Down and Turns you in the Right Direction

Julie Alden Cullinane

Peanut Butter

Katie Nieland

a haiku about the sun and the moon and my wife and my daughter and driving in a car and running off little sleep

md wheatley

ENCLOSURE

Carolyn Supinka

Street View

Olivia Fredricks

Not A Dream

Amos Leager

Have You Seen the Moon?

Hailey Siracky

Secret

Eliza Harris

On A Hill Avoiding Shade

Nikita Ladd

LOCAL ART GALLERY HIRING NOW !! SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS !

Meg Lubey

Warhol

Silas Jones

Mass

Travis Dahlke

Sportsmanship

Angelo Maneage

Snow Leopard

Laura Catherine Brown

All That Wanting, Right?

Devin Kelly

A Wish For Different Is A Wish For the Same

Jeff Whitney

word of the month: vulnerable

Emily O Liu

Grindr

Seth Wade

Free Sandwiches

E. Nolan

9 Lives Before Saturday

Kelsey Lepperd

Burning Building

Stephen Andrews

Identity verification questions for the 21st century 

Lu Han

In Loving Memory of Logan Roy

Graham L. Bishop

Since the New Year

Paula Gil-Ordoñez Gomez

Blood Pressure Check in 5-Minute Intervals

Aarik Danielsen

Greenland

Kyle Seamus Brosnihan

I become a geologist 

Aileen O’Dowd

Goofus and Goofus

Luke Burns

Moss

José Felipe Ozuna

I Was Not Prepared for This Val Kilmer Documentary

Melissa Fite Johnson

Corporate

Remy Barnes

THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE IN WHICH I HAVE ASKED YOU TO LEAVE ME AND YOU DO HAS BLOWN UP IN SPACE AND I CANNOT FIND IT

C. Heyne

In The Food Court Where The Tables Are Shaped Like Convertibles

J.M. Lyons

YOUR ABOVE-AVERAGE CREDIT SCORE OFFERS YOU PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES. STAY ON TOP OF YOUR GAME TO HAVE THE BEST FINANCIAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO YOU.

Chloe Bryan

Life Plays Up on You, or, a Gary Payton Ars Poetica, or, Dream Shake the Ghosts

Mitchell Nobis

The Things We Don’t Say Are Plenty

Laura Cooney

A Pink Plastic Container in the Shape of a Tooth

Samantha Kimmey

To-Do List

Shannon Sullivan

3 Micros

Jeffrey Hermann

Delayed Echolalia (what I said on the phone was plagiarism)

Jessica Jordan-Wrench

Awkward Silence

Madeline Graham

The Child Inside of Me

Devin Kelly

i keep a list in my phone of all the things i wish i could tell you, like

Kristen Zory King

I’m a Leo, Baby

Susan Robertson

Math Final for Gemini

Ben Kline

Thirteen

Angel Rosen

What Is Your Sign?

J.D. Isip

A Better Sign

Nellie Diamantopoulou

Friday, I’m in Love

S. Fey

My Grindr Whorescope predicts

Adrian Dallas Frandle

My Students Read My Chart to Me

Melissa Fite Johnson

With all due respect to Kris Kristofferson, Jesus was a Leo

Paula Turcotte

REVERSION II

Sarp Sozdinler

Aries Season

Frances Klein

My boyfriend doesn’t want to be a Scorpio.

Ashley Varela

Track 1: Promised Land

Laurie Filipelli

Abstraction

Benjamin Niespodziany

poems with ouija board starring THE FUTURE and NOT SEEN

Nicole Tallman

Borderspell

Carlos A. Pittella

Curse of the Wolf Double Feature

Cassandra Whitaker

Siegrist Plays Dead

Will Finlayson

We, the Sisters Who Live Upstate

Mike McClelland

Same As It Ever Was

Andrew Walker

Manifest

Lyndsie Manusos

misty eyed woman at the carnival tells me i’m april’s fool

Lemmy Ya’akova

Nicole Country

Travis Dahlke

Red Vision

Kathryn Kulpa

Leaving a Sexy Corpse

Evan Nicholls

Chandelier (2014)

Alex Napier

Fuckability

Shane Kowalski

Overstory

Lindz McLeod

The Bureau of Ghosts

Lucas Jorgensen

Bloodloam Saltwater Curse

Adrian Dallas Frandle

little excerpt from a novella i said i'd write in a week and months later i'm still not finished

Alice M.

SANDWICH

Kira K. Homsher

The Mouse

Daniel Miller

Palmer’s Stance

Teddy Engs

I’ve been working on this story

Jake McAuliffe

Myself and Others

Jacob Weber Moore

The Angel Gabriel is on a Mission

Frances Klein

Unseasonable (Another Poem About Either Sex or Climate Change Because Like Everyone Else Poets Always Want to Have Things Both Ways Which Is Kind of the Problem)

Amorak Huey

Psychological Evaluation upon the Woolly Mammoth’s Discharge

Zoie Mull

All I Need To Live Is 7 Lives

Kara Q. Rea

Onsen

Eliot Li

Hunger

Michelle Hulan

5 HAIKUISH

H. A. Sappho

IF I CALLED WOULD YOU SWALLOW THE WATER I’M TREADING

Scout Faller

trans extinction

luna rey hall

Two Poems

Hannah Lamb-Vines

Five Poems

Sofie Wise

confidence

alexis briscuso

Sake

Lacey Cohen

A Walk in Nature

Kate Greene

FOR ME LOVE IS SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL AND PURE NOT DIZGUZTING!!!!!!!

Felix Lecocq

bio

Emory Brinson

Elective Surgery

Jesse Bradley-Amore

SHITTY LITTLE MIRACLES

Caleb Bethea

ode to god (or a piece of her)

Adelina Sarkisyan

How Little We Knew Each Other

Julián Martinez

pantoum for blonde

Leela Raj-Sankar

the little death

Ashanti Renee

Resting Street Face, or All Dogs Go to Heaven

Judith Osilé Ohikuare

The Emmy Belongs to February

Khadjiah Johnson

A Kindness

Alice Agro-Paulson

The prophecy unswaddled

Tara Campbell

Gutters from “The | Rubies”

Tyler Barton

GIRLFRIEND

Matilda Lin Berke

Writing Fiction

Parker Young

Wes

Steve Gergley

“Grenadine. Tangerine. Trampoline.”

Nora Maynard

The Edible Part (or the Bottom Half of a Cut-Up Strawberry)

James Jacob Hatfield

Inflection

Francis Yasha

B side

Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo

The Mushroom Inspector

Rick Claypool

You and Sometimes I

James Butler-Gruett

2 Comics

Denny Connolly

Who am I, When You’re Not Looking?

K.Blair

Ignis Fatuus

Alex Tretbar

And Welcome to Jackass

Richie Zaborowske

the night that italian boy from long island kissed me over the bloodcurdling chorus of blissful screams of the texas chain saw massacre

alexis briscuso

Two Hundred CPR Dummies Lying ‘Cross the Outfield

John Pinto

Mercy On The Little King

Mordecai Martin

Pete Davidson #1

Kate Shapiro

Band-Aid

Z.H. Gill

2 Poems

Todd Dillard

Free Range Poets

Jordan Hamel

When People Stop Being Polite

Andrew Maynard

Fancy seeing you here

Annie Marhefka

In the Parking Lot After Couples Therapy

Madeline Graham

Clarity

Adam Shaw

Broken Record

Wyatt Bonikowski

The Bad Friend

Joshua Hebburn

The Last Time I Saw The Sea

Alexis Lee

Like the Supermarket Scene in The Hurt Locker, Except Not

T.L. States

My Grandfather After 40 Years Sober Asks Me to Pour Him a Drink

Richie Zaborowske

Liam Neeson vs Denzel Washington vs My Dad

MC Barnes

Don’t Get in Deep with the Puppeteer Equivalent of the Illuminati

Joseph Edwin Haeger

I Forgot What Rain Looks Like

Lacey Cohen

When I came to

Jamie Iredell

hypnosis as sex work as exposure therapy

Andrew Ketcham

waxing plastic moon

Lisa Cantwell

The Courtyard

Drew Buxton

After Last Call

Will Musgrove

Fluff

Alex Tretbar

DEAR NEIGHBORS OF VIA ANTONIO BENNICELLI ##

Shon Mapp

AT THE CLUB HE ASKS IF YOU WANT TO DANCE AND YOU SAY, NO THANKS, BUT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR MY NEW POEM, I CALL IT OCEAN OF FIRE

Irene Cooper

THINGS MY EYES WOULD SCREAM IF I GOT KIDNAPPED

ANDREA KRAUSE

HANDS

Jesse Lee Kercheval

CIRCUIT-CIRCUIT-CIRCUIT

Thomas Hobohm

(NOT WITH A WHISPER BUT WITH A)

Sara Aultman

BAR SONNET

Max Delsohn

HAVE YOU HEARD?

Joseph Edwin Haeger

MY THERAPIST AND I ARE DOING TRAUMA WORK

Vivian Holland

Catnap

Nick Perilli

In the Fields of Everyday

Scott Mitchel May

New Year’s Kiss

Jacob Ginsberg

A brief-but-seemingly-long-moment when we are on the phone. It is snowing outside. I am staring at the snow. Idk what you are looking at but we are running out of things to talk about.

Sean Cho A.

Winter

Nicole Tallman

Scaring The Monster Back Into The Ocean

Eliot Li

The Necklaces

Steve Norris

All the Children Around the World

Jessica Klimesh

Backstage at Bing Crosby’s Merrie Old Christmas Show, 1977

John Waddy Bullion

Mass

Rose Jean Bostwick

Mother Announces the Ugly Sweater Theme for Our Christmas Party and Hands Me a List of What I Can’t Eat

Mikki Aronoff

If Tom Waits Wrote the Titanic Theme

Caleb Bethea

early twenties, apocalypse lover

Emily Tracy

two friends at ocean beach worried over a wounded bird

Seth Leeper

schrodinger’s kitten

PEEKTEA

ménage

Andrew Ketcham

Rebuilding Fire

Mitchell Nobis

Swamp Thing Finds Himself at the Crossroads of Science and Morality

Jack B. Bedell

Perhaps at a Coffeeshop or in Line at the Grocers

Danny Scheyer

Orange Night

Maya Sol Levy

milliways, table for one

Ashley Varela

Why Can’t We Have a Good Hanukkah Special?

Jared Beloff

2 Poems

Dare Williams

My Dad Threw Knives

Elizabeth Burch-Hudson

Obligations

John Chrostek

Home Sick

Alejandro Lucero

Pac-Man Eschatology

Adrian Dallas Frandle

Who is the Patron Saint of Growing Pains?

shelby rice

Swamp Thing Never Finished The Moviegoer But Knows Walker Percy Had a Few Things Figured Out

Jack B. Bedell

Without Measure

Kate Beall

Matter and Antimatter

Katie Manning

love/debt

Jake McAuliffe

Prayer in which I do not say manic pixie dream girl

Lily Holloway

The Shape of Sadness

Nicole Stockburger

Captain Ahab Speaks to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Through an Interpreter

Lucas Peel

Two Poems

Carmen Dolina

Western Handbook or the Cowperson's New Testament

Lexi Kent-Monning

Wheel of Fortune

Griffin Rockwell

After I Ran Over Jed

Teddy Engs

Just Another Tucson Night at the End of the World

T.L States

Five Things

Mike Topp

I Think We All Learned Something Tonight

Chelsea Stickle

Joyless Man

David Yourdon

Two Poems

Nicole Tallman

David Lynch’s Daily YouTube Weather Report for Sunday, January 1, 2023

Kip Knott

The Dads on TV Are Apologizing

Ioanna Mavrou

Pig

Cas Stone

How to Be a Mommy

Kennedy Coyne

Hurricane Party

Alex Gurtis

I write my best poems in my Notes app (a divorce backwards)

Brittney Uecker

Becoming Regulars at Beanvenidos Grill

Mike Itaya

A Virtual Existence

Margo Griffin

There's a Room Where the Light Won't Find You

Matt Mitchell

Hearing Aids

Janelle Cordero

First Law of Motion

Albert McFarland

Advice to My Younger Self

Elizabeth Hoover

the one about SmartWater®

Josh Lefkowitz

Shooting Skeet

Daniel Johnson

The night feels solid black and somewhere

Michelle Donahue

Mid-Life Assessment

Brian Builta

2 Poems

Christopher Lanyon

The Masterpiece

Matthew J. Andrews

The Rafters

Gina Thayer

The Ghost of Chris Payne

L.E. Pinto

Wet Grass

Bridget Shea

The Girl’s House at Night with Gasoline

Cole Phillips

11 Thoughts About Road House

Libby Cudmore

Arman Avasia

Arman Avasia

Benediction

William Woolfitt

skate

Jill Kitchen

He Kisses the Book and Begs, “Cleanse My Heart and Lips, Almighty God, So I May Worthily Proclaim the Gospel”

Greer McAllister

american glitter

Morgan Boyle

Ideas in 100 Words

Dan Melling

The Rat-Filled Chasm

Felix Lecocq

Why I Want to be 1990s Conan O’Brien

Will Musgrove

V—GER

Gabriela Denise Frank

NASA Unveils the First Image from the James Webb Space Telescope

Ecem Yucel

Something Amazing

Jennifer Wortman

2 Minion Poems

Julián Martinez

You crown Paul Shaffer’s head with mustard

Kirsti MacKenzie

god-sent punishments can be a blessing, rarely

Jesutomisin Ipinmoye

She’s My Winona

Elena Ender

Foreman - Frazier II

Jack B. Bedell

Summer Boyfriends

Emily Polson

I Want to Watch Degrassi with My Dead Dad

SG Huerta

Love Letter to Johnny Forza

Doug Paul Case

Are You My Mother?

Kerri Seyfert

Evergreen

Jim Ruland

Mid-morning voicemail update for my boyfriend who is at work

Emily Tracy

Ghosts Tell Human Stories

Jason Lee Norman

Explaining the Divorce to Our Dog

Olivia A. Cole

The shape of rapture

T. De Los Reyes

My Mother Visits the Psychic Before I Am Born

Alafia Nicole Sessions

Moist

Shirley Chan

hoes

Kevin Madrigal Galindo

from daddy to blocked;

Dior J. Stephens

You Wouldn't Steal a Car...

Hannah Wang

How to Get Fired From a Baby Sitting Job

Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

Group Portrait as Surinam Toad

Sylvia Santiago

The Story of the White Lady in Happy Homes

Cherry Lou Sy

Fucking During the Zapruder Film

Eros Livieratos

Rebound

Satya Dash

A sex poem that is actually about language and loss and probably shame.

Sean Cho A.

Alan

Dani Putney

Forbidden Fruit

Angie Kang

The Moment is Eternal not Ephemeral

Nathan Xie

Three Poems

Coleman Bomar

What if We Kissed on the FBI Most Wanted List

Frances Klein, Paul Kmitta, & Katy Haas

Girl

Yasmine Zohdi & Sara Elkamel

Please Call 1-800-MUR-DERS If You Know Anything

Benjamin Niespodziany, Evan Nicholls, & Evan Williams

Of Spuds and Stamens

Lauren Kardos & Rachel Schechtman

Poems from When the World Stopped Touching

Luisa Muradyan & Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

Don’t Trust Your Eyes

M. Scott Johnston & EJ Green

Postcard Stories

Ioanna Mavrou & Thodoris Tzalavras

Talk about the Weather

Michael Wheaton & Mike Nagel

The Ill-Fated Encore of Nick Drake

Teddy Engs & Sami Gross

mansion apartment shack house

Kelsey Swintek & Evie Carreira

The Intergalactic Library for Introverts

Amie Souza Reilly & Michael Todd Cohen

Backstreets: A Dirty Shirt

Benjamin Bartu, Felix Lecocq, & Bruce Springsteen

Feeling small,

Ruby Rorty & Evan Williams

Red Hot Chili Pepper (Donuts)

Carina Solis & Sharon Zhang

Folklore at the End of the Rainbow

Adam Gianforcaro & Gardner Dorton

The Gynecologist and Other Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Elizabeth Burch-Hudson & Catherine Spino

Nicole Wants to Write a Poem with Maureen

Maureen Seaton & Nicole Tallman

Quarterback Country

Travis Dahlke

spicy ramen noodles.

Jesutomisin Ipinmoye

Two Pieces

Katiy Heath

2 Poems

James Croal Jackson

Pin3appl3 Pi3

Sam Berman

Birthday Not-Cake

Steph Wagner-Kinnear

Everyone at the Waffle House Fucks

Dwin Phillips

Sweet or Salty  

Victoria Buitron

It Began With Prosciutto

Joshua Vigil

Cabbage Hearts

Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes

Some Food for Funerals

Nick Farriella

Cookies

Cristian Cantir

The Hardest Part

Sherrel McLafferty

There is Always Free Ice Water at Wall Drug

Jen Rouse

The Masani Who Drank Pepsi

Harsimran Kaur

Inexplicably Happy

Mikko Harvey

The Popsicle is Not a Metaphor

Max Gillette

Antimatter

Kate McIntyre

Big Night (1996)

Chase Ferree

Cup of Joe

Rosaleen Lynch

Gently Mangled

Caleb Bethea

Binge

Adrienne Marie Barrios

I eat Rice Krispies for breakfast every morning

Bodie Fox

The Octopus That Controls My Body Is Angry

Nellie Diamantopoulou

Three Amuse Bouche

Adrian Dallas Frandle

How We Go On Eating

Nathan Gower

BESURETODRINKYOUR

Lauren Kardos

Money Shot

Sienna Liu

In Which a Boy Alone on a Picnic Eats a Rainbow Cookie Laced with Poison but the Reader Doesn’t Know if the Boy Is Aware There’s Poison in the Cookie or Not Because the Boy Isn’t Real and the Cookie Isn’t Real However the Rainbow Shape Is Real Because There Is an Actual Rainbow in the Sky Being Set on Fire by a Bunch of Angry Fascists