Poem

The Thing about Fake Flowers

My passion against fake flowers had grown to a fever-pitch.

Joel Kurz

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Issue 57

Article

Already Won

Rap Is Poetry | LISTEN

Ty Rashad

2 min read time

Article

Spotify Playlist | The Poetic Approach

Listen to our hand-picked playlist for this issue.

Aarik Danielsen

0 min read time

Poem

SARGASSUM

You’re like the colourful fish swimming teasingly within arms’ reach as we snorkel.

D.S. Martin

1 min read time

Poem

counterpressure

i think a lot about fred rogers, how he allied himself with television (that dangerous thing)to extend belovedness to children.

Carreen Raynor

1 min read time

Poem

Dear Betty

We are now 80 who used to play Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable / Your mother’s woven rugs / As our lush mink stoles

Janet Mccann

1 min read time

Poem

Spinus tristis (from the Latin, meaning ‘sad’)

What is it that you hope to see in a therapist?

Ron Riekki

1 min read time

Poem

Ongoing Construction

When a spider started to build a web while they drank their coffee, they felt rich like people who had box seats at Lincoln Center.

Susan Shea

1 min read time

Poem

Winter Solstice

They’ll fend without my help. Always have.

Peter Venable

1 min read time

Poem

M Y M O N K I S H L I F E

The Mediation of a Chronically Ill Woman

Kimberly Phinney

2 min read time