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POETRY JOURNAL
Volume: 4 Issue: 3
June 2017
Alfredo Aguilar
the monsters my parents warned me about speak in their defense
as a child i watch mami sit in limbo
a mexican walks into a bar
abuelita stands at the concrete washboard
Nadia Alexis
How to Be Friends With a Sex Worker
I Don't Own Any Watches
Hala Alyan
Even When I Listen I'm Lying
On the Death of WWE Professional Wrestler Chyna
M. J. Arlett
Kingston Road
Denise Bell
Kool Aid Epistle
Bitter Words
Rosebud Ben-Oni
If Benyamin the Younger Sister
The Friend I Want When the Dead Walk
Alyse Bensel
Kitchen
Fritillary
Instructions for Hunger
Isabel Chenot
Three Poems from Spanish by Amado Nervo
Anthony Cody
The Axolotl Speaks
On Being Born
Natalie Eilbert
Election Day
Alexis Rhone Fancher
Appearances
Sister Poem #5 -Double Date: The Quarterback, The Fullback, & The High Cost of Dinner
Effy Fritz
El Paso:
Olivia Gatwood
The Scholar
The First Shave
Tanya Grae
Equinox
Black Iris Sonnet
Avery Moselle Guess
In Therapy, the Patient Is Asked To Define: Polaroid
Self Portrait of the Patient as a Murmuration of Starlings
The Eyes of God Were Watching
Each Night the Girl Makes a New Resolution
Kathryn Hargett
Leda & the Swan
J.J. Hernandez
The Alamo
Madison Johnson
west tennessee, july 2016
Katy Kim
Prospect Bay / Maryland
Jenna Le
Woman Behind the Lens
War and Peace
Alexandra Lytton Regalado
Entre Mareas
Salvadoran Road Bingo
Nathan McClain
Against Melancholy
Through My Kitchen Window
Je vous attends by Yves Tanguy
Anna Meister
{When you say I am proud of you}
Lupe Mendez
Abijoles (a response to “Frijochuelas”)
Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay
why i must keep moving and thinking and seeing
Louisa Muniz
Requiem for a Moment Remembered
A Calla Lily for Maria
The Date
Kate Murr
Forbearance is the Long Suit of the Matriarchs
I Mean Welcome
Two Deaths
Leila Ortiz
Rice
Peaches and Beatings
Gerardo Pacheco
Portrait of a Young Undocumented Immigrant in America
Meghann Plunkett
Light from Years and Years Ago
Ben Read
Division
Ellis Island & Autumn
Cemetery
Juanita Rey
Dividing
Erin Rodoni
Elegy with Due Date
Elegy Tangled with Silk and Spice
Judith Roney
Bone-Lace
Phil SaintDenisSanchez
lucid second line
Lynn Schmeidler
Handbook for a Thursday
Clean Sneak
Noor Shahzad
Cantonment
Notes on the Jugular
Mejdulene B. Shomali
where does grief live
baba's song
Katie Simpson
diabetic ketoacidosis
Emily Stoddard
More & More
Michael Torres
My Hometown as a Man Riding a Bicycle with No Chain
Lucy Wainger
A Thing with Stitches
Emily Paige Wilson
Friendship in Trump's America
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Reviews:
Sonja Johanson
Reviews of Obliterations by Jessica Piazza and Heather Aimee O’Neill & #lovesong by Chelsea Biondolillo
Eileen Murphy
Review of Villain Songs by Tammy Robacker
Ryan Werner
Review of A History of Flamboyance by Justin Phillip Reed
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