May Contributors

Alice Blackwell, Madeline Blair, Wayne F. Burke, Jonathan Butcher, Craig Constantine, Liz DeGregorio, Loel Earl, Makayla Edwards, Vern Fein, Sean Foster, Crystal James, Frank Haberle, Scott C. Holstad, Damon Hubbs, Jade Kleiner, Andy Huy Le, Shon Mapp, Liz Mariani, Pawel Markiewicz, Tempest Miller, Nathaniel Nicolau, Bill Neumire, Joe Pagano, Jr., dan raphael, Piper Rasmussen, John Repp, Fran Schumer, Philip Venzke, E.G. Ware, and Hannah Webster

Poetry

May Highlights

swan story: ode to ambiguous pronouns

by John Repp
“…the delis & bookshops, / the cobblers & lectures & resettlement houses jostling / each block, all the free things penniless couples could do, / how they hid their Robeson records till McCarthy / was good and dead.”
domestic sentences 11

by Bill Neumire
“[Jesse] just got a senior lecturer position at Cornell and he gets to teach a class on happiness, which is a secular replacement for god.
it was a war, wasn't it?

by Crystal James
“Today, I celebrate my inner child / Her strength and resilience / Her messy hair and shy voice / Her dirty feet and fearless climb / Her vigilance / Her hope / Her love for red poppies in August”
puppet man

by Frank Haberle
“Come, children, the man standing on a box / In the center of the bridge yelled to us, / In Shakespeare. Let us shut up this box / And put away these puppets, for our play / Has been played.”
narcissus, repenting

by Hanna Webster
“I lick her palm, which tastes like mercy, her grooved heartline ensnared by the pathetic molecular boundary of her flesh. What a shame. I smell fear radiate from her hair like steam”