February Contributors

Clayre Benzadón, g.a.costa, Salvatore Difalco, Meg Freer, Cyndi Gacosta, Cody Gohl, GTimothy Gordon, Joey Junsu Hong, Luke Janicki, John Jeffire, Craig Kirchner, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, Kathryn Lasseter, Zev Levinson, Dusti RW Levy, Raul Meza, David P. Miller, Amelia Napiorkowski, Brooke N. Plummer, Patricia Powers, Jason Reid, Olivia Rose, Carol Shillibeer, Hayley Shucker, Ben Starr, Yuchen Tao, Jordan Trethewey, Grady VanWright, and Philip Venzke

Poetry

February Highlights

  • the sound of 1000 people saying “foop” all at once

    by Meg Freer

    “Beware magnetic particles / and unhinged brachiopods / in your breakfast cereal, / make space for the absurd…”

  • before brooklym

    by Joey Junsu Hong

    “You smiled the way you did at the hall the night before, / freckles lifting briefly, / as if the welcome might hold.”

  • winter dinner

    by Yucheng Tao

    “…time is a shattered mirror, / reflecting her in the arms / of a golden-haired man, / meeting me with cold silence.”

  • ringing in the memories

    by Philip Venzke

    “I go to bed / comforted by the electric hum / of the pseudo-candle.”

  • the poet as nike aphrodite

    by Dusti RW Levy

    “If I am made in the image of god, then god / has been set on a pedestal, glared at, stared at, spit on…”