November Contributors

a.d., Geoffrey Aitken, Eva Alter, Dihya Ammar, Sumayya Arshed, Noah Berlatsky, Jacob Butlett, Jonathan Chan, John Compton, Fank William Finney, Sharon Weightman Hoffman, Andi Horowitz, John Jeffire, Emma Johnson-Rivard, Christopher Jones, Len Kuntz, Francesca Leader, Shaylynn Marks, Mark McConville, Tempest Miller, Nick Power, Henry Reneau, Jr., Mykyta Ryzhykh, Robert Sheppard, Steven M. Smith, Emily Stech, William Teets, Clay Waters, and Jeffrey Zabe

Poetry

November Highlights

  • when i buried

    by Mykyta Ryzhykh

    “When I buried you the oceans didn't move however / When I buried you it didn't rain and nothing changed / When I buried you I realized that you still hear and even breathe”

  • your majesty

    by Shaylynn Marks

    “Arms lifted, he commands, “Have Miss Marks blow.” / In that deep, Appalachian twang—native to West Virginia./ I said, “of course, your majesty” with a wink / And a curtsy, I blew the little Jail in West Virginia down.”

  • new in town

    by Emily Stech

    “Everything is a show / Perpetrated by the Affiliation / Who in the shadows / With their code / Mark invisible borders with runny ink.”

  • i know the bedroom door is not quite shut

    by Francesca Leader

    “…it sounds like you, sliding / into my dark bed, matching your/soft metal to my / tender ore, the safety of a door *clicking* shut—fit / tight, world contained.”

  • ancestry

    by John Jeffire

    “A Navy machinist’s mate second class, he died on November 24, 1943, when his ship the USS Linscome Bay was torpedoed by a Japan submarine. He was 22.”

  • dogma (after pier paolo pasolini)

    by a.d.

    “Having sated his calling, the prostitute / returns under the first blush / of dawn, & in the vestry smothers / his hard-earned holiness.”

  • these maggots

    by Dihya Ammar

    “their eyes were on us like maggots on bodies feasting on our fester.”