March Contributors

Izzy Nameth Beck, Allyn Bernkopf, David Calogero Centorbi, Cat Dixon, Deron Eckert, R.M. Engelhardt, Marc Frazier, Devon Fulford, Bex Hainsworth, Adele Hally, Jeff Hardin, Katie Johntz, David Lee, Naomi Bess Leimsider, Joshua Lillie, KG Miles, Tempest Miller, James Morehead, Yvonne Morris, Blair Nelsen, Hailey Paetzel, Cara Paleschi, · R L · powell, Prahi Rajput, Mikki Rios, Brad Rose, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Maisie Kennedy Sherriff, Kalina Smith, Annie Williams, Brandon Yu

Poetry

March Highlights

anything that casts a shadow

by Joshua Lillie
“I’m what happens when you surprise an armadillo / with a weekend trip to Pensacola. / I’m the face in the crowd that you can’t quite place. / Am I your uncle? I’m too young to be your uncle.”
the legend of thumbelina as generational trauma: glosa on sylvia plath’s “lady lazarus”

by Kalina Smith
“The apples didn’t fall far / from the gnarled family tree, / covered in cockchafers / who kill the lilies and violet, / burning every shred of beauty down / in just a moment’s flash.”
remedy

by Bex Hainsworth
“It's been fifteen years since I allowed / her fussing, but now we both indulge. / I can’t say which balm soothes the burn. / When she slips teabags into my suitcase, / I smile, hold close her charms.”
museum for the somnambulists

by James Morehead
“We’re together in the galleries / holding hands and pointing / Your father joyous after Canadian Thanksgiving / my father’s father unreadable over a poker hand…”
ass

by Tempest Miller
“A donkey bites my hair / a bear hides in a tree / a bear hides in a tree / but the donkey kicks back legs into a woodburner / and lets go…”

David Estringel 1/22/26 David Estringel 1/22/26

five poems

by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

“The popes go up in smoke / and I drive my seething ramrod jalopy / down the Vaseline highway, / looking for bullet trains from the minds / of lone gunmen, / and the pearly white who sold me / on lemons…”

David Estringel 1/21/26 David Estringel 1/21/26

three poems

by Trapper Markelz

“I don’t know all the pain in this world, / the price of head scars, the pace of change, the speed / of a galloping stallion, but I’ll keep doing the things / we’ve always done.”

David Estringel 1/20/26 David Estringel 1/20/26

five poems

by Spencer Silverthorne

“I lost the lush fading to his geyser. I google / all the fish I refuse to commit to memory.”

David Estringel 1/19/26 David Estringel 1/19/26

five poems

by Ihor Pidhainy

“their drivers did not worry / where’d they’d end – in a lake / or a deep ravine, or a combo / of the two. That is they were drugged, / left for dead…”

David Estringel 1/18/26 David Estringel 1/18/26

end of summer

by Nicholas Castine

“In scorched grass, Girl turns — searching, knee-deep; / not a dandelion to blow.”

David Estringel 1/17/26 David Estringel 1/17/26

five poems

by Mykyta Ryzhykh

“bird with two wings / cannot dig a pit / for its chick”

David Estringel 1/16/26 David Estringel 1/16/26

five poems

by David Guiden

“This dick is fluent in every language”

David Estringel 1/15/26 David Estringel 1/15/26

five poems

by Rebecca Warlick

“Whoa I’m doing it / I’m escaping complex trauma/ I’m planting a rose garden / I’m hitting mom with a shovel“

David Estringel 1/14/26 David Estringel 1/14/26

bloody mind of primitivism

by Tempest Miller

“I refuse to die, at home alone with drunk sleepy father. / I will take every treatment. / I will fill my lungs with air…”

David Estringel 1/13/26 David Estringel 1/13/26

three poems

by Abbie Hart

“i’m going to crawl into the bag of rambutan on the second shelf of / my parents’ fridge ($5.99/lb at heb) and try not to think about / the things i left behind for a dream that died five years ago.”

David Estringel 1/12/26 David Estringel 1/12/26

five poems

by Paul Hostovsky

“I was devastated / and heartbroken as only the Tin Man / who didn’t even know he had a heart / until it got broke could be”

David Estringel 1/11/26 David Estringel 1/11/26

two poems

by Lucas Mancini

“wilting between treehouses and greenhouses / weeping like a real orchid hothouse / wearing stilts to a planetarium / flossing with starlight before bad first dates…”