3rd Place Poetry Contest Winner! on margate sands, i can connect with nothing - Lagoon Myers
I crave innocence at night. That’s why only strawberries satiate my sweet indulgence. Juicy, sweet, and...
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2nd Place Poetry Contest Winner! revising my father's blood-alcohol content - Sarah Leidhold
after Andrea Gibson’s “Photoshopping My Sister’s Mugshot” January 1970 I find you in salmon cutoffs and a handmedown Budweiser tee; here...
- May 25
- 1 min
1st Place Poetry Contest Winner! Time is Like Cherry Soup - Grace Downey
This poem is the 1st place winner of the Sad Girls Club's 2023 Spring Poetry Contest. 1 Avian Lover I sing to the barred owl and she...
- May 19
- 1 min
Show Me A Worse Pain - Taylor Palmer
Show me a worse pain Not a distant one Show me a hurt Staring back at me Hovering reflection in pavement Racing ahead Looking over its...
- May 15
- 1 min
2023 Spring Poetry Contest Winners
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our $500 cash prize Spring Poetry Contest! We had an incredible batch of selections, and...
- May 13
- 1 min
Snowflake - Sara Wetmore
My heart has been hung like a wet rag, twisted and wrung, left out to dry until it is ultimately forgotten.. My heart has been...
- May 8
- 1 min
You’re Going to Be a Father (Part 1) - Rosalie Hendon
You’re going to be a father. I remember you in Mrs. Taylor’s Spanish class sprawled over two desks, sleeping. I remember you showing me a...
- May 6
- 1 min
i took responsibility - Dr. Jo L
they are proud of me my level goes from maximum to medium risk i think i am happy or proud or relieved then my body becomes a ball on the...
- May 2
- 1 min
your newest primary care doctor - Audrey Coleman
i’m not a doctor. i’ve never been to medical school. hell, i can barely distinguish between the fibula and the tibia. yet somehow, i know...
- Apr 30
- 1 min
The House of My Soul - Bert Rock
I am not a whole man, a whole person, something is missing, has always been missing. I should not know what I know. No one should ever...
- Apr 13
- 1 min
Monthly - Anna Boughtwood
Monstrously menstrual, a body all exposed nerve and confrontation Anna Boughtwood lives just over the Dunn Memorial Bridge from Albany....
- Apr 11
- 1 min
Silence is a Loaded Gun - Megan Cartwright
Dawn’s silence is a loaded gun and I am trigger-happy, coxcomb god-like in dappled light and early morning dew drops, weapon poised atop...
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Warm Enough to Live - M. Shayne Bell
after Mao Tse-tung’s poem, “Loushan Pass” —for Debbie In Salt Lake City, some friends are homeless. One sleeps in a doghouse she heats...
- Apr 3
- 1 min
to moxie by the front door - Rachel Baila
you said i would unravel without you, but i’ve never been so tightly woven within myself as the day there was no more us and i knew your...
- Mar 26
- 2 min
Bacon - Steph Scott
For the carnivore, the smell of cooked bacon is a stimulant. It activates the salivary glands and awakens the stomach. Serotonin fills...
- Mar 23
- 1 min
The architecture of you - Sarah Durrand
I blinked and said my silent thanks to the stars for giving you a receding hairline and bloodshot eyes: subtle signs you weren’t actually...
- Mar 20
- 1 min
handful of earth - Trevor Scott Barton
I love the handful of earth you are as you lay on your back on the ground under the angel oak tree in the morning sun I lay between your...
- Mar 17
- 1 min
Fragile - Savannah S. Miller
I fell in love with a boy made of broken glass Bound together by chicken wire and Bid to stay upright by those who call on Sundays. I...
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Solace at Dusk - Ebony Sago
From dusk to dawn, I think of you. I sit in my room and write letters on top of letters, Full of feelings I have tried to construe. From...
- Mar 13
- 1 min
The Wound - Maze Orgiyvsky
The wound has teeth, the wound has a voice, the wound is treatment-resistant, the wound flakes and peels, the wound sings in the shower...
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