Snake River - Karen Greenbaum-Maya
Back when it was a treat to sleep in tents on the ground, we rafted down the Snake River in Wyoming. Loaded with eight tourists, the raft...
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- Oct 21, 2022
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Crashy - Nicole Farmer
was my nickname. I’d fly from my crib as a toddler. As soon as I could stand, I’d rock for momentum and hurl myself forward - arms wide....
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- Oct 17, 2022
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On Returning - Hanna Webster
In your bedroom, you hold me close my chest shot-through from virus, cylinders of light cracking my ribs sternum woven shut, me, gasping...
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- Oct 15, 2022
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Atomic Theory II - Thomas Simmons
When I was a four-year-old in Lincoln I catapulted over my tricycle handle bars and My right knee kissed sidewalk and came away with a...
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- Oct 13, 2022
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Charlottenburg - Stephanie McConnell
We hid in one room, pouring white wine and hating our neighbors. I could hold a soldier’s stare like a bouquet, and held bouquets like...
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- Oct 9, 2022
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Today - Stephanie Wood
TODAY I got drunk in the shower turned up the heat as high as it would go before the water heater ran out, today I went to a bar with my...
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- Oct 5, 2022
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May Crowning - Emily Perkovich
Dry earth splits with repulsion There is a paradox in the crying shame that a dehydrated cell forgets how to soak It’s a crying shame...
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- Oct 3, 2022
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The Poets - Caitlin Coey
At ten, they released me, these swordsmen, these magicians, pulling thread after thread of meaning out of their fine silk, tweed, and...
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- Sep 27, 2022
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White as Coal - Dominic Dailey
If I was as black as Coal, With the Lorde’s confidence within me Would I be a happy soul? Could I inherit her? If I was Virginia white,...
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- Sep 24, 2022
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aftermath - Mary Elliott
Silence comes, After the storm, Creeping – Looks around, Assessing damage, What can be done? To take it back, The steel tipped fears, Of...
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- Sep 21, 2022
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Pool Ghoul - Margaret D. Stetz
I can be patient but when my spirit someday seeps from out my corpse I know that it will slither toward suburbia and slip into the...
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- Sep 18, 2022
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Night Rain in the Desert - Molly McKasson
It was such a long time since the last rain that when it started the other night I thought it was a truck rumbling down the street, and...
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- Sep 15, 2022
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$6.66 - Tori Kezer
And I am so sick Of being looked at like a Museum exhibit. A necklace you got in the gift shop, Only it cost my soul—not yours. Probably...
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- Sep 12, 2022
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Black hole - Janelle Finamore
Rushing towards extinction on a Ferris wheel of doubt The heavy night air like an elephant thickens my heart with lust You look in the...
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- Aug 27, 2022
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Primal Blue - Christen Lee
They say to keep alive the memory of the ones you’ve lost but do they tell you the cost of remembering while also trying to raise the...
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- Aug 21, 2022
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On Being Neglected - Melanie Gilkerson
In the summer of 2000, after we were evicted Mom left us alone to Sleep in her boyfriend’s basement. Used to absence, we played catch in...
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- Aug 18, 2022
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Salt and steel - Maya Weichbrodt
Salt and steel survive in icy blue. Red fingers chapped and cracked by cold parched by endless heat drip with a promise. One that bleeds...
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- Jul 31, 2022
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Alyson Hays - Sunset
My heart strong Beats with life Each day fades With a dying sunset Burning away The waning glow Stops me in my place I wonder why When my...
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- Jul 27, 2022
- 2 min
2nd Place Poety Winner: The Nice Man - Rabia Kapoor
He seems nice, The man performing cunnilingus On the beautiful, supine woman Who throws her head back because she must And closes her...
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- Jul 27, 2022
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3rd Place Poetry Winner: Toddler on Fire - MARK HAMMERSCHICK
I will not kiss your commie flag a sickly sickle and rusted hammer stuck in the mud hollow scythe dulled with Ukie blood when the steppes...
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