Selected Poems | Susannah Violette

"my mind is with the autumn larch / its saffron needles hot and burning / my chest is a furnace / an oven, two saucepans / boil over and scald..."

The Juniper Tree, in Three Attempts | Rosalie Morales Kearns

"Q: Whose head was severed from its body in that large, pleasant house? A: My brother’s head was severed from its body..."

Lists | E. Martin Pedersen

"Please go through these lists / no blood from a paper cut / Check off all the items / how a pencil smells when sharpened / Turn the page around / you lick your index finger..."

How to Build a Box | Benjamin Kessler

"Amass your lumber. Use planks recovered from Great Cottonwood, which stood out near Haystack Rock for all those years and of which pieces can still be found around Furness, Wyoming..."

Power Play | Sarah Clayville

"Now, the club barely filled half the seats and most nights, when Lea took the subway across town to watch, she felt like she was witnessing an extinction..."

Selected Poems | Daniel Bourne

"To create not just color but the colloidal suspension of color, when / At any given moment its hue cannot be sustained and then the whole structure / Comes crashing down on our unsuspecting heads, the entire bottle emptying at once..."