Itchy | Turandot Shayegan

"let me know if you plan on borrowing my skin it itches sometimes when you pull it off it itches / and i can’t itch it when i’m so naked sitting here without my skin i’m so naked it itches it itches..."

Sounds Like | Jennifer Lang

"I read one syllable at a time first-grader fashion: ga-go-a-im, which makes me think of the game charades—sounds like garinim, Hebrew for sunflower seeds, a common Israeli snack..."

Selected Poems | Patrick S. Rogers

"Suppose a use or even a slipping through, and then think straight toward a shadow. The double of the thing is always coming. Silver, but no shadow..."

Scission | Janice Lee

"after all that / we ended up with the right one / tilt back towards the sunrise / and when you sound out / the function / with your mouth / trace amounts of time / will vivify..."

Nightingale Sonnets | Lenore S. Beadsman

"Provoked by the tense of the earlier and steadfast lines / Has she been towering over the containment for how it can / Look to be the amazement around the filtering of a cluster..."

Run It up the Flagpole and See | Jessie Janeshek

Jessie Janeshek's full-length collections are MADCAP (Stalking Horse Press, 2019), The Shaky Phase (Stalking Horse Press, 2017), and Invisible Mink (Iris Press, 2010).