Flying Fox | Kristi Maxwell

The beautiful outlaw, a lipogram that does not use the letters in the subject’s name (in this case, the name of an endangered species) explores what happens when what is endangered is instead absent—gone.

Selected Poems | Alex Behr

"The body is the skin with the new spit across it... The pacifier: to shove something in a (child’s) mouth / and hope nothing will come out..."

Don’t Worry, Be Happy | Melanie Friedman

"too many notifications but waking up to an empty phone is vacuums / sucking butterflies I am the same thread flushed and forgotten by the space / I used to occupy..."

Selected Poems | Daneen Bergland

"Let this make us safe / to kiss and wake in the bright light / of science. Let us place too much / stock in our own resilience. / Let us experiment. Let us embrace / and make pets of our differences..."

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..."