Twenty-Four, Candidly | Violet Piper

"you start to repeat your stories; / you sound like your mom / you feel so grateful for your mom you can't stand it..." Violet Piper's work has appeared in Slate, The Blue Mountain Review, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere.

She Is an Artist | Élyse Deering

"what a lovely painting you made girl, / but have you seen this man’s / portrait of his dog? / How that man must love love love his dog / you’re crying now? take a pill..."

Bertilax Trax, or Xperience of a Day | Liam McLean

"His man, his old / host, worn and supportive, / giving directions through / his chewed veil of nails. / While their three / pals clunk in the backseat, / chained and hoping to see / a bright, isolate eave..."

Cormorant Flight | Victoria Punch

"I go down, down / black as a bracket against the sky / lowered in increments / down, down to the level below / wing-rail smooth, feather bent / under the eye of the clock..."

Sound Poems: Boys and Girls | Janis Butler Holm

"That girlish lethal weaponry will expurgate this duffle coat. / That girlish intake manifold will clamor for this turnip bed..." New sound poems by Janis Butler Holm.

Conquest, as Seen by the City | Ashley Deng

"you call to me and demand / I let you enter, / past these walls and into my / streets, / words snarled out in a language / whose vocabulary is littered with remnants of / conquest..."