Reuben Gelley Newman
Arthur, 1992

Reuben Gelley Newman - Arthur, 1992

Poetry
Reuben Gelley Newman (he/him) is a writer, musician, and library worker based in Brooklyn, NY. His poems are available or forthcoming in diode, The Fairy Tale Review, The Journal, The South Dakota… Read more »
Leah Mell
Ice Fishing on Europa

Leah Mell - Ice Fishing on Europa

Poetry
Leah Mell is a genderqueer lesbian poet and translator originally from the American South, but currently living in the Southwest. At present, she is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the… Read more »
Devin S. Turk
Junk Drawer

Devin S. Turk - Junk Drawer

Poetry
Devin S. Turk writes from personal experience about Autism, transness, and madness in the Mid-Atlantic United States, often with a cat in their lap. They have work published in Short Édition’s… Read more »
Grace
New Year

Grace - New Year

Poetry
Grace is a settler living in Ontario on the traditional and Treaty territory of the Anishinabek people, now known as the Chippewa Tri-Council, comprised of the Beausoleil, Rama, and Georgina Island… Read more »
C. Mikal Oness
Not Grace Exactly

C. Mikal Oness - Not Grace Exactly

Poetry
C. Mikal Oness is the author of Oracle Bones, winner of the Lewis & Clark Poetry Prize, and Water Becomes Bone (New Issues Press). His poems have appeared in numerous journals throughout the U.S.… Read more »
Aiden Heung
Scranton

Aiden Heung - Scranton

Poetry
Aiden Heung (he/they) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous Town, currently living in Shanghai. He is a Tongji University graduate. His poems written in English have appeared in The… Read more »
Sara Eddy
There Should Be a God

Sara Eddy - There Should Be a God

Poetry
Sara Eddy is author of two chapbooks: Tell the Bees (A3 Press) and Full Mouth (Finishing Line). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Threepenny Review, Pink Panther, and Raleigh Review.… Read more »
Deborah Allbritain
What the mind keeps, it keeps

Deborah Allbritain - What the mind keeps, it keeps

Poetry
Deborah Allbritain’s work appears or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ecotone, Fugue, Salamander, Thrush, and Plume. Her poems have been finalists in the Crab Creek Review… Read more »

Not Grace Exactly

C. Mikal Oness

In a hundred rows of corn A quarter mile long—three of us, Whatever doves were hiding, Two shotguns and a .22. The only time I ever killed Was by accident. The only thing I ever shot at, once, was a blackbird. And the bullet of my .22 hissed By the ear of my brother’s quiet friend Who later rested his open palm behind My neck and continued saying nothing, But smiled, cased his double-barrel And laid it down in the bed of his truck Which was shining from a noon rain.
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