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Assorted Poems

“that I’d have to give back the Calvin and Hobbes
I stole from you”

by Sinan Ozbay on February 26, 2017February 26, 2017

A Few Thoughts on Zayn Malik

“On the long last day of his life, the Buddha sat perfectly still.”

by Sammy Prentice on February 26, 2017July 20, 2017

Stained Glass

We always have so many things to do but time stilled in there, like the quiet between heartbeats.

by Serena Alagappan on February 19, 2017July 21, 2017

Masochism and a Self.

Embrace the mutilation

by Zaynab Zaman on December 11, 2016

Generation

Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue—
In the picture I have of you, Melts in the wall.???
The idiot
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot,
your root,

I never could tell where you—
Put your foot—
For the hearing of my heart—
It really goes.

by a computer, Sylvia Plath, Zach Cohen on December 11, 2016

DEAR AMERICA I WANT TO ASK YOU A QUESTION

I want to go on a road trip through your belly
find dirt along the Ohio River thick with skeletons

by Kirit Limperis on December 3, 2016

Trumpymandius

A poem with some “help” from Percy Shelley

by Harrison Blackman on December 3, 2016July 21, 2017

Untitled

Am I silos, still as daybreak?

by Crystal Liu on November 21, 2016July 21, 2017

A Reminder

A poem about love.

by Matthew Silberman on November 21, 2016August 13, 2017

Translating Elena Isaeva

Elena Isaeva has been translated into various European languages, but has never been published in English.

by Fiona Bell on November 21, 2016July 21, 2017

Margin of Fragility

Shaking fingers reach,
Barely hold,
Losing grip,

by Tianyi Wang on October 16, 2016

Resurrecting Tay (Microsoft’s A.I. Twitter) in my father’s childhood home

Benadryl bites.

The whites of his eyes, half in the light.

by Somi Jun on October 16, 2016October 19, 2016


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