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We feature poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing and wildlike; and prose that offers new perspectives on the verse you thought you knew.

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  1. Between Stops
    Sep 18, 2026 · original
    The bodega kid stacks cans at dawnbefore school, learning inventorythe way I learned ḍād and ẓā—letters that don’t exist in English,sounds you shape by holding your tongueagainst the roof of your mouthuntil the air finds its own way out.On the platform at 179th Streeta man teaches his daughter to count stops:Parsons, Sutphin, Briarwood, Kew.She repeats […]
  2. Starlight Tour
    Sep 14, 2026 · original
    It can happen anywhere: Saskatoon or Minneapolis,masked men empowered to harm, badge-hidden,in state trooper or ICE uniforms, ask your namemake you guess which birdsong—the nighthawk or the house sparrow—lights the asphalt night that pierces your hazel irises frozenlike a common pinecone or a tangle of bush.You will guess wrong and they will leave you there […]
  3. Self-Portrait as Elena Greco
    Sep 11, 2026 · original
    I watch her from my windowas she draws a dark silk robearound her body. She steps outonto her balcony, lightsa cigarette, disappears intothe black hole of her phone.We do this every morning,though I do not smokeand cannot seem to vanish.Even in orgasm, or high with friendson a day by the lake,a small hard kernel of […]
  4. The New Birds
    Sep 7, 2026 · original
    The angels booked this room for 11:11, so I’ll be quick.To the tiding of magpies,To the parliament of owls,The host of sparrows, the lamentation of swans, And of course, to the murder among us,I welcome you all to our two-millionth annual general avian meeting.I’ve gathered you all here today in this elevatorto teach you gravity, […]
  5. Calypso, Still Typing
    Sep 4, 2026 · original
    Listen, I’ve been so long aloneI mistake the dishwasher for conversation.You list hiking. They all do.I live on an island. There’s nowhere to gobut in circles. Maybe that’s what you mean.I’m trying to remember what touching feels like without using theword sand. Once, a man stayed with me for seven years. He left on a […]
  6. A RIGHT HOOK, IN FIVE PARTS
    Aug 30, 2026 · original
    I remember the first time someone called me a Paki, Paki not the sweetness I’d come to know not how my mother would say it, but from volcano mouths like my cousin got, just this malice, with the kind of hate that lives in hot, fissured lips— his lava spit, my knuckle’s imprint in a […]
  7. The Rising Cost of Loving
    Aug 28, 2026 · original
    Most of my friends have dabbled in romancecopy editing at some point. It beats waitressingor taking the bus out to the Bridle Pathto tutor an unbridled kid in a frigid mansion.The world headquarters of Harlequinis in Toronto, by the way, which is relevantto this poem. None of them last long.My friends, I mean. There’s only […]
  8. The Ecstatic Workshop: Jessi MacEachern’s Cut Side Down
    Aug 24, 2026 · original
    Jessi MacEachern’s second collection with Invisible, Cut Side Down, follows 2021’s A Number of Stunning Attacks’ poetics as communion with other writers. Alongside a constellation of contemporary, Modernist, and semi-fictional poets to guide and/or bedevil her, MacEachern plays out phantasies for the hyper literate. Well-staged motif (the colour yellow) and gesture bind three sections: [1] […]
  9. Daughter of a Dead Addict Learns to Brine Olives
    Aug 24, 2026 · original
    In the beginning, folks made oil of the bitter. Later, the fruit—spilled in the sea and discovered salt-softened—became sustenance. No one knows whether this is true.Later again there was lye to quicken the ripening the way pitocin hastens a birth—and something is sharpened. As a child, olives were a way to pass time— one black […]
  10. P’s & Q’s
    Aug 21, 2026 · original
    The imam says minding your P’s and Q’scomes from the Qur'an—the careful watchingof your prayers and your recitation,not from some British pub keepertracking pints and quarts on chalkboards.I half-believe him because languagedoes this: carries double, movesin two directions at once.At the bodega on Parsons Boulevardthe Yemeni owner corrects my Arabicwhile counting change. I say shukran,he […]
  11. A Place Both Inside and Out
    Aug 18, 2026 · original
    This land is not a map but a slow erosion.Stones grow softer than the skinthat once read their braille.Rivers change their mindsand forget where they meant to go.Trees are historians of wind,their rings a captured tremor,a chronicle of thirst.Their roots remember a colder water,a deeper dark.I am learning the grammar of rocks:how a cliff is […]
  12. Where Nature Assuages Grief: Renée M. Sgroi’s In a Tension of Leaves and Binding
    Aug 17, 2026 · original
    Renée M. Sgroi’s In a Tension of Leaves and Binding is an ode to the natural world. We can understand the science of plant life, the locus of the animal world, the genus of them all, but none of this knowledge replaces “soil on her hands.” Sgroi makes us bear witness to the translation of […]

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