Dear alcohol, I almost died for you. An incomplete list of things I lost through loving you includes many years, feeling in my left arm, a fully functional liver, a burning slew of codependent lovers, […]
Submittable Submission Titles Because Top-Tier Journals Love to Publish Queers (Koss)
Four lesbians on a motorcycle in BangkokSeven lesbian poems locked in a prisonFive black lesbian poems, forty-seven straight white editors14 recovered Evangelical editors, all whiteThis little queer went to SubmittableBurning down the lesbian poems100 non-binary […]
Heartbreaker (Olivia Powers)
By the time they wondered where we were we had already been gone for quite a while, first to the back patio behind those mildewed beach umbrellas, then, urgently, into a cab and off across […]
untitled (m. forajter)
my DNA boils in a soup pot. in go my brain pills.greta, what should i do about the environment?existential sadness will not grant me a house in the woods,a golden retriever, a job that pays […]
love letter to dr. phil (Samantha Fain)
in response to a dr. phil soundboard your drawl scrawlsthrough my ears at 4pm.i shut the tv off.you’re still there, you southern god. you’re rancid & you blowyour nose with money. a man without a […]
Streetlight People (SR Schulz)
I cannot remain silent. I reached my breaking point two weeks ago when you stood up on the table and shouted how you, Won’t stop believin’, to Mom, her face full of tears and sadness. […]
15 pack of ice cold Busch Light (Sheldon Birnie)
Win or lose; winter, spring, summer or fall; asphalt still warm as the sun lingers in the west or in the face of a brutal north wind, suds freezing to slush faster than you can […]
THE BROKEN PENCIL (J. Archer Avary)
the paper was clean and whitethe pencil was so sharp it snapped its leadthe broken pencil was a metaphorfor something but what? the broken pencil was uselessthere was a gaping hole like a volcano craterwhere […]
THREE PRAYERS (Matthew Burnside)
I. In Defiance, RE: The Brazen Fuckery of These Darkloom Days (DEAR WHOMEVER,tired of mirrors slitheringtired of pasting facestired of every pittedpensive pendulumabove all tired of being tiredfed up from feedingall these fanciful metaphors of […]
Rejection Letters 