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by Callie Jennings VOICEMAIL POEMS · "When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain…" by Callie Jennings Until I thought to check, I thought I knew:worms emerge from dirt to taron the run from drowning. Actually no one understandstheir reasons. Maybe worms emerge from dirt to tarwhen vibrations ape a predator.Continue reading “When I Try to Verify Why They Carpet Driveways After the Rain, Google Keeps Feeding Me Distressingly Hot Factoids About Hermaphroditic Earthworm Sex”

by Muhammad Rabih VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Untitled" by Muhammad Rabih we did not hold handsoften we clenched legsunder the table hands were too publicfor two who did not knowhow feelings socailize we sat on a benchon the cornichewatching the nile at noon it was full and calmwe could hear the wind singto the trees onContinue reading “Untitled”

by Fiona Martinez VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Unassigned" by Fiona Martinez Fiona Martinez is a queer poet from Boise, Idaho and an MFA writing student at UC San Diego. Her hybrid work enters the natural world and the animal to understand embodiment, mixed identities, and the entanglement of violence and tenderness in our shared work towardsContinue reading “Unassigned”

by JeFF Stumpo VOICEMAIL POEMS · "[Tonight you lay on your own couch…]" by JeFF Stumpo JeFF Stumpo’s prose poems describing his lucid dreams, as well as rendering the hopes and fears of people he cares about into dreamscapes, have appeared or are forthcoming in places such as The Journal, Prairie Schooner, Salt Hill Journal,Continue reading “[Tonight you lay on your own couch…]”

by Charlotte Alexander VOICEMAIL POEMS · "The Way to Keep Going in Your Twenties" by Charlotte Alexander Charlotte Alexander is an aspiring poet from Vermont. She is an MFA candidate at the University of Idaho. She is often found fly fishing small streams, hugging her favorite trees, and writing poems in her email drafts.

by c. rivera VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Sugar Bloom & Smudge" by C. Rivera c. rivera (they/she) is a queer disabled poet & food writer from NYC. They were named a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, a prize winner for Eavesdrop Magazine’s Queer Joy issue, a contributor in Querencia Press’s We Were Seeds anthology, and in Fruitslice’s issueContinue reading “Sugar Bloom & Smudge”

by Dylan Emmons VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Progressively Ambitious Poem for the Future" by Dylan Emmons I want to write about eternity toojust like the catsprobing at their breakfasts or your two week old hands Isadorabrushing my beard like sleepwalkingwindshield wipers or the way the sun uses maple leaves as lampshadesif we can spend as muchContinue reading “Progressively Ambitious Poem for the Future”

by C. Late VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Potato" by C. Late three soldiers in tinfoil jacketsroasting on the bottom oven rack she’d cut the ends off one too long for its own goodhacked chunks from the pudgy pocked onesliced the largest of the lot into quarters pulling used foil from a crumpled stash shemanhandled the starchyContinue reading “Potato”

by Jenna Cardinale VOICEMAIL POEMS · "New York Summer" by Jenna Cardinale Jenna Cardinale is a poet and climate activist.  The author of two chapbooks, her poems have recently appeared in LIT, Broken Lens Journal, and $ – Poetry Is Currency, which nominated her work for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in the county of Kings in New York, whereContinue reading “New York Summer”