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by Nix Carlson VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Thirty-Some Years Frozen" by Nix Carlson frostbitten hands snatch at the cigarettedangling from your lips andyou stoop to meet my gaze with a hangdog expression. i want to be angry(god, i want to be so angry)because cigarettes will kill you in a lifetime, and –i have handwarmers in myContinue reading “Thirty-Some Years Frozen”

by Bill Ratner VOICEMAIL POEMS · "They Send Me to the City to Stay with my Auntie" by Bill Ratner I hang my jacket in the hallwayher apartment is oldmade from shoestring potatoesit smells like a jelly factory. Against the wall a man’s faceeyes foldedlaces around his neck.That’s your Uncle, dear. He barred herfrom doingContinue reading “They Send Me to the City to Stay with my Auntie”

by Tian Sanchez-Ballado VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Orchard Grafts" by Tian Sanchez-Ballado A fig in an orange grove—I pruned myself from the rotting branch,sawed through the only bark I knew. Now I stand among the citrus on the longest night,their branches strung with stars,garlands of dried slices glowing like tiny suns,the air thick with clove andContinue reading “Orchard Grafts”

by Cole Pragides VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Nooduitgang" by Cole Pragides Once I visited my old roommateat a film festivalon Scheveningen beachwhere the winning moviewas something avant gardeand vaguely religiouswe did not understand. Afterwards we danced toMadonna’s “Like a Prayer”within the sand dunes all night,the wind transforming the blanketaround my shoulders into wings,my roommate recounting howContinue reading “Nooduitgang”

by Ariana Brown VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Motion, or Teaching My Best Friend My Favorite Songs At the Top of Our Lungs" by Ariana Brown Ariana Brown is a queer Black Mexican American poet based in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the poetry collections We Are Owed. (Grieveland, 2021) and Sana Sana (Game Over Books, 2020). She holdsContinue reading “Motion, or Teaching My Best Friend My Favorite Songs At the Top of Our Lungs”

by Erick Flores Díaz VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Lukewarm Iced Tea" by Erick Flores Diaz Erick Flores Díaz is a visual artist and a poet based in Morelia, México. Coming from a long lineage of traditional ice cream makers, he writes.

by Trystan Popish VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Grieving with Bob Ross" by Trystan Popish Trystan Popish is a poet and essayist from Colorado. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and can be found in Pleiades, The Sunlight Press, Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, Rogue Agent Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in Denver with herContinue reading “Grieving with Bob Ross”

by Jonathan Fletcher VOICEMAIL POEMS · "God's Alternative Response to Job (2025 Version)" by Jonathan Fletcher Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts.  His work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines, and he has won or placed in various literary contests.Continue reading “God’s Alternative Response to Job (2025 Version)”

by Oisín Rowe VOICEMAIL POEMS · "God Made Me a Fag" by Oisín Rowe Rolled in goldleaf, cocooned inshreddings of ancienttext. His words, a patheticstream slurringout between pulls, Prophets lust but I begyou, beg. Lick the goodsoil off your lover’shand. Taste what the treeroots know, Bend yourback at lightning snaps.Submit to the murmursof rabbit children.Continue reading “God Made Me a Fag”