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by Kate Carey VOICEMAIL POEMS · "POV – I sent you 317 reels on Instagram" by Kate Carey Kate Carey (she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying  because feelings are hard.   Through deeply personal poetry and creative nonfiction, she touches on issues relating to trauma, fat liberation,Continue reading “POV: I Sent You 317 Reels on Instagram”

by Tom Snarsky VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Poem" by Tom Snarsky I felt like masturbating I felt like crying It was the twenty-first century Already A quarter over There had been artistic movements & wars My debts had been repackaged Countless times The enemy of my enemy Followed me On Twitter, now called Ex-Marines shot themselvesContinue reading “Poem”

by Aishvarya Arora VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Naturalization Test" by Aishvarya Arora Aishvarya Arora (b. Hanumangarh, India) is a poet and double Taurus from Queens. Their work has received support from the Fulbright Program, Tupelo Press’s Merrill Family Fellowship, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where they were a Poetry Coalition Fellow. Currently, Aishvarya teaches poetryContinue reading “Naturalization Test”

by Candace Cavanaugh VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Mojave" by Candace Cavanaugh He gave up looking for a town, gas station, or house off a road or driveway The desert unfolded further than his eyes could see. In the stillness, the ground spread in glare, broken only by shrubs now and then. A swell of dunes layContinue reading “Mojave”

by Carmen Barefield VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Love All of God's Creatures" by Carmen Barefield After all, God said “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”But I don’t have it in me, not after the deeprotting hatred of my neighbor seepedthrough the thin wall of plaster and horse-hair.After all, everyone is to blame.Everyone except for theContinue reading “Love All of God’s Creatures”

by Ankoor Patel VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Lorde's Supercut is Film Theory" by Ankoor Patel To hate yourself and have sexmakes you a movie directoron a street corner, seeingeverything in slow motion,scouting for bodies. When it’s too dark to seewe clock out to editmore. After work, every nightbecomes dance. Re-cutsof thighs and light shows. A supercutContinue reading “Lorde’s Supercut is Film Theory”

by Asha Berkes VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Lagoon" by Asha Berkes The cut on my ankle bleeds into the shape of an exclamation pointYou speak and it comes out ornateswirling, as if from an an ancient book I’m trying to follow those letterswhich are, inevitably,words, through the tall yellow grassesat the edge of the lagoonwhere yourContinue reading “Lagoon”

by John Muro VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Bloodgood Maple" by John Muro How their branches seemto extend without burdenin the lengthening light,their star-shaped leavesof deepest burgundy,weightless, more formthan texture, surrenderingto autumn air in such a waythat it’s difficult to discernwhere leaf-tip ends andshade begins; until, wind-jostled, they flutter likewisps of cordovan dustout into a blue expanseofContinue reading “Bloodgood Maple”

by Kelsey L. Smoot VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Bricks" by Kelsey L. Smoot I hope all my books are banned books,like, so contrabandthey start trappin’ them out the bando—people fiendin’ for my words with such fervorclawing at the doorfor just one more tastesomeone keeps the lookoutto make sure twelve don’t see the weight:tiny baggies filled withContinue reading “Bricks”

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