by Charlie Glick VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Love Poem at the End of a World" by Charlie Glick for Evelyn We came back to the citywith the desert on our skin, dustedwith the light that curvesacross the granite back of the Mojave,the kind of light you can smell.That night I dreamed I stoodbeneath the grandmother tree,theContinue reading “Love Poem at the End of a World”
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Track: “More Than a Woman,” Aaliyah
by Arianne Elena Payne VOICEMAIL POEMS · “Track: ‘More Than A Woman’, Aaliyah” by Arianne Elena Payne like the meat of a mango,i offer a proposition. i’ll give you the sweetest parts: waist of my neck,bridge of my laughter, coat of my inner thigh, shield of my intimacy.like the meat of a mango, i stickContinue reading “Track: “More Than a Woman,” Aaliyah”
Tiny Bones
by Christie Valentin-Bati VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Tiny Bones" by Christie Valentin-Bati Christie Valentin-Bati is (unofficially) a suburban kid from Florida now mostly grown up. Officially, she is a multi-genre writer and photographer interested in the everyday/mundane. Her work has received honorable mention in the 2022 and 2021 Academy of American Poet’s Poetry Contest, has beenContinue reading “Tiny Bones”
O(r)bit
by Daisy Clar Rosenstock VOICEMAIL POEMS · "O(r)bit" by Daisy Clar Rosenstock The next evening, I wake,still in mourning under thatafternoon’s thumb. “We arestrange creatures,” you said,“like Robert Grenier’s CICADA.”A whine in the late summer,blue and bright. A hollow skincrushed underfoot, here yetvery much there. Spring springsunderneath the down comforter—the hyacinths trying to growout ofContinue reading “O(r)bit”
Inceptus
by Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Inceptus" by Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras is of Zapoteco descent from Oaxaca, Mexico. She’s an aspiring poeta who is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio at Fresno State. You can find her on IG @ ceci_herm
The Race Recipe
by David A. Gaines VOICEMAIL POEMS · "The Race Recipe" by David A. Gaines David A. Gaines (he/they), also known as Dave G, is a Black writer, filmmaker and performer born and raised in the greater Philadelphia area. He is an award-winning and nationally touring poet, a fellow of The Watering Hole and holds multipleContinue reading “The Race Recipe”
Summer 2022
Tova Greene Kaydance Rice Tamara J. Madison Madeleine K. Corley Loisa Fenichell Felix Lecocq Mariah M Dev Murphy Eye Sinkhole Tabitha III Lucas Restivo Raymond Gibson LM Brimmer Aidan Aragon Shakeema Smalls Lisa Shen DeeSoul Carson
Safety
by Eye Sinkhole Tabitha III VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Safety" by Eye Sinkhole Tabitha III You read a book about spaceand call your walls a memoir You write a book about spaceand I call you safety I write a lovepoem and readers assume sex I write a love poemabout unpacking a room about building an unpackedContinue reading “Safety”
The Walk of Shame Aubade
by Aidan Aragon VOICEMAIL POEMS · "The Walk of Shame Aubade" by Aidan Aragon the moon, a loose sequin, danglesfrom the sky’s slack-jawed maw drooping lower and lowerwith each of my heavy-lidded blinks, feet dragging against the concreteagainst the inside of my ear slick and cold from the slip of his tongue,like my satin slipContinue reading “The Walk of Shame Aubade”
Tymbal
by Shakeema Smalls VOICEMAIL POEMS · “Tymbal” by Shakeema Smalls It helps that we do not rememberwhen light first opened our eyesthis old testament sunwarming the darkits nutritious sweet lingeringbefore even our bones.We trade places as a single bodythe daysong receiving usno pantomime orchestrawe who have risento sing, to love, to dieto timbal and vibratountilContinue reading “Tymbal”