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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

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”

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

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”

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”

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”

by Lucas Restivo VOICEMAIL POEMS · “Sexy Till the End” by Lucas Restivo Lucas Restivo is a writer from Massachusetts. If you venmo him $5 with a topic (@Lucas27), he will write you a custom haiku.

by DeeSoul Carson VOICEMAIL POEMS · "What's Going On" by DeeSoul Carson DeeSoul Carson  (He/They) is a Black queer poet, performer, and educator from San Diego, CA. A The Watering Hole Writing Workshop Fellow, his work has been featured by Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, The Adroit Journal, & elsewhere. He graduated with aContinue reading “What’s Going On”

by LM Brimmer VOICEMAIL POEMS · "The Duck" by LM Brimmer O, my therapist, wants me to talk about anything other than workSo I describe the photo’s silvering: its fingered edges,Feathered. Describe the city, a porous pond, the floating duck. O insists it’s just projection, a protective coat and marks my missivesGeneric, or worse—tedious. WhenContinue reading “The Duck”

by tova greene VOICEMAIL POEMS · "a home made of hip bones" by tova greene tova greene (they/them) is a non-binary, queer, jewish poet who recently graduated with a BA from sarah lawrence college in yonkers, new york. they are the author of the collection lilac on the damned’s breath (bottlecap press, 2022). after interningContinue reading “a home made of hip bones”