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.
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Sugar Bloom & Smudge
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”
Progressively Ambitious Poem for the Future
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”
Potato
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”
New York Summer
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”
Naked in Manhattan
by Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Naked in Manhattan" by Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro is a Venezuelan-American poet, dancer, and troublemaker. A 2025 CantoMundo fellow and Best of the Net nominee, their work has been published in American Poetry Review, La Revista Bilingüe, and elsewhere; featured by Brooklyn Poets and ONLY POEMS, and commissioned by the Center for Brooklyn History andContinue reading “Naked in Manhattan”
May 10th
by Jamie Hood VOICEMAIL POEMS · "May 10th" by Jamie Hood May 10thPerseverance is terminal,Every day dully getting up.The end times keep edging usBut I’m a Taurus—I prefer to comeAnd to go another round.They shot Katy PerryInto orbit, then let her back in.We turned the mission into memesTo stop thinking of burned old growth forests,BoilingContinue reading “May 10th”
Letter to the Editor of the Old Farmer’s Almanac, Robert Bailey Thomas
by Lauren Mills VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Letter to the Editor of the Old Farmer's Almanac, Robert Bailey Thomas" by Lauren Mills Lauren Mills is a student at Dartmouth College. She writes poems and plays. This poem previously appeared in The Chrysalis BREW Project.
Lawful Good
by Alexa Vallejo VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Lawful Good" by Alexa Vallejo Solidarity is pissingin adjacent stalls.A godly marriageis a throuple withChrist. Dude wasa real trove of swordlore. We cheered forthe biracial babies.At the racist wedding,the pastor praisedKorean cars &submissive wives.Cousins snuck liquorinto the dry receptionwhile sober Christiansgnashed their teeth.So began the diaspora.One spent a yearContinue reading “Lawful Good”
The Evolution of Missing You
by Juniper Danger VOICEMAIL POEMS · "The Evolution of Missing You" by Juniper Danger Juniper Danger is a Philly based queer poet and future science teacher. Sheloves filling her house with people and filling those people with soup. Youcan find her poetry and other work at @androjunous on instagram
