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sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life

by Sarena Brown VOICEMAIL POEMS · "sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life" by Sarena Brown so you do the next best thingand you cut your hair you follow a youtube videoand a confident-man-hair-stylist-typeshows you how using a mannequin head and swift movements on your turn you take two ponytailsand the shittiest pairContinue reading “sometimes at 10:37pm you need to change your life”

Poem Written in iPhone Note via Voice to Text While Driving

by Jill McLaughlin VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Poem Written in iPhone Note via Voice to Text While Driving" by Jill McLaughlin Jill McLaughlin is a Maine-based writer whose work has appeared in Stonecoast Review, Pangyrus, and Channel: Ireland’s Environmental Literary Magazine. She is the recipient of a Martin Dibner Fellowship, an Ilgenfritz Scholarship, and a residency from AIR Litteratur VästraContinue reading “Poem Written in iPhone Note via Voice to Text While Driving”

My Last Summer with Dad, 2023

by Annie Powell Stone VOICEMAIL POEMS · "My Last Summer with Dad, 2023" by Annie Powell Stone Dad was on the couch, mostlystarving to death in front of uscancer, stage IV (for this type, many don’t catchthe earlier stages, and of coursethere aren’t later ones) we hung pinecone bird feeders closeto the house, bringing NatureContinue reading “My Last Summer with Dad, 2023”

Let’s Be Monsters

by Maia Brown-Jackson VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Let's Be Monsters" by Maia Brown-Jackson Let’s be monsters.Let’s be witches and bitchesand cronesand justhideous. Let’s be powerful.Let’s take and take and takeand grab the world,justfucking hold on with clawsand teethand refuse to let go. And let’s be gluttonous.Let’s devour.Let’s see what we want,what delights us,and let’s inhale itContinue reading “Let’s Be Monsters”

Keep your Popcorn on Fridays, We Want a Living Wage

by Jaime Jacques VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Keep your Popcorn on Fridays, We Want a Living Wage" by Jaime Jacques Three weeks to Christmas. We bide our timeon the line by conjuring posties of the past—side-burned and handcuffed, the ones in ‘81who dared to defy back to work orders.Got the whole country maternity leave. Now weContinue reading “Keep your Popcorn on Fridays, We Want a Living Wage”

guide to melancholy (ft. jar of olives)

by Annabelle Chen VOICEMAIL POEMS · "guide to melancholy (ft. jar of olives) by Annabelle Chen if you are sad: sit, silent, and bathe in the brine of an olive jar. let the salt consume you till you are preserved in acidity rather than memory, and the blood in your veins might well be thatContinue reading “guide to melancholy (ft. jar of olives)”

First Cumbia

by Tatiana Chaterji VOICEMAIL POEMS · "First Cumbia" by Tatiana Chaterji Tatiana Chaterji is an emerging writer, mother of two small children, educator, restorative justice practitioner, and healing-based theater arts facilitator based on Ohlone land in Oakland, CA. She was a 2017 Playwriting VONA Fellow. Her essays and poems are featured in Seventh Wave, The Rush Magazine, Panorama, TheContinue reading “First Cumbia”

Bench Clearing

by Marissa DeSantis VOICEMAIL POEMS · "Bench Clearing" by Marissa DeSantis My dad diedand sports came back.We wore masks at his funeralto avoid being next, I guess. The night beforeJoe Kelly fired at Carlos Correa’s headand cleared the benchand I get it,because what other response is there to feeling cheatedthan bearing witness to your hateContinue reading “Bench Clearing”