October Love - Aliyah Cotton
Aliyah Cotton is a queer poet of color from the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her...
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Defunkt Magazine
May 9, 20231 min read
An Open Letter to Dr. Frankenstein and Company
By Carson Sandell bluestone flesh stitched alive, mullers enameled in mica, he watches you dance on the concept of death with a stare...
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May 9, 20231 min read
CONFESSION
By Caitlyn Alario my abuser too could inhabit my mind. sometimes it felt we shared it together, my grey matter containing those secrets i...
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May 8, 20231 min read
LONG AGO
By Ellen Zhang Sometimes, my head fits perfectly between the curves of my mother’s chest. Echoing are the beats of longing. I picture my...
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May 8, 20232 min read
Mary Ball Washington
By Candria Slamin For the students of University of Mary Washington’s 2014 Student Transition Program Mary, do you remember when us...
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May 8, 20232 min read
The day I went cold turkey on smoking
By Gretchen Filart My daughter quipped, You have been saying that since last year. Capitalism enslaved me while washing its hands off...
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May 8, 20231 min read
To the Girl Who Just Found a Lump
By Sascha Cohen Wear all your favorite perfumes now: your Serge Lutens and your Frederic Malle Soon you’ll smell just like the hospital...
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Dec 6, 20222 min read
Baptize (verb)
By Kirsten Reneau To administer a baptism Ex: She baptizes herself during the summer, after she is left behind by a man she believed to...
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Dec 6, 20221 min read
Divinity
By Sarah Horner Godhood is just like girlhood: A begging to be believed. Kristin Chang Pearly drops pour down rouged cheeks—we are...
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Jul 12, 20223 min read
Poem by Keira Armstrong
are you the critic? every morning, we do nothing every morning, a page turns and i roll down a hill into an open mouth and blank palm...
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May 30, 20224 min read
Time Is a Mother Book Review
Title: Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong Pub Date: Available Now Written By: Elliot Eatinger Summary: Ocean Vuong’s sophomore poetry...
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Apr 25, 20223 min read
Confessing in verse: Escaping the Body, by Chloe N. Clark
Title: Escaping the Body, by Chloe N. Clark Pub date: March 7, 2022 Written By: Bruno Ríos So much has been written about the body that...
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Apr 18, 20226 min read
In Karasik’s Program for the Revolution, Gender is First to Go
Plenitude: Poems. by Daniel Sarah Karasik. Book*hug Press, 96 pp., $20, April 7, 2022, 9781771667357 Written by: Cy Pacht First of all,...
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Mar 14, 20225 min read
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head Book Review
Review: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire. Pub date 01 Mar 2022. Written By: Cy Pacht “No one leaves home...
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