Dustin Luke Nelson's Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln teaches us some new facts about our 16th president. In these poems, Lincoln spends hours fixing his hair, tells stories around the campfire, and takes capture the flag very seriously. ($2) [vol 33]
Sarah Bridgins's We Are Not Pilgrims
We Are Not Pilgrims by Sarah Bridgins is a short collection of poems about the exhaustion of living life with all apertures open. In a world that's too bright, these poems feel sad about slice and bake cookies, have sex near the beach but not on it, eat muesli for dinner and go to bed at 10. ($2) [vol 32]
We Are Not Pilgrims by Sarah Bridgins is a short collection of poems about the exhaustion of living life with all apertures open. In a world that's too bright, these poems feel sad about slice and bake cookies, have sex near the beach but not on it, eat muesli for dinner and go to bed at 10. ($2) [vol 32]
Jess Heaney's Impervious Corridor
Jess Heaney's Impervious Corridor uses a somatic exercise, steady breath, and sheer force of will to rip up the concrete that covers the creek that flows under Oakland. The poem holds dirt in its hand, summons animals and plants and history out of the privately owned land. ($2) [vol 31]
j/j hastain's from female he and correlational femme
j/j hastain's from female he and correlational femme talks about the body as a space based in possibility. The lovers touch in order to name. The lovers name in order to recognize. ($2) [vol 30]
Neila Mezynski’s Meticulous Man
Neila Mezynski’s Meticulous Man is a series of 17 short portraits written in elegantly fragmented language. These men are described in glimmering shards of sentences: Soft edge lightway shine. ($2) [vol 29]
Matt Mauch's The Brilliance of The Sparrow
Matt Mauch's The Brilliance of The Sparrow is a small collection of poems that find grace in the Midwest, its tornadoes, its driveways, and its leftovers for breakfast. ($2) [vol 28]
Thurston Moore's By The Lightswitch
Thurston Moore's By The Lightswitch is a poem about hanging out. It hangs out with stars, it hangs out with girls, and it wants to hang out with you. "Rockstars can't be poets / which sucks," but you wouldn't know that from reading this. ($2) [vol 27]
Diana Hamilton's The Crying Library
Hamilton's The Crying Library is a soggy catalogue of literary crying. Let's groan. Let's sob. Let's get swept up in a cyclone of tears. Let's get blurred and inflamed and morbidly alluring. ($2) [vol 26]
Jedidiah Clarke's The Time I Busted My Ear
Jedidiah Clarke's The Time I Busted My Ear is a play about a guy with a hearing problem, his ex-girlfriend, and a Subway sandwich gift card. Keith, Thelma, and the Sandwich Artist speak in an infectiously candid slang that will make you say WOAH. ($2) [vol 25]
Zack Tuck's Linty Love
Zack Tuck's Linty Love is a short poem about finding out what love is and keeping it in your pocket. ($1) [vol 24]
Ryan W. Bradley's Love and Rod McKuen
Inspired by McKuen's intensely sentimental verse, Ryan W. Bradley's five-poem series tackles the pain of paper cuts, the warmth of sitting in a fireplace, and -- of course -- deep-breathing, lip-trembling love. ($2) [vol 23]
-->nging You’ve got me fired up, fired up/ You’ve got me so/ You’ve got me fired up, fired up/ You’ve got me so. ($2) [vol 11]
Lauren Ireland's Olga & Fritz
Inspired by a terrarium, Lauren Ireland's Olga & Fritz is about teenage lovers who lie down in moss, their daydreams and their breakfasts. Olga & Fritz are never afraid. ($2) [vol 22]
Brenda Iijima's from UNTIMELY DEATH IS DRIVEN OUT BEYOND THE HORIZON
The poems in from UNTIMELY DEATH IS DRIVEN OUT BEYOND THE HORIZON speak about death without resorting to elegy. They take the bus. They travel. ($2) [vol 21]
Jackqueline Frost's The Soft Appeal
Jackqueline Frost's The Soft Appeal spins text from OkCupid into gold. How do we talk about identity from a place of abjection? We say "cannibal holocaust, cocteau twins." We say "perfect size hands." We say "you should probably stop reading now." But we don't really mean it. ($2) [vol 20]
Sparrow's Crumbs from My Cabana
Sparrow's Crumbs from My Cabana is a collection of short poems. RIYL Brautigan, dreaming, or two-cat poems. ($2) [vol 19]
Thom Donovan's small collection of poems, She's Lost Control Again
Inspired in equal parts by the Joy Division song and Mika Rottenberg's multimedia work "Squeeze," Donovan's poems investigate the relationship between body and product. The poems are "A tale of power / Told by the soul at work." ($2) [vol 18]
Sarah Fontaine's Sunday Is Waiting
Sunday Is Waiting is a breathtaking lyrical prose piece about bluebells. And sad bluebells, which is even better than regular. And art, life, death, love, etc. With thorough annotations by the author. ($2) [vol 17]
Adam Tobin's Any group can claim responsibility and other poems
Adam Tobin's Any group can claim responsibility and other poems
Any group can claim responsibility and its companion poems are poisoned wellsprings of received wisdom. When I find gum in my mouth, I chew. ($2) [vol 16]
Feng Sun Chen's long poem, The Jam Jar
"If I don't try all the time I tend to stop existing." The Jam Jar is a record of her constant efforts, featuring birds, feathers, pubic hair, puns, jam, Adderall, the passing of time, heart and soul, and LIFE AT LARGE. ($2) [vol 15]
Nate Pritts' poetry chapbook, Sentimental Spectacular
These poems are romantic and Romantic. These poems want to give you flowers, call you Darling Darling Darling, count the number of snowflakes in your hair. These poems are sentimental and spectacular. ($2) [vol 14]
Claire Becker's poetry chapbook, We Know in 2010, We Survive
Becker's We Know in 2010, We Survive is a long poem about "living / the interim." In between Christmas and earthquakes, a cliff and a staircase. ($2) [vol 13]
Nate Logan's poetry chapbook, Arby's Combo Roundup
Logan's Arby’s Combo Roundup® is the poem for people hungering for a unique, better tasting alternative to traditional fast food poems. It’s the favorite poem for people who crave something different and better. Serving one-of-a-kind menu items, Arby’s Combo Roundup is well known for slow-roasted and freshly sliced roast beef sandwiches and famous Market Fresh sandwiches, wraps and salads, made with wholesome ingredients and served with the convenience of a drive-thru. ($2) [vol 12]
John Sakkis's poems, You Can't Ignore My Techno
Sakkis's poems will leave you with hard house in your heart and glitter on your cheeks, si
These poems are romantic and Romantic. These poems want to give you flowers, call you Darling Darling Darling, count the number of snowflakes in your hair. These poems are sentimental and spectacular. ($2) [vol 14]
Claire Becker's poetry chapbook, We Know in 2010, We SurviveBecker's We Know in 2010, We Survive is a long poem about "living / the interim." In between Christmas and earthquakes, a cliff and a staircase. ($2) [vol 13]
Nate Logan's poetry chapbook, Arby's Combo RoundupLogan's Arby’s Combo Roundup® is the poem for people hungering for a unique, better tasting alternative to traditional fast food poems. It’s the favorite poem for people who crave something different and better. Serving one-of-a-kind menu items, Arby’s Combo Roundup is well known for slow-roasted and freshly sliced roast beef sandwiches and famous Market Fresh sandwiches, wraps and salads, made with wholesome ingredients and served with the convenience of a drive-thru. ($2) [vol 12]
John Sakkis's poems, You Can't Ignore My TechnoSakkis's poems will leave you with hard house in your heart and glitter on your cheeks, si
Leigh Stein's small collection of poems, Summer in Paris Stein's Summer in Paris will take you to Paris (bien sur!), to the personals column, and finally into the arms of Mr. Right. There is no Russian word for fun, but these poems aren't in Russian! ($2) [vol 10]
Matthew Savoca's long poem, Thousands and Thousands of YearsSavoca's Thousands and Thousands of Years is an exploration of relationships over time, punctuated by cayenne pepper sneezes. It's time to get serious. ($2) [vol 9]
Lily Ladewig's poems, You Are My Favorite Person of the Year
Congratulations! Ladewig has written these poems for you. You and your tuna sandwich, your partial nudity. You and your tennis racket strung with heartstrings. ($2) [vol 8]
Seth Landman & Lewis Freedman's poems, Osagee Icarus Landman & Freedman wrote Osagee Icarus collaboratively -- letter by letter. Their poems, "directly in hallucination," make "buttermilk the acceptance of huge joy." ($2) [vol 7]
Anna Vitale's long poem, Breaststa Vitale's Breaststa is a meditation on tits. Breathalyzer tits? Hannah Arendt tits? Zero Star Hotel tits? Yes. ($2) [vol 6]
Kendra Grant Malone's story, Laura
Malone's Laura is a story about a girl who asks why can't I dream normal? and the answers she finds. Or doesn't find. ($1) [vol 5]
Brandon Brown's From The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus
Brown's From The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus exposes a lesser-known side of the Roman poet: wake-and-bake, tunic boners, etc. Mucho otium! ($2) [vol 4]
Adam Moorad's poetry chapbook, Herbal Essence
Moorad's Herbal Essence is a collection of five poems that know the metaphorical potential of chicken McNuggets and good water pressure. ($2) [vol 3]
CA Conrad's (Soma)tic poetry exercise & poem, Touch Yourself for Art
Conrad's Touch Yourself for Art reinvents ekphrasis in the stall of an art museum bathroom, and explains how you can, too! ($2) [vol 2]
Katherine Valentine Jaeger's A Museum of American Tools
Jaeger's Museum is a short collection of found poems about tools. ($2) [vol 1]
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