spring 2018
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Never the Desired Absence
Nick Alti
Sea Room / The Adrift
Exhibit / Queer
Lynx
Joseph Spece
Trump As a Fire Without Light #665
Darren C. Demaree
Wet Parable
Duck
Carver
Nathan Curnow
First Ultrasound
Second Ultrasound
Stephanie Yorke
He Ring Liar's Dice Confluence Derek Thomas Dew
The Path Discoverer
Taylor Bond
Naming
Cow Field
Danielle Hanson
Cracked Fabergé Egg Of Yes
Lauren Turner
Grim Reaper in Therapy
Brandon Marlon
Push
Armamentarium
Adrienne Gruber
Ice Skating in Holland Carol Hamilton
Dear Chepe
Wilbur
Melissa Weiss
an understanding
Natasha Zarin
Like André Derain
David R. Dixon
drowning man is not a superhero
Aidan Chafe
Synonyms For Shelter
Jill Talbot


Like André Derain
modern art reminds me of poetry.
both can be overt or clandestine—possessing a fantasy of untold connotations (depending on who’s paying attention)
in poetry, as in an abstract painting (or online dating I suppose), assuredly beauty is in the eye of the audience.
my mother encourages me that I am the Matisse of my generation of poets, ushering in a literary Fauvism—she implores me to imagine, create, and write with every discretionary moment.
my dad’s watching Cops and chimes in that my poetry is just like modern art...
most of it sucks.