our annual guest by Sameeya Maqbool
Sameeya’s poetry explores her experience of cultural hybridity as a British Pakistani woman of Islamic faith. […]
Tag: poem
Poem with Tiramisu, Sibling Past Thirty-Eight by Jon Riccio
Poetry | We eat at Olive Garden after learning if our father / had stronger kidneys a portion of his intestines
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Poet Trying On A Western by Leslie Grollman
Poetry | Leslie’s asking the important question: why not…? […]
Take It from Someone Who Knows by Hanna Thomas Uose
Poetry | Hanna teaches you how to love yourself. […]
Onomatopoeia of Lost Words by Maryam Gowralli
Poetry | Maryam draws inspiration from her diasporic Trinidadian-Indian and Indonesian tribal heritage. […]
Portra by the Sea by Autumn Stiles
What of the fisherman skulks / in your heart? / What husks of hull sit rusting / ironed dull by sea over / sand over sea?
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Anorexic Erotic Dream by Becca McGilloway
In a bathtub / rimmed in lime / basil salts, I take / a spoon
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Whip Stitch by Becca McGilloway
I used to sew / along the edge of my body / – to interrupt / the Mare unraveling / my stitched skin. […]
John the Baptist as Whale by Josie Jocelyn Deane
There are two elements: / The voice and the wilderness of / Ocean — both thoroughly defined / though one, more wholly —
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Well-Tempered by Meghan Purvis
I am tremendous fun at dinner parties / I say this as a joke but it’s true, I talk / and hardly pause for breath, a ticking metronome / of story punchline setup story and only rest a moment
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