Issue #21:  pop poets, or maybe their variants!?

Banner Illustration by CHRISTINE TEMPLETON

ARIANNA MONET
​acidulated: an ekphrastic sonnet on the album cover of olivia rodrigo’s SOUR
I’m rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time

ROBBIE Q. TELFER
Tossed Salad, Scrambled Eggs
​If there’s something weird and it DO look good

ERICH HAYGUN
​When I Die Bury Me In The 2am Music From Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch

ELANA LEV FRIEDLAND
Marbleization is usually performed only for safety reasons.
glitter golem
        for Kesha

MIGUEL SOTO
Ode to House Parties and Fresh Kicks
​          After “Only Wanna Give It to You” by Elle Varner

CHRISSY MARTIN
When Victoria P. Sat Out The Bachelor Football Game 

BRITTANI TEL
peter parker (between buildings)
​miles morales

PAULA AAMLI
It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty
          After i) Regi Claire and ii) Amy Heckerling

GLEN ARMSTRONG
Big Enough

KATIE KEHOE
Dear Captain Janeway of the Starship Voyager

MICHAEL CANTIN
Self Portrait as the Dino Riders

ROBERT DONOHUE
Alternative Nights
Devil's Playground

MARGO STUTTS TOOMBS
Abecedarian - Cowboys at Gilley's

JERICHO HOCKETT
The horror of a melting (the Witch, traditionally the Magician tarot)

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HEATHER KNOWLES
Wow (Or, The Time I Served Owen Wilson Coffee)

SETH LOWE
The Omen (1976)

JACOB STRATMAN
Design

JONATHAN HUMANOID
Echo and I Get Drunk in A Gastropub and Loudly Commiserate About Past Relationships  

SHELEEN McELHINNEY
Ruth, from Ozark, comes over for Thanksgiving Dinner

QUINN CARVER JOHNSON
Cheap Heat // Action City
Before It Sets In
Adrian Street Wins the Mid-South Television Championship

THOMAS FUCALORO
Into the Spider-Verse Deleted Character: Charles Baudelaire Parker, The Loathsome Spider-Man

DJ HILLS
Summary of Animorphs Book 1: The Invasion

JUSTIN HOLLIDAY
Hate 1990