WHERE POETRY AND POP CULTURE COLLIDE!

Issue #14:  Putting a Band-Aid on 2017 With Sweet Nerd Poems

POETRY

BRIANNA ALBERS
Poem For Rebecca Bunch

NICOLE CONNOLLY
They Are Shooting the New Season of American Horror Story in the Busiest Intersection

E.J. SCHOENBORN
Transdroids
In Which I Become The Babadook
​Kesha and I Beat the Shit Out of My Rapist

ADRIENNE NOVY
If The Honeybees Die, Then We Will Die With Them
Elliot Alderson Processes Grief For The First Time

JULIA GASKILL
the wembling of a muppet fan’s heart.
in which giles explains to buffy what she means to him.
it was only a matter of time before I wrote this poem.

MYLES YATES
Mr. Erasure 
    (Erasure of Mr. Lonely by Tyler The Creator)

YALIE KAMARA
Kyrie Irving Explains The Flat Earth

CAIT WEISS ORCUTT
Adoro Te Destruction
Adoro Te Raging

JESSICA LEE
First Exposure
Dress Up / Reconciliation in Gilmore Girls
Marital Troubles in The Donna Reed Show​

JAMES GOLDSWORTHY
New Krypton
After Superman: Brainiac

CHELSEA BODNAR
Samara
This is getting old for the dead girl, too (Samara redux)

BRYANNA LICCIARDI
RuPaul And I Break Up With My Boyfriend

DANIEL GARCIA
ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE IN WHICH EVERYONE IN KINGDOM HEARTS HAS MANDATORY COURT ORDERED FUCKING THERAPY

J. BAILEY HUTCHINSON
Magical Girl
       for Mami Tomoe, beheaded
The Great Saiyagirl
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VINCENT TORO
Algorithmiac​

KIERAN COLLIER
Slugger
Earth 2
Speed Mirage

ERIC DELP
109: Wherein Blind Optimism Is One of Dawson's Faults Along With Tiresome Romanticism
111: Wherein Dawson Is So Oblivious

RACHAEL GAY
To Yoko, To Courtney
i rescue them from the headlines

RHAEL LIONHEART CAPE
A Sunday Morning in 2004

SARAH NICHOLS
The Next Day
On Trying To Like Robert Z. for a Man

TAYLOR STEELE
If A Black Woman Became The Joker

ZEF LISOWSKI
Wolfsbane piled in the closet next to baseball caps.
       After Goosebumps #14: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, by R.L. Stine​

ALAN HARNUM
Robert Graves Explains the John Wick Movies to Me
A World War One Poet Responds to Wonder Woman​

OMAR HOLMON
Nikola Tesla Drops a Diss Lecture (Circa Smack URL)​

...and to close out this year, we bring you a special e-book bonus of holiday-inspired poems by FR contributor ERIC SIROTA!   Click on the cover image and enjoy Eric's take on HOLY DAYS!

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FICTION-ISH

AMANDA QUINN
Morpha

EMILY CAPETTINI
​ A Letter Concerning the Fire Damage Done to the Front Parlor, on the Twenty-Fifth ofJune, 1891, to the Famous Detective, Esq. To Be Left Until Called For

MICHAEL VAN KERCKHOVE
A Love Poem for Sleepaway Camp​

WHEELER LIGHT
​What does Batman have to do with this?

THOMAS O'CONNELL
Arguing with Social Media about Your Demise​

NATASHA CABOT
Q*Bert's Lament

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