banner illustration by CHRISTINE TEMPLETON
Issue #20: It's a new day, yes it is!
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LEE NANCE
Looking for Love in the Murder Capitol of the World |
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SHELLEY VALDEZ
the goddess of growl and radical vulnerability wears knee pads and rips out my spine |
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SARA HILL
The Wind Rises |
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NICOLE MARKERT
Ode to Boa Hancock |
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ADAM HART
Wisp |
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SARAEVE FERMIN
Diane Nyugen, Single, NYC Pickles and I, the Frat House, 2011 When Bojack Horseman says My Mother is dead and everything is worse now-- |
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STEPHEN LIN
Black Box Trading You Wouldn't Download A Car How Can There be a Civil War When the AI is Turned Offa |
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L.T. PELLE
Quentin Tarantino Comes To Dinner |
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ELISABETH GRAHAM
Lyric Poem from Carl Sagan to Ann Druyan |
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NICOLE CONNOLLY
Dream Job |
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ZEKE RUSSELL
Self Portrait As The Eighth Season Of NBC’s Medical Drama ER Self Portrait As The Major Key Remix of Smells Like Teen Spirit Ode To The Five Minutes During Which I Thought Judge Judy Was Dead Before I Found Out It Was An Internet Death Hoax |
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MYLES YATES
An Ekphrastic Sonnet based off the To Pimp A Butterfly album cover where Kendrick speaks to the baby he is holding. |
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LAURENCE HART
I Am Eleven Years Old when Scream is Released on VHS |
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COLETTE PARRIS
Ode to John Michael Higgins |
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ALICIA TURNER
unprompted, my friend’s daughter told me to “write a poem about Catwoman" |
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VALERIE LOVELAND
Unsolved Mysteries: Widower Husbands Unsolved Mysteries: Robert Stack is a Series of Tubes Unsolved Mysteries: Even Robert Stack Dies |
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ZEBULON HUSET
On the Doorstep of the Past as if Out of the Pale Blue Sky Watching Point Break (1991) in 2020 From the Canyons of Manhattan to the Steaming Jungles of South America (an erasure of Roger Ebert’s review for the film “Romancing the Stone”) |
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BENJAMIN ANTHONY RHODES
You should listen to Backwoods Barbie before you read this poem "Is that one of them marijuana cigarettes?" It's All Wrong, But It's All Right. |
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MICHAEL RUSSELL
-self-portrait as ophanimon / falldown mode -On Hearing Genie in a Bottle for the First Time |
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DYNAS JOHNSON
minecraft notes # auto-generator of origins |
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ROBIN GOW
My Boyfriend as American Psycho Self Portrait as Paranormal Activity |
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CATHERINE OWEN
On Becoming Obsessed by Vintage Fisher Price Toys During Quarantine |
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ACE BOGGESS
Eilen Jewell on Mountain Stage |
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JOSH LEFKOWITZ
Did I Do That (O, Yes, I Did) |
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TIM STAFFORD
Anthony Bourdain Takes me to a Punk show in 1979 |
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CHELSEA MARGARET BODNAR
Five Miami Vice Poems |
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MEG CALDWELL
Mac Miller & You Overdose, Ariana & I Meet at the Dog Park |
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JOSH CORSON
half-baked |
BONUS MATERIAL: HAWK AND ANIMAL #3!
You can't keep a good wrestling poetry zine down, at least not for a three-count. Click on the cover of H&A #3 to revel in a full issue of poems about professional wrestlers and the people who lose their voice cheering for them!
You can't keep a good wrestling poetry zine down, at least not for a three-count. Click on the cover of H&A #3 to revel in a full issue of poems about professional wrestlers and the people who lose their voice cheering for them!
