DECEMBER 2017
Issue 21

​POETRY

Canese Jarboe
Erica Jong Said, “If a Woman Wants to be a Poet,
She Must Dwell in the House of the Tomato,”
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​Brandon Melendez
I Feel Most Like Myself with Painted Nails

Matty Layne Glasgow​
Texas was a time that never moved forward
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Sam Rush
Sonnet for cock sucking & baptism
Sonnet for acoustic feedback looping
& transgender media representation

Steven Sanchez
​On Birth

​Destiny O. Birdsong
but some men call out the rapists

Nicole Callihan
​all the good poems these days

Lucy Wainger
Postcard
​Gold Rush, 2013​​

​S. Brook Corfman​
​The Revenants

​Brian Clifton
What We Did in The Meantime
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​​Paige Lewis
X Is Yellowing Down
St. Francis Disrobes​ 

Kristin Chang
a postcolonial portrait of the girl loving a girl

​Alfredo Aguilar
While Looking Back on the Planets

Anita Olivia Koester
Hotel Eden
Venus in Art Therapy
​Love as a Dangerous word

Sojourner Ahebee
​​Ghosts

Jane Morton
Self Portraits in Retrospect

Nabila Lovelace
​When Your Vice Is a Man
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​​Ellen Kombiyil
Freesia 
​Vixen Lessons
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Dave Harris
​My Father's Hands

Claire Skinner
​Laura's Vibrator
​Monsoon Laura
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REVIEWS

I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On
by Khadijah Queen
Reviewed by Claudia Cortese

Pecking Order
by Nicole Homer
Reviewed by Irène Mathieu

Unaccompanied
by Javier Zamora
Reviewed by Willy Palomo

Good Stock Strange Blood
by Dawn Lundy Martin
Reviewed by C. Bain


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