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​​

​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

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

​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