The Sex Issue:
Spring 2013
Guest Edited by Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan

POETRY

Taylor Mardis Katz
rites of seepage
Wrapped in You I Am the Present

Sean Patrick Mulroy
demon blues

Scott Beal
The Snail Scene
Yes Yes Yes

Sasha Warner-Berry
Strapping It On

Sam Sax
cruising: a broken tiara
masturbating in the synagogue bathroom

Nic Alea
tops
spell book

Melissa Newman-Evans
The First Time You Fuck Your Best Friend's Mother

Laura E. Davis
The Boys Are Always Talking

Khary Jackson
Unauthorized Biography of Superfly, Poem #2: Sherrie

Hannah Oberman-Breindel
If You Asked About the Girl I'm Sleeping With
Lacuna (July)

Erika Meitner
Factography 3: First Love

Danez Smith
when he walks into my office he's greeted by his name
Dancing (in bed) with White men (with dreads)

Dana Koster
The Other Girls Who Write Wolverine Slash

Christina Olivares
Sunday Morning: Ars Poetica

BOOK REVIEWS

Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith
Reviewed by Kendra DeColo, Book Review Editor

allegiance by francine j. harris
Reviewed by Corrina Bain, Book Reviewer

Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words
Edited by Daphne Gottlieb and Lisa Kester
Reviewed by Lindsay King-Miller, Book Reviewer

To the Chapel of Light by Joshua Young
Reviewed by Jacob Victorine, Book Reviewer

Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan
Guest Editor

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"Because sex is so very common and weighted by norms, it tends to come with a pre-approved vocabulary and set of moral standards. I love poems that defy those standards and make their own vocabulary, poems that use sex as a lens through which to understand ourselves and our relationships, poems that want to communicate the human as a wanting creature." more...