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  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    I-765

    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
    Under the header Other Names Used are a series of collaged labels from a form with boxes filled in with poetic text. Under the header Other information are two boxes. One asks for the alien registration number. The answer is filled in as antigravity. The other asks for the SSN and is filled in as antisocial. Under a collaged header with the text Your Countries Citizen Nation Place of Birth are several boxes filled in with poetic text.
  • Audio
    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineHeritage Diner

    By Cheyenne Dakota Williams
    At the diner three little indians sit horizontally
    to each other at the bar seats.
    Two from Shiprock who…
  • Poem
    By Malcolm Tariq
    You may find her behind 

             Rowan Oak, a shadow 

                  of fortress where then now 

             you find no real entry place. 
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTwo Bills

    By Phil Kaye
    and yes it does beg
    the question why
    a nine-year-old needs
    two twenty-dollar bills still
    sticky and …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePrestige

    By Zoe Dorado
    All the second-gen immigrant Berkeley moms somehow all
    went to Stanford. I’m laughing because
    I want to…
  • Poem
    By Lis Sanchez
    At the gangway, our demand was a straw pava.
    We wore our demand jauntily cocked across our skull.
    So what…
  • Poem
    By Harryette Mullen
    My Mickey Mouse ears are nothing like sonar. Colorado is far less rusty than Walt's lyric riddles. If…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineLay It Bare

    By Anders Carlson-Wee
    I know you’re hungry for it.
    More money. More news. Desperate

    for any laurel that parades you
    as happier…
  • Poem
    By Cornelius Eady
    I’m here
                 to tell you 
                                 an old story. 
                                 This
    Appears to be
                     my work.
                                    I live
                                    in the world,
    Walk
             the streets…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Perry Janes on Hollywood, ego, and trying not to break his NDA.
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    According to the Study

    By Erin Belieu
    The rich report greater levels of happiness,
                                              & the study goes on to demonstrate
    how we humans use money to save...
  • Poem
    By Leia K. Bradley
    Marita, don’t tell me to pick one.
               I am either barefoot or wearing six-inch Pleasers—
    my gender is dirty-soled and naked or
           ...
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