Archive

• “Form, for me, is thinking”: An Interview with Caroline Crew
• “When I’m Trying to Listen,” by Martha Silano
• “When Black People Get to Swim in Chicago” by Matthew Johnson
• “The Riot Grrrls get Juvéderm, drunkorexia, and other tales” by Sofia Maher
• “Imagine the Saints’ Less-Famous Siblings,” by Gary Leising
• “Reading Osip Mandelstam in Zion National Park” by Christian Teresi
• “Bad Representative” by Drew Krewer
• “A way forward that does not pretend the past was different than what it was”: An Interview with Rushi Vyas
• Two Poems by Shane Allison
• “I don’t write fairy tales”: An Interview with Gina Cruz, aka Mimi
• “Creation” by Jessica Goodfellow
• “On Trying to Write about the World During a Poetry Workshop” by Meghan Adler
• “Falsified Reality 12/19/2019” by Micah Zevin
• “Eavesdropping on a Self-Lecture” by Andy Fogle
• “That’s the skill, I think: to allow yourself to fail and learn how to keep going”: An Interview with Emilie Menzel
• “It’s beautiful. It’s stupid. It’s not practical, but I loved it.”: An Interview with Matt Caprioli
• “Tip Cup in the Dive Bar” by Thad DeVassie
• “Everything’s Changed” by Anthony Aguero
• “Liminal Space” by Esther Sun
• “I’m not lazy I just don’t want to work anymore” by Kelly Mullins
• “Pocked” by Cheryl Aguirre
• “Payne’s Gray Pandemic Ponderings” by Diane Payne
• “The Doors” by Michelle Bitting
• “After Reading Keats’ ‘Ode on Melancholy’ in Late February” by Meghan Sterling
• “Still Life with Dirty Windows” by Lauren Camp
• “Everyone comes to erasure for different reasons”: An Interview with Isobel O’Hare
• “Spring Catalogue” by Michael McNally-Costello
• “Coda” by J.D. Smith
• “June 13th, They Say” by Michael Ansara
• “Literal” by Josh Lefkowitz
• “Poem” by Laura Carter
• “365 X 365” by Robert Krut
• “Waiting Room” by Maggie Yuan
• “Crônica of the Hermit” by Rone Shavers
• “Glissando” by Phillip Shabazz
• “In the Weeks Before DBS” by Carol Graser
• “It’s Finally Spring” by Sarah Lilius
• “Osama Bin Laden Es Dead” by Daniel Spielberger
• “our pain doesn’t need to be lonely”: An Interview with Joanna C. Valente
• ‘Disconnected’: A Discussion with Young Queer Voices on the Social Impacts of COVID-19 by Jay Roundtree
• “2020 Confessions” by Kari W
• Special Feature: F*ck 2020
• “Echo, with Pandemic” by Jen Karetnick
• “When the shit’s about to get real” by Juliana Gray
• “Rx for COVID-19 Grief Relief” by Christopher G. Jones
• “Third Wave” by Guillermo Filice Castro
• “One Day at a Time” by Susan diRende
• “Year in Review” by Daniel Romo
• “heavy spring” by Darren C. Demaree
• “The Invitation from My Shower” by Tracey Knapp
• “I Just Need All the Skinned Knees Right Now” by Tiffany Grayson
• “What Will Survive” by Tom C. Hunley
• “Zoom Meeting Etiquette” by Tom Daley
• “MAZES // OF // MY // MIND” by Monica Kim
• “Baking Challah on Grandma Tudi’s Yahrzeit” by Carly Sachs
• “My Immune System Ignites a Forest Fire on my Face, aka A Pandemic Stress Pantoum” by Valerie Nies
• “Origins” by Kindra McDonald
• “Class of 2021” by Cheryl Aguirre
• “F*ck You, Year of Covid” by Carol H. Jewell
• “Beyond the Event Horizon” by Brenda Nicholas
• “Wreckage” by Danny Shot
• “The Year That Burned” by Brett Petersen
• “Screen Dump 504 The World Fills” by Tom Corrado
• “Everyone Goes Outside Scared to Supermarkets” by Matthew Lippman
• “2020 Reading List: Going To Be a Great Year” by Laine Derr
• “Guru” by Peter Conners
• “Dead End” by Margot Douaihy
• “Entries from The Pandemic Diaries” by Adrian S. Potter
• “The Virus” by Greg Wilder
• Special Feature: F*ck 2020 Editors
• “Umbra” by James H. Duncan
• “Michael Bolton: A Physical Education” by Eddie Kim
• “It’s Loneliness” by Mary Warren Foulk
• “Setting Up the Debate” by Erik Kennedy
• “Isolation // Description of Upstate New York” by Lisa Mottolo
• “I’ve Seen All Good People” by Steve Kistulentz
• “Woman with Alabaster Jar” by Amanda Auchter
• “from Jezebel: ‘Map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Name for Girls, State by State’” by Jennifer Martelli
• “I Go Back to October 2018” by Janet Dale
• Four Concrete Poems by S Cearley
• “Contronym Diner” by Cynthia Atkins
• “Your Party” by David Kirby
• “You Ain’t Shit” by Courtney LeBlanc
• “Instructions” by Dave Nielsen
• “How Brilliant Beethoven” by Sarah Sarai
• “Small Wins” by Riss
• ‘behind wisdom lies wild women in the woods: Eurus O Iris is her name’ by Edward Rinaldi
• “You’d Be Great at What I Do” by Jill Dalton
• “Elegy” by Emma Bolden
• “Fleur’s Morning Thoughts/‘My Hercules’”by Amiah Taylor
• “Nighttime is for vices” by Juliet Lauren
• “genealogy of anger” p. hodges adams
• Two Poems by Oswaldo Vargas
• Two Judge Judy Poems by Jen Karetnick
• “The Takoyaki Vending Machines and I” by antmen pimentel mendoza
• Two Poems by Akhim Alexis
• “The Maddest of Avenues,” by Michael Allen Potter
• “Egg Hunt” by J.G. Russell
• “Advice for Taking Care of Your Girlfriend’s Dog” by Ace Boggess
• “Selected Poems” by Adam Tavel
• Two Poems by Tim Suermondt
• “August” by CL Bledsoe
• “A Sestina for My Father’s Funeral” by Sunita Theiss
• “Trying Not to Contemplate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Over Microwave Noodles” by Ethan Brightbill
• “Try Something: What Have You Got to Lose—I Mean, Love” by CB Auder
• “When inspiration calls, you have to answer”: An Interview with Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
• “We have a duty to our ancestors to survive”: An Interview with David A. Romero
• “The Tunnel” by Steve Mueske and Kevin Solie
• “This time the human is the one who dies” by Cali Kopczick
• Three Pieces by Mike James
• Three Prose Poems by Lori Cramer
• Two Poems by Lisa Lewis
• Three Poems by Christopher Blackman
• “Poetry has a net good for our communities and our kinship practices”: An Interview with Kinsale Hueston
• “Odom, the Teddy Bear” by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
• “Through the Air” by Thaddeus Rutkowski
• “preservation” by Jessica Kim
• Two Poems by Luis Pabon
• From “Today in the Taxi” by Sean Singer
• “The Treasure in Another Woman’s Trash” by Pietra Dunmore
• “Minneapolis” by Rob Bracks
• “2019.03” by Bradley J. Fest
• “I Have Smoked Way Too Many Blunts to Write a Memoir” by Adrian Ernesto Cepeda
• “Light From a Thousand Stars” by Cathy Ulrich
• “Don’t Leave the Lake” by Cate Peebles
• “Night Time Ice Cream” by Stephanie Maria Athena Valente
• From The States Project by David Kirschenbaum and Sean Cole
• Three Poems by Maureen Thorson
• “Untitled” by Amber Nelson and Kohl King
• Two Poems by Suzanne Frischkorn
• “I have never really considered myself a Poet”: An Interview with Matthew Lippman
• “One Day I’d Like To Live In A World Without Alarm Clocks” by Kelli Russell Agodon
• “Sally = mastodons, we’ve forgotten them both!”: An Interview with Christina Olson
• “Like a lot of men in our society, I didn’t grow up with great role models”: An Interview with Scott Edward Anderson
• “It’s possible to find a temporary stopping point”: An Interview with Sarah Green
• Three Poems by Ellen Hagan
• “A poem’s life is created only after it’s let loose in the world”: An Interview with Melissa Stein
• “Planet X” by Kristin LaFollette
• ‘Slam Poetry is a confrontation that is intimate, theatrical, and a gospel sermon’: An Interview with Regie Cabico
• Four Poems by Regie Cabico
• “When you lose someone, it’s a very public event”: An Interview with Kerrin McCadden
• “Sometimes, in life, what we meant to be and what we are becomes a kind of performative autocorrection”: An Interview with Elizabeth Powell
• “I plan on writing poetry for the rest of my natural life”: An Interview with D. Colin
• “The persona or the voice is the source of the freedom”: An Interview with Lisa Andrews
• “2007” by Tom McAllister
• ‘Any common object is a sidelong window into other issues’: An Interview with Sonya Huber
• “The external stimuli that motivate and inspire me”: An Interview with Brett Petersen
• Magical Thinking in The Time of Pandemic
• “Unicorn Ring” by Tricia Marcella Cimera
• “Hope for Flint” by Tanasha Martin
• Six Poems by Linda M. Crate
• “The Best Goodbye” by Kat Terban
• “I Got a Problem with Shel Silverstein’s Unicorns” by Jamie-Sue L. Ferrell
• Three Poems by Brian Chander Wiora
• “Maiden and Unicorn” by Ann Marie Sekeres
• Three Poems by Aaron Belz
• Special Feature: Unicorns
• Two Catalogue Work Pieces by Todd Colby
• “Legendary” by Vivian Faith Prescott
• “The Unicorn at the End of Time” by Ronald W. Pies
• “The Archer” by Raymond Luczak
• “The Cloven Road” by Bruce Robinson
• “The Rider” by Brandon Bagwell
• “The Creator endowed the unicorn with a special purpose”: An Interview with Alfonso Colasuonno
• Two poems by Michael Chang
• Special Feature: Unicorns Editors
• “The grotesque is what repulses and attracts you at once”: An Interview with Dylan Krieger
• “Where You Will Find It” by Danielle Epting
• “I need to live to have anything to say”: An Interview with Amber Nelson
• “Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Allison” by Lori Lamothe
• “Thief, Ohio” by David Dodd Lee
• “Goldilocks on Craigslist” by Meg Yardley
• Two Psalms by Clay Matthews
• “Magical Realism” by Shira Dentz
• “Then and Now” by Stephen Furlong
• “The Gravity of the Situation” by Zeke Jarvis
• “Nightmared” by Annie Stenzel
• “The Island” by Alex J. Tunney
• “My Moon Book” by Jordan Davis
• “I’ve learned that my experience is my experience and that perhaps there’s comfort to others in articulating that”: An Interview with Oliver de la Paz
• Two Poems by Vivian Wagner
• “[My mother is suffering from uterine cancer and all I can think about are the 80s]” by Stephen Fellner
• Three poems by Julie Bloemeke
• Three Poems by Steven Cordova
• “So Now You Have To Write About the Dead Pheasant” by Karen Skolfield
• “Breaking the Fall” plus two poems by Taylor Mali
• “At The Casino” by Olivia Dunn
• “Lipstick for Your Vagina Is an Actual Thing Now” by Nicole Steinberg
• “Dating and Biking in San Francisco” by Tomas Moniz
• “Everywhere” by Sarah Browning
• Three Poems by JC Reilly
• “I grew up in a very non-nuclear family”: An Interview with Nicole Callihan
• Three Poems by Jeannine Hall Gailey
• “Bad News” by Amy King
• “A lot of corny shit is true”: An Interview with Jaime Fountaine
• Three pieces from “skirt disaster” by Marina Blitshteyn
• Excerpt from “The Couples” by Nicole Callihan
• “recipe for a massacre: tulsa 1921” by Quraysh Ali Lansana
• Excerpts from ‘Extant Fragments’ by steve dalachinsky
• “Schnitzel” by Rax King
• “A Highly Subjective and Sometimes Contradictory Alphabet for the Young and Aspiring Professional Writer” by Marc Spitz
• “Single” by Jaime Fountaine
• “Goodnight, Whoever You Are” by Michael Robins
• “Neighborhood Watch, circa 2009” by Susan Rukeyser
• “Enlightenment” by Virginia Konchan
• “What Are the Prospects?” by Amy Lemmon
• “‘Don’t Let Me Down’:  Eleven Facts About the Beatles” by Joanna Penn Cooper
• “A Room with a Prayer” by Karen Schoemer
• “For Coloreds Only” by Daniel Summerhill
• ‘It was by living out the theory that we enraged so many others’: An Interview with Michael Gottlieb
• ‘The first aeronauts were women shamelessly fornicating their way through the clouds’: An Interview with Kathryn Nuernberger
• “Become so fluid” by E. Kristin Anderson
• “Sweet Wolf #1” by Darren C. Demaree
• ‘Mythmaking, second-hand information, and outright lies’: An Interview with Sarah Sweeney
• From ‘The Good House and the Bad House’ by Doe Parker
• “Poetry trained me for the mosh pit of motherhood”: An Interview with Sage Cohen
• “Apotheosis” by Ainsley Pinkowitz
• “A Puppet Show On Top of a Puppet Show and Under a Puppet Show” by Rhoads Stevens
• “Night Songs” by Wale Owoade
• “The Gazers” by Neil Serven
• “Euphoria” by Logan Seidl
• “Summer Poem” by Bob Sykora
• “Wet” by Jen Knox
• “Brick” by William Bradley
• “He Didn’t Shoot” by E.K. Gordon
• “Stalin Resurrected” by James Valvis
• “One Maria, Two Maria, Three Maria, Four” by Catherine Prescott
• “Watching You Crumble” by Thom Francis
• “I Have Tried to Track This” by Sierra Jacob
• “Hope and Anchor”: An Interview with Joshua Corey
• “Time Space: Places They’ve Never Met” by Janet Dale
• “To blossom or diverge or dissipate or redirect”: An Interview with Brian Clements
• “What I am is a militant translator”: An Interview with Mitchell Abidor
• “Titanic Built for Two” by Sarah Sorenson
• “I don’t believe in rules or steps”: An Interview with Lavinia Greenlaw
• “The Person Seated Across the Aisle” by Kelsey May
• “Fire Drill” by Kevin Leonard
• “Cold in the Valley” by Anne Hohenstein
• “I’m not a big believer in talent”: An Interview with Rick Bursky
• “Hot Flash” by Caitlin McDonnell
• “Trains are actually great places to work”: An Interview with Matthew Thorburn
• “How to Watch John Ashbery Read Poetry” by James H. Duncan
• “Sometimes, the someplace else is the goal”: An Interview with W.B. Belcher
• “What Happened to Winona Ryder” by Erin McIntosh
• “Al The Dishwasher in the Underbelly” by Thadra Sheridan
• “Marriage Among Shapeshifters” by Miriam Axel-Lute
• “Serious Concerns So New This Is Untitled” by Jenna Cardinale
• “Another Letter to G.” by Sarah Boyle
• “How to Survive Your Inner Demons: Special Version for Writers” by Penny Perkins
• “The Sitter” by Charles O’Hay
• “Agitolalia” by Martha McCollough
• “My Robot Boyfriend” by Sarah Heller
• Excerpts from “Flesh Graphs” by Brynne Rebele-Henry
• “After Two Months” by Kris Bigalk
• “Savage and dangerous and smelly”: An Interview with Dennis Mahoney
• “It’s Just a Dream” by Justin Hamm
• “The Interview” by Sandra Faulkner
• “You make me so mad I want to punch babies”: An Interview with C.V. Hunt
• “Adaptation” by Rori Leigh Hoatlin
• “Learning to Teach Teachers to Teach Children About God” by Dan Ornstein
• “Radiation Day 4” by Ally Malinenko
• “Death, Sleep, Beauty” by Shaindel Beers
• “Big Cat” by Tom Bennitt
• “There is comfort in this orderliness”: An Interview with LB Thompson and Ellen Wiener
• “Enter Legend” from Fibonacci Monstrosity by LB Thompson and detail from “Longhand Forest” by Ellen Wiener
• “My Father’s Lesson” by Cheryl Smart
• “Seed, At Random” by Rebecca Beauchamp
• “DSM 300.4” by Elizabeth Yalkut
• “Aphorisms from Kosti’s Ramon” by Richard Kostelanetz
• “Another Ampersand Moment” by Ellen Noonan
• “Rape Tree” by Ed O’Casey
• “Bailing Hay by Headlight” by Sheryl Monks
• Two Poems by Michael Peters
• “No cheap shots”: An Interview with Sarah Hepola
• “Meyer May House” by Myron Michael
• “Sunday Series” by Clare Paniccia
• “Questions for the Arborist” by Lisa Bellamy
• “I won’t make excuses for them, and I won’t make excuses for myself, either”: An Interview with Nickole Brown
• “The World According to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-94” by M. A. Schaffner
• “I don’t know how to drive a car”: An Interview with Stevie Edwards
• “My God’s A Cold God” by Anthony Cappo
• “I don’t talk to ten-year-olds. They terrify me”: An Interview with Jonathan Greenhause
• “A Letter to the Watertown Community Players” by Ryan Napier
• “Weather” by Scott Edward Anderson
• “Maintenance Record” by Vivian Wagner
• “The Mayor’s Guide to Natural Disaster” by Jeffrey Morgan
• “If it weren’t for my brain I’d just go over and make friends”: An Interview with Elisa Albert
• “P.M. Dawn, ‘Set Adrift on Memory Bliss’” by Daniel Romo
• “I’m letting myself admit that I’m terrified”: An Interview with Sheila Squillante
• “20/20 vision” by Elizabeth Scanlon
• “Of Ducklings and Warren Zevon” by Joseph Hesch
• “Every cat needs a human…to rule over”: An Interview with Alison Nastasi
• “Coincidence” by Leonard Gontarek
• “The Missing Link” by Adam Jerome Williams
• “Stay in the chair and write your guts out”: An Interview with Shawn Rubenfeld
• “Smashed Pumpkin” by Carlyon Blackman
• “What Would John the Evangelist Do?” by Thomas Israel Hopkins
• “17 June 2007 / New York City” by Jessica Smith
• “Institutional systems of power indoctrinate us”: An Interview with Victorio Reyes
• “Seven Bachelor Party Ideas Rejected By My Friend, Joe (The Groom)” by Eric K. Auld
• “Lent” by William Cordeiro
• “What the Garden State Gave” by Laryssa Wirstiuk
• “I try to pledge allegiance to the voice in my head”: An Interview with Katie Byrum
• “Straight out the Sewer” by Maceo J. Whitaker
• “Lucky Charms” by Kevin Brown
• “2:00 AM” by Gabrielle Bates
• “Sakura” by Lori A. May
• “Chaos Theory” by Eric Burke
• “Enough Said” by Steve Finbow
• “Sextant” by Djelloul Marbrook
• “Utopia, Texas” by Tracey Knapp
• “A” by Sparrow
• “Pomegranate” by Carly Sachs
• “Ace of Spades” by Adam Tedesco
• “Green Bottle” by Stuart Bartow
• “You should know a little Dickens, Swift, Poe”: An Interview with Corey Mesler
• “The Baby” by Carley Moore
• “Written Response Requested”: A Collaboration with the Albany Public Library
• “The Night Sky” by Dan Wilcox
• “I’m generally inconsiderate of others and I like to strive for consistency”: An Interview with Tobias Seamon
• “Cape May” by Marilyn McCabe
• “I tend to be pretty obsessed with the human condition, I guess”: An Interview with Michael Meyerhofer
• “Mysterious Ways Alright” by Tim Suermondt
• “This is an essay question”: An Interview with Alan Catlin
• “Martha Admits She Was Angry” by Nancy White
• “Write like you play”: An Interview with Matthew Lippman
• “Addiction” by Matthew Lippman
• “Hey, Good Looking” by Gregory Pardlo
• “The Cut-Off” by Shawn Rubenfeld
• “Dear Critic,” by Stevie Edwards
• “A Medley of Extemporanea” by Tobias Seamon
• “Please Hold the Doors” by Jonathan Greenhause
• “Punchy the Clown Came to Visit” by Allie Marini
• “Telegraphing” by Victorio Reyes
• “Most of our lives are interpretation and the story we tell of it”: An Interview with William Stratton
• “Letter from my Mother” by Corey Mesler
• “State of Emergency” by Katie Byrum
• “My Lands Are Where My Dead Lie Buried” by William Stratton
• “My Dream Date with Diane Arbus” by Alan Catlin
• “Regrets are Upside-Down Celebrations” by Jade Sylvan
• “In Defense of Hipsters” by Michael Meyerhofer

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Image: “Senior Nurses watching TV at Seton Hall Saint Mary’s Hospital in Troy 1955,” from Albany Public Library History Collection