From After the Wild Iris by Iris McCloughan
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Excerpt from Romance or The End by Elaine Kahn (Soft Skull Press, 2020)
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From Points of Return by Mike Lala
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UNTITLED (LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT) by Coco Gordon Moore
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UNTITLED (LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT) i keep trying to reconnect with my slutty high school self but i think all the dick trauma has made this difficult. i am so turned on by this wall it drives me      crazy alone in this room the stupid sea smiles it was a while before i finally washed my sheets i wish i could remember                               the way                                      i used to   smell T ..read more
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Two Poems by Eleni Sikelianos
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Excerpt from CIVIL BOUND by Myung Mi Kim
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Excerpt from SOFT TARGETS by Deborah Landau
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from SOFT TARGETS ~ Into the sheets we slipped, a crisis  affixing us to each other again and again. Womb was I, turned out.  The babies were a transcript of our making,  a panorama of life on its back.  Thrice I plunked out the humans and hung them to dry until we’d had enough of such extravagant weather  and lay there thinking of the bed,  how much of life happens there. At the center of everything the piquant transitory joy  from this even the charred wrecks even the dahlmers nazis bin ladens all flesh  fleshed out of wild unmanageable Eros (we’re alw ..read more
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Excerpt From SoundMachine (Wave 2019) by Rachel Zucker
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YEAR OF THE RAT by Bridget Talone
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Revulsion turns my chest a sweating candy, sour and assertive. Each revolution laying down its stain. Baby, baby, baby, baby. A string inside me spoils. But I have no defense for what I will do next and undefended turn a silver blue. Hiss and sicken on the bulb.  The hot thud from light to laptop screen to window glass. An irritation set in loops.  I asked myself what did I love. I loved to make time go away. The post YEAR OF THE RAT by Bridget Talone appeared first on The Poetry Project ..read more
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Excerpt from A Century, a novel in progress by Ariel Goldberg
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      What decade was it, what president was to blame, what conversation tried to avoid the latest cruelty of language, on signposts and then on lips; how fear or rage was like a knob of volume, depending on the circumstances surrounding the shape of every hour of the life, so the adjustments would turn. It was almost too much to calculate. Both doors of their apartments were open and a group wandered towards Berenice’s studio.       “What is Berenice doing now?” someone asked to change the subject looking at a grey cloth draped over a table-top experiment. To kee ..read more
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