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Jan 11, 20214 min read
[Poetry] Five Poems by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
What the Full Moon Sounds Like to a Mean Fairy an ice tongue sliding down penguin wing slow melt sugary gas station slushie Bluebells not...
May 30, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem by Megan McCrea
Rosary Holding tight to the sweet smell of jasmine that hit me as I swung hard around the bend, so sudden, a pleasant apparition. Holding...
May 30, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem by Claire Epting
Shelter From The Storm by Claire Epting You’re safe. You’re safe. I love you and you’re safe. I repeat this over and over in my head as I...
May 30, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem by Simone Liang
I. Funny how reality can glitch in an instant, disrupting your normal the same way water-downed wifi broils your laptop hotter than the...
May 30, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem by Susan Dambroff
Stay Home, Take a Walk these days we scan for pleasure blooms of elm of pink cheeked camellias wildflowers on a city peak where dogs...
May 21, 20202 min read
#SIP - Poem by Ginger Yifan Chen
in addition to the grief by Ginger Yifan Chen in addition to the grief, we are now in memoriam of public places, of overheard...
May 21, 20201 min read
#SIP - Poem by Rich Ferguson
When the Song of Shadows Comes Calling Some days feel so heavy, like that final weight pallbearers carry to the grave. Yet, say the...
May 20, 20201 min read
#SIP - Poem by Marie Estelle Bland
Los Angeles by Marie Estelle Bland The smog soaked hills of my memory wrap me up, but I do not choke on the thickness of their embrace....
May 2, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem - by Dan Williamson
The Pandemic We All Needed Yesterday we ran through the woods and To keep busy I tried to guess what present you had ordered You assured...
May 2, 20202 min read
#SIP Poem - by Aiko Lozar
You, reader, grew up kind. You listened to your parents and you made your bed at times. You recycled at least once a week. You would sit...
Apr 26, 20201 min read
#SIP Poem - by Macy Lu
I Still Shave My Legs By Macy Lu I still shave my legs— though no stranger’s eyes shall glimpse them— pull razor over marble skin snatch...
Apr 25, 20201 min read
#SIP Poem - by Kevin Jackson
Deserted It hit unexpectedly like a camouflaged Snake slithering stealthily in the withered grass Penetrating the canopied organ around...
Apr 24, 20201 min read
#SIP Poem by K. Langtim
Kelly Langtim is an actor, writer, and Pisces. A midwest-raised nature and ice cream enthusiast, she is working on a memoir, several...
Apr 11, 20202 min read
#SIP - Poem by Maria Duarte
In the Luminous Moment The foil sheets fold into pieces like my heart folds into squares arteries not needed stop pumping blood, arteries...
Apr 5, 20201 min read
#SIP - Poem by Angel Zhong
"Angel Zhong is a freshman Psychology and English double major at the University of the Pacific and a lover of all things literary. In...
Apr 2, 20201 min read
#SIP - Poem by Giovanna Zavala
In this poem I go crazy Turning off all the lights and brushing my teeth and deleting Every naked picture I have of myself. Throw all my...
Mar 26, 20201 min read
#SIP Contest - Poem by Paul Wilner
MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY (with apologies to Frank O’Hara) By Paul Wilner “I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless...
Mar 25, 20202 min read
#SIP Contest - Poem by Damien Belliveau
I Think I Love You, Quarantine by Damien Belliveau Can we quarantine forever, please? Can we slow things down and have nowhere to go and...
Mar 24, 20201 min read
#SIP Contest Poem by Evan Borboa
The sun never came Instead: Rain The sky covered In a blanket of velvet, Glistening with water. A goddess weeps, A sad mother Sees the...
Mar 20, 20201 min read
#SIP Contest - Poem by Cooper Gillespie
“For Hugging My Friend Susan” The severity of our situation struck me The night my friend Susan arrived “Heyyyyyyyy! So good to see you!”...
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