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In This Family All Parts Are Private Parts | Natalie Wang | Poetry Contest 1st Place Winner - Spring 2025
the first time i saw my parents holding hands, i was twenty-three. Â twenty-three years of bare bone arms wishing for flesh to be...
Jul 101 min read
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The Problem With Beauty Is It’s Never Enough | Caiti Quatmann | Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner - Spring 2025
one summer, my cousin came back from college & said i had grown into a beautiful girl. i remember because i was peeling the skin off a...
Jul 82 min read
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Secrets of the World | Kristy McCoy | Poetry Contest 3rd Place Winner - Spring 2025
There have always been men who I write home to—as if they were my father. Take Russ, my boss at this one store, in this one town where I...
Jul 61 min read
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Ball Game, July 4th. | Grace Thornsbury
the children in the new stadium don’t care how famous he is as long as he signs their hats in sharpie. i want to be  the boy collecting...
Jul 41 min read
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As heartbreak goes | Ashley Hardin
pain sinks the bones I used to know and rises the tongues I kissed before I knew you.                                                    ...
Jun 301 min read
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After | Michael Favala Goldman
The living room                                                            half-empty –             space where Daddy’s...
May 61 min read
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The Anatomy of Suffering | Deanna Horton
Nobody knows what to do with sad people. I remember this mostly on Tuesdays When my grandmother chews her tears, mopping grief In the dry...
May 22 min read
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Laser Hair Removal At the End of the World | Sarah Chin
I take comfort in knowing that if the world ended right now, in this very moment, my legs would be bare. There is some value in that, I...
Apr 301 min read
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Self-Harm | Margaret D. Stetz
scars encircling her wrist form a bracelet or a handcuff dark shapes like ash dropped randomly from a volcano scattered over legs and...
Apr 191 min read
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syconium | Amanda Nicole Corbin | Poetry Contest 1st Place Winner - Winter 2025
on more than one occasion, i make my mother cry. drunk at twenty-six, i do not tell her whether she is more garden or greenhouse, but i...
Apr 51 min read
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For Our Next Date | Hillary Smith-Maddern | Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner - Winter 2025
I packed a book of poems for us to read aloud in bed.    I want to hear your voice embrace syllables intended to metaphor the...
Apr 51 min read
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I Want Out of This Body | Sonya Cheney | Poetry Contest 3rd Place Winner - Winter 2025
dust particles float through the air in a stream of light across the bedroom floor landing like soft kisses on skin (my wretched skin)...
Apr 51 min read
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