Sarah Kobrinsky Algorithm You are reading this poem because it has similar content to other poems you have engaged with before. Sarah Kobrinsky‘s collection, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything, is forthcoming by New Rivers Press (Autumn, 2019).
Read MoreJames Hamby Age 14 He remembered how when he first studied Latin the kitchen grew so cold around midnight. James Hamby would one day like to keep chickens.
Read MoreJames Hamby Age 6 Sitting under his tree at recess, he wondered why being alone made him both happy and sad. James Hamby would one day like to keep chickens.
Read MoreIan Willey Red Bandana If I set off on my run early enough I sometimes see that woman with the red bandana coming back from her walk, arms swinging, full of smiles, her legs long and painfully thin, like the screech of a pheasant staking out its territory, somewhere in the brush on the edge […]
Read MoreIan Willey Rubber Band It’s hard to believe now but we don’t have any pictures from those days on the lake, nor does mom remember them, and my brothers were too young, so that leaves me and my memories of corn on the cob and a steaming cauldron, plus one little thing that somehow ended […]
Read MoreIan Willey Replicants I’m not sure when it happened but someone has replaced our son with a simulacrum, possessing the same DNA and general knowledge but without the will to utter more than a syllable or two when pressed, minus any interest in any of his previous obsessions like the flight routes of major airlines […]
Read MoreSarah Kobrinsky The First Meteorologist She stepped out of her dark cave in her bare feet and her deerskin shift, sucked the index finger of her right hand, then thrust it into the sky. Sarah Kobrinsky‘s collection, Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything, is forthcoming by New Rivers Press (Autumn, 2019).
Read MoreDebbie Peters Numbed Down With any fist a face can be punched leaving its owner gasping for air, her breath stolen in an act of violence so common in images created to entertain that no passerby even bothers to intervene. Debbie Peters lives in New York City and is an attorney by profession.
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