changing of the tides - Emma Conlon
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I follow your footsteps down to the shore / your golden hair waving in the sea breeze / you sway with the crashing waves...
Mag 20/20
- Sep 19, 2023
Hold up, I’m gonna vom - Mansi Garneni
i puked in the bushes while my bestie / held my hair back from my face / sidewalk scratched my knees up...
Mag 20/20
- Sep 7, 2023
Renaissance - Asela Lee Kemper
I am more than another sad poem / I am my mother’s words / written in the stars forming into / constellations that guide me...
Mag 20/20
- Sep 5, 2023
I won’t translate everything - Dina Klarisse
I have a confession. There are landscapes of my mother tongue / I do not wish to share with you...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 31, 2023
Ringing - Kelli lage
My buried grandmother always calls when I’m sleeping / I will answer as if I am extinct / as if I am a wing...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 29, 2023
Leaves fall into a bubbling tarmac - David Agyei-Yeboah
Leaves fall into a bubbling tarmac. They swim to surface; the tarmac cakes and I finally see the train wreck..
Mag 20/20
- Aug 24, 2023
Art Series - RHYESYES
RHYESYES is a queer, self-taught artists based in Los Ángeles. Her inspiration always comes from her friends/family, the human body...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 23, 2023
In Case Of Emergency, Read This - Morgan Lyons
I’m in biology class. We’re doing our first lesson on the reproductive system. The textbook has maybe one sentence devoted to menstruation..
Mag 20/20
- Aug 18, 2023
Refractions - Landon Wittmer
"I tell myself it is time to write again. I tell myself, staring in the mirror, that I am come from the dead..."
Mag 20/20
- Aug 16, 2023
Hometown Lanternfly - Hannah Emilius
"A metric for measuring bugs like the falling of rain: precipitation, a new sort of climate. entomologist, entology: bug weather..."
Mag 20/20
- Aug 14, 2023
Art Series - Jacelyn
Jacelyn (she/her) recently started focusing on her art proper, having persevered through...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 11, 2023
i am unfit to raise daughters - Jessica Nirvana Ram
i’ve always wanted children / at first / sons / sons are less likely / to inherit my mouth / stuffed full of cotton balls...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 11, 2023
November 2022 - Jessica Nirvana Ram
When I tell my mother I’d been hit on three times / during my trip to NY, she is pleased...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 9, 2023
Something Old - Lydia Gompper
Oh, to be you again. To be eight, ten / thirteen. To be secure in the daily invariables...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 4, 2023
Why My Brother Refuses to Speak Spanish When My Mom Says Te Amo - Daren Colbert
Because I don’t want to /
cold and hard like water from the spigot / in our abuela’s bathroom / every morning.
Mag 20/20
- Aug 4, 2023
poem for derek/trayvon - Daren Colbert
Trayvon Martin walked into a 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida— / a bag of Skittles, a can of Arizona iced tea...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 4, 2023
A-Side - Daren Colbert
To grow old & Black in America is to search / among the names buried beneath & not find yours / blooming...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 2, 2023
the only good thing - andrea lianne grabowski
"i’m eighteen & holding you,
your knees hooked over my elbow,
bangs cut straight just like mine at two...."
Mag 20/20
- Aug 2, 2023
perception//performance - andrea lianne grabowski
"when it’s too cold, my car speakers falter, like they forget you made them into thunder..."
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