POETRY
2022-23
Deserts, Flower Ghosts, Eighth Dimension, and Venus
Portfolio by Semkyi Naksang-Hall (11/7/2022)
When the sun sets bleeding red and burnt orange over the sleeping mountains, here is what you’ll do...
On The Verge
Claire Arveson (12/6/2022)
Why is the darkness so inviting? / The rain so welcome...
If There is a God
Rebecca Myers (12/6/2022)
What is God? / If there is a God as in the books...
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Desert Cradle and Bleed
Caroline Holloway-Imrie (11/7/2022)
She moves with the sky, / Arching / Sunset / These floors of long dead oceans hiss in heat...
A Parent's Duty Can Lead To F*cked Up Love and Pink Suitcase
Raina Smith (12/6/2022)
Honey, please listen / Pretend to care / At least give me / A small smile...
2021-22
Someone
Frances Johnson (5/2022)
I want to ask you what your name is / because I really don’t know...
When I Draw
Isabel Kembel (5/2022)
As my pencil paints a picture / my paper is a portal / peering into a paradise...
Camera Lens
Elton Cao (5/2022)
Taking labored steps through faded photographs. / Do the oaks speak my language? Touching / rough bark...
2019-20
2018-19
Dear Sadness
Julia Frew
Dear Sadness / you / rise up / like / the changing tides...
Shafts of Light Through a Snowstorm
Lucas Allen
There’ve been colder days than this / Although the days I miss all felt so warm...
The Teapot
Sadie Boonin
He's buried in Tunisia / A Jewish star in a field of crosses...
A Letter To My Hero
Marin Stott
I am new to this. / I do not know how to have heroes...
Musings in a Hospital Gown
Whitney Toutenhoofd
ultimately / i wish it were snowing / i wish i could attribute / the fact that i am freezing cold...