by Mario Gomez Zamora | Jul 24, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2025
Como La Luna For my dear queer friend from Lima, Perú, Alejandra Watanabe Farro.¡Con amor y respeto por aquellas pláticas de corazón a corazón! I am like the moon,Soy como la luna,I am like the god Kútsï, the P’urhepecha deity that illuminates the night:I have...
by Publab Alumni | Jul 24, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2018
How to Cook an Egg How to cook an eggwhen you’re lonely:Crack an egg into a pan. It’s the last one you have and you forgot to pick up more at the store. Eat the egg open-face on toast while sitting on the couch, watching the same movie you watched last week. when...
by Ryan Riffenburgh | Jul 24, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2025
Ekphrasis of Tony Conrad’s “Four Violins” In the foreground, this chain saw tears and rips. [PUSH] Jagged tooth blade, oscillates up/down not pulsing, [PULL] but stabbing. Leave here for the ocean in the distance, ...
by Tanya Young | Jul 24, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2025
I Call My Hound Rage and He Moves He walks backward on command, thick fur teeming with grays reversing back to flat. After he’s fed I see him swimming the Pacific in jagged loops and gulp-frantic swirls. He holds my salt in his mouth a red rubber ball. He gnaws at the...
by Libby Hsieh | Jul 24, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2025
I Am Not Ready But It Is Time I’m moving a black shadow. The gall sleeps top and toewith the somnambulist and leavesno dissonance. Every year is my last year. Every day is my only day. Every waiting room rotates its available seats. The contestants walk until the...
by Andrea Perez | Jul 24, 2025 | Poetry, Poetry 2025
Winter Blues Maybe it was just the Winter, seeping through my bones into my heart, the grasp of its icy hands against my bare neck. But then I woke up in June, sunlight...
