Claire Zhang is a sophomore at Yale University majoring in English. She enjoys reading and writing, and, like any standard young person of her age, social media usage. Visit her blog. CarnivalBy Claire ZhangThe night was cold; it bound our hands,left them for dead, and I had left my coatat home and reckless feet in flip-flops, […]
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The Nervous System
Anthony Ward’s most recent poem to appear here was Snowballed (May 2012). The Nervous SystemBy Anthony Ward The city’s a nervous systemA minutia of intricacies consolidating functionsOverlooked by more celebrated organsVigorously driving networks of vesselsCongested by build ups of traffic–Carcinomatous cells spreading far and wideViolating our habitatWith industrious smoke suffocating lungsIngesting chemicals into our streamsThe malaise of […]
The Pen Is a Prison
Philip Vermaas is a professional copywhore, excessive drinker, lustful fool, fledgling editor, dilettante animator, occasional graphic designer, fatalistic romantic, self-indulgent poet, failing novelist, borderline mendicant, and bad son of the world. In addition to the poems he has cheekily published at his own Misfit’s Miscellany, his work can be read at Drunken Absurdity, online and in their […]
Waiting for God, Oh
Frank Cavano’s most recent poem to appear here was Seasons of the Mind, 2nd Runner-up in the First-Ever vox poetica Poetry Contest (January 2011). Waiting For God, OhBy Frank Cavano Lost in the chair, the chair of tiger-likestripes, waiting for what, an inspiration?You are gone from me now banished bymy impudence, my mind whistling, chestpuffing effrontery. […]
Last Call
Alan Britt’s most recent poem to appear here was Flashback (September 2012). Last CallBy Alan BrittGreen hooves coffee grounds lemon bulldozers blackambulance in the garden with clouds & troubadoursmultiplying like wild hippos in Columbia swamps liketorsos gone viral in the fog crouched over Formica desktop titanium trimmed eyeglasses earth mover groaningthrough the Amazon crawling from college campuses &beeping like a zebra […]
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