Everything Pink
A poem about Barbie by Yvonne de la Vega.

You Fucker, I’m Spilt
The stain on the sidewalk, it looks like my face, John.

Suicide is for Optimists, Cioran Said
A poem by Mihalea Moscaluic.

King of Wishful Thinking
A poem by Rob Sturma.

Captions
A poem by D.B. Ruderman.

The Ghost of Tony Montana Haunts Martin Luther King Boulevard
A poem by Geoff Kagan Trenchard.

When You See the Buddha
Some delicious verse from the poet Milo Martin.

Fifteen Ways to Stay Alive
A poem by Daphne Gottlieb.

Killing, riding I & II
Poems by Shya Scanlon, author of the collection In This Alone Impulse.

MAKARS—MAKERS OF POETRY
A poem by Judy Prince.

Hail to the Things I Cannot See
A poem by Steve Abee, from his acclaimed collection Great Balls of Flowers.

Half-Life
A poem by Howie Good.

Another Conversation
A poem by Lisa Rae Cunningham.

The Oregon Trail in the Last Moments Before Dusk
A poem by Gregory Sherl.

PUNK ROCK ROYALTY
A poem by Iris Berry.

Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars (Hope is Not a Course of Action)
Buddy Wakefield offers up this poem for you to ingest.

A Monkey and a Man
A poem by Erica Dawson.

The Broken Levees
A poem by Tara Betts, from her collection entitled Arc & Hue.

Robinson’s Hometown
A poem by Kathleen Rooney, founder of Rose Metal Press and author of Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object.

April Lands Another Sucker
A delicious offering from poet Dennis Mahagin.

one day
A poem by Kathryn Magendie.

cotton in the air
A poem by the one and only Derrick Brown.

Rosemary’s Divorce
A poem by Barbara Louise Ungar.

To the Crow Who Lives in My Left Lung