The Invisible Hand
By Felix Eshiet
“the fair boy says he’s been peeling since manhood stripped him of innocence, but that’s not a / grief solvent enough to dissolve his whole”
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This Suburban Child Yearns for a Stereotypical Post-Apocalyptic World Overgrown with Weeds
By Hanwen Zhang
“the heaving of cyanobacteria / blooms in steaming lakes / no less bustling with life / than a field of dandelions”
The name you were given and the one you are known by
“A coyote tells secrets to the hemisphere / of my mind that cannot speak. It is busy shuffling / scene after scene of each girl I’ve been.”
Vanitas: Half Skull, Orchid, Gecko
“Even our orchid chokes on / the affection—overwatered, coffee grounds for soil. / The flies connive among the fruit.”
Septuagenarian Abecedarian Love Song
By Tina Blade
“Superimpose over all of this a photo of our younger selves— / tight smiles and a greedy earnestness that nearly // undid us—”
2025 Love & Eros Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Sun Yung Shin.
there is no place for tigers
“in the end : the body recedes into veils of budded / jasmine : cottoncloth in the underground country / do you understand?”
Deadlines: June & July 2026
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.