Gargoyle
By JC Andrews
“I ask you to marry / me there and pretend / my name is Joshua.”
Contest Winner
Master of the Female Half-Lengths
“the women’s heart-shaped / faces like pale evenings cracked / with elegant longing for assignations.”
Interview with Nicole Wan-Ting Lee, Winner of the 2024 Previously Published Poem Prize
Winner of the 2024 Previously Published Poem Prize Nicole Wan-Ting Lee for “Deluge: A Chinese Almanac” — first …
2024 Love & Eros Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by John Lee Clark.
claiming to know the tense in which love happens
“when nothing is happening, when nothing is being said, but you feel like life is finally happening, even if you are just catching their jawline and no one else knows why you almost dropped your wine.”
Bedroom at the End of the World
“For three weeks I watch geese at sunset / outside the hospital window, bellies lit orange”
After Making Love at 6AM, I Leave You in My Bed
“like a cry of ecstasy, and the solemn / countenance of the resin Mary / perched above my desk looks coy-“
Deluge: A Chinese Almanac
“Yet as / the tide climbed, I wondered: when the / floods arrived, would my prince be beside / me, willing to swim? Or would he, as my / mother’s bones hinted, flee?”
Prayer Circle
By Sa Whitley
“Miss Mary, she say, God is good, and Jon gonna be alright. My late Grandma / Dorothy in my dream say, Jon Boy, he alright, and her hands covered high / yellow in batter from frying us”