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1. You kicked like an ass, bony knees and elbows flailed, trapped inside my cage. We both wanted you out. You didn’t rock-a-bye, peek-a-boo, patty-cake. You couldn’t carry a note to sing the rain, rain go away. You crushed Georgie Porgie. You kissed, then bit, his girls. You cooed and cawed, my wretched dove.Everyone cried …

The stereotype is true: college students party. The other stereotype is also true: that kid with the wire glasses and old sweater does not party. He vacuums and reads badly-written novels. Occasionally, he’ll call someone. Often, he wallows. He believes something must be wrong with him because no matter how good the day was, when …

Note: The source text for this hybrid piece is Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. Lee Johnson is a LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent poet. He is a master’s student at Weber State University studying Creative Writing. His works have been published by the Sugar House Review, Passionfruit Review and 30 N Literary Review. He has …

Note: These poems are erasures of The New Etiquette: The Modern Code of Social Behavior by Margery Wilson (1937) Carrie Green is the author of Studies of Familiar Birds: Poems (Able Muse Press, 2020). She earned her MFA at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for …

Meghan Elizabeth Kelley is a poet from the Philadelphia, PA area. Her work has appeared in For Women Who Roar, The Inflectionist Review, and Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine, among other places. She has an MFA from Randolph College.

Meghan Elizabeth Kelley is a poet from the Philadelphia, PA area. Her work has appeared in For Women Who Roar, The Inflectionist Review, and Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine, among other places. She has an MFA from Randolph College.

“They are structures, often oppressive structures, that we cannot ignore. To treat them intersectionally is to consider how food is not separate from race, not separate from gender, not separate from ability, etc. and that where a person or community stands at these intersections means that they have radically different life chances and access to …

Access: Attachment. Maybe a ramp, maybe a wound that mends outward, with overgrowth of tissue that dangles like a tether. Always, the path back to where humans began. Accommodation: Innovation, to make new. 1. Fighting abled norms to a draw. For now. 2. Living inside the glass house of your body, no curtains, notes to …

Sophie Drukman-Feldstein is a writer, translator, and editor living in New York City. Their poetry has previously appeared in Contemporary Verse 2.

REPUBLIC OF GHANA / REPUBLIQUE DU GHANAPassport / Passeport Type/ Type Code/Code Passport No. / Passeport No. Surname/NomAmoah — my mother’s maternal surname means pit, hole, or trench. The pronunciation of the name is akin to mmoa — meaning animals. Which animal? An ant? An antelope? A buffoon? A bat? Mmoa also means to fold. …