Baleen Watch you don’t choke me, child or we’ll fill with water herald the ocean, turn to our own brand of pebble. Her heart pulses into his back, breaths become a stage show of gaping jawbone, honking, birthed in seawater,…
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Not everything you hear is accurate. For example, the idea that one in three women ages 35 to 39 will not become pregnant after a year of trying is based on French birth records from 1670 to 1830.
I LEAVE HIM THERE after and with lines from Michael S. Harper From your head’s darkening, where brass tunnels play, it meets you, a fond memory founds you, Gnostic labels finally escape you and accidentally you find… smacked out…
The Four of Pentacles: Be careful with clinging to things that you need to reevaluate or let go of. Your Weekly Tarot for 01/25/2015-01/31/2015.
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Editors Note: I asked the poets and editors directly involved with the Jesse Bradley/ Lockjaw Magazine and Ted Hash-Berryman / Queen’s Mob Teahouse publications if they would be willing to answer a few questions. Both publications have sparked a community discussion around the language of violence…
Editors Note: I asked the poets and editors directly involved with the Jesse Bradley/ Lockjaw Magazine and Ted Hash-Berryman / Queen’s Mob Teahouse publications if they would be willing to answer a few questions. Both publications have sparked a community discussion around the language of violence…
Editors Note: I asked the poets and editors directly involved with the Jesse Bradley/ Lockjaw Magazine and Ted Hash-Berryman / Queen’s Mob Teahouse publications if they would be willing to answer a few questions. Both publications have sparked a community discussion around the language of violence…
Editors Note: I asked the poets and editors directly involved with the Jesse Bradley/ Lockjaw Magazine and Ted Hash-Berryman / Queen’s Mob Teahouse publications if they would be willing to answer a few questions. Both publications have sparked a community discussion around the language of violence…
Put on your floral crowns and fill up your opulent cigarette cases, Lana lovers! The world’s saddest girl has just released a new song, Wait for Life, via Emily Haynie’s new album, We Fall. While we have to give props…
We all know the trope: if a woman is wearing sweatpants, there is something terribly wrong with her life.
[Margaret Bashaar] Writers & Editors Respond To The J. Bradley Poem / Ted Hash-Berryman Interview
Kim Vodicka responds to the responses around the Ted Hash-Berryman interview at Queen Mob’s Teahouse.
Chinatown by James Yates Curated by Amanda Miska Sean stopped and looked into a smeared window, staring at a row of mechanical waving cats. They came in various colors, all with the same exaggerated smiles, their arms craning up and…
Crown Glass Looking at our photos— you under amethyst and garnet windows— silence crosses my heart as when ripples in a pond flutter and part. You look like a stranger, blind gaze, a bust drawn from water. I’ve never seen…
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Kim Vodicka is the author of Aesthesia Balderdash (Trembling Pillow Press, 2012). She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Louisiana State University (2013). Her artwork has been published in Tenderloin, and her poems have been published in Shampoo, Ekleksographia, Dig, Spork, Unlikely Stories,…
The Ace of Wands hits us with inspiration and dreams of our creative potential. Your Weekly Tarot for 01/18/2015-01/24/2015.
A man in a mask is a sexy superhero. A woman in a mask is commonplace.
Femme Pansexual invisibility is real, and it’s cramping my style.
Picking up a pen and paper can make all the difference in your writing practice.
Sometimes the body just has to give something up.
Freedom by Alice Kaltman Curated by Amanda Miska Oh the burn. That searing pain squeezing his thighs like a vise grip. The supreme feeling. The most validating. Even more affirming than the heaving sensation in his gut. A smaller gut…
because lower down forces will come forces wind
the pressure of deep ocean when it fascinates and cradles
As important it is to point out the absence of women in film, both in front of and behind the camera, it’s even more important to talk about the women who are mastering it.
“You must sing to be found. Once found, you must sing” -Li-Young Lee While swimming, another doctor unscrews another child from you and gives it to me. He is gentle. He is better than a knife. Your one good dress…
“You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians.”
James Franco is my Manic Hatter Dream Boy. He represents someone I don’t have to worry about committing to or pleasing. Someone who would never be a stable part of my life.
Canopy There’s nothing here but bright collusion. My door is ajar here and after. I offer your brilliant hair due respect for blowing as a form of possession. The way it moves all the wind. Up the gorge’s rusted cello….
Surrounding the Page of Pentacles is the power of manifestation. Your Weekly Tarot For 01/11/2015-01/17/2015.
I read it as if the book would disintegrate upon reading. What I mean is, I read it like nobody’s business.
I don’t like to think of the clothes he had to be cut from, or the fact that his glasses got lost. I don’t like to think of shouts for help or last words. I don’t like to think of the temporary finality when his heart stopped.
Aquarius a steel city struck & springing up overnight saxophone highrise winds martinis who knows who knows forever like this Pisces finger-singing glass skim your reckless stones work your circular melodies through this…
We don’t know what your pedicure tech’s reasons are, but I’m absolutely certain they are good ones. She’s the one putting herself at risk here, so you need to trust that she’s doing what’s best for her.
Reprinted with Permission by Les Femmes Folles Natalie Denise Sperl is the front woman of Los Angeles-based quartet Kill My Coquette whose self-titled debut EP is due out on January 20th. Armed with attitude and boasting vital rock & punk…
An Apology to La Isla I implicate myself for neglecting the island, Puerto Rico, home of my father, half of my blood, land voiced in dropped syllable’s Andalusian Spanish, isla I haven’t seen in too many years. I hear hesitation…
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How do I rid myself of the ghosts that haunted 2014? Burn something? Go to Lethe with a shot-glass? Chop off all my hair?
The fact that I want to see police who exploit their power be held accountable only means that I want to see the integrity of the profession protected.
FROM EXODUS IN X MINOR WINNER OF THE 2014 SUNDRESS PUBLICATIONS CHAPBOOK AWARD our streets grew red with men painted by vernal cold, behaving as ibises searching My red-bearded man knew a hill, one night dug a hole…
Reversed Seven of Pentacles advises: You get out what put into it. Your Weekly Tarot For 01/04/2015-01/10/2015.
In this series on female identity as performance, I am exploring the expected sacrifice of the individual feminine on the altar of the greater good, whether that sacrifice is done for survival, for approval, for somewhere in between or elsewhere altogether.
Learn how to read tarot–it will help you evaluate your own life objectively, thus, make less impulsive decisions. Every naughty witch struggles with this on a daily basis, do we not? Stop caring about what others think. It will make…
GRASS by Erin Calabria Curated by Amanda Miska It was summer, late afternoon, the time of day when all the bugs swarming above the grass carbonate the air with specks of floating light. I’d be leaving in a couple days…
image via 365 Masquerades Last month I wrote about some incredible women in the movies, the perils of The Bechdel Test, the evolution of the “male gaze,” and this year’s apparent daughter fixation in film (see: Birdman, Interstellar). Mostly I just…
COMING BACK A drug called “Christmas” crushed into your mirror, That gives off tiny lights Dancing to the left and right of temples Coos in the voices of old hormones, Stirring around, dulled, By having had to survive rebirth, Pushing…
Know what I am? A mess. Well, I’m not really. I kind of have it together I guess. I DUNNO, GUYS. My point is I’m sure that’s how many of use view ourselves when January 1 rolls around and we start…
FICTION: Never Read the Comments by Kathleen Barber
Never Read the Comments by Kathleen Barber Curated by Amanda Miska Never read the comments. You learn this on your first day, after you receive your system password but before you are shown the location of the coffee machine. The…