During sex, I often think of a fact I heard, which is that
during sex, our impulse toward disgust is diminished.
Katie Berta
from the journal
The Georgia Review
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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The Adroit Journal
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Bomb Magazine
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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Rock and the Beat Generation
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Jacket2
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Poetry Foundation
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Poetry Foundation
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- September 29, 2026
tommy wyatt blake
the body as toyhacked. body as premature goreform, a marionette of blood and fluid and sinewy muck.
- September 28, 2026
Susan Briante
Write a poem that binds you and your reader as tightly as the zip ties encircling protestors’ wrists. Use empathy, compassion, complicity.
- September 27, 2026
Lisa Fishman
& coming back, always within
12 feet of me
but in water if I approach
she goes under
- September 26, 2026
Noa Micaela Fields
Ends, if impossible, unimaginable
I can't trust "there there" mimetic hit-and-run mouth
- September 25, 2026
Christopher Bakken
arrowheads of swallows slicing a wind
strong enough to set their wings on fire,
but not the weather so much as the place itself,
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