ANSWER: Every attempt is being made to keep families together. As demonstrated by the regrettable anecdote you cite this is not feasible...

When Sheila earned her PhD With her boyfriend of equal degree Dissertations got tough So they smoked off-the-cuff How stupid can smart...

// Volodymyr Bilyk is a writer, translator from Ukraine. His works include: visual poems in the series This is Visual Poetry (2013),...

Once you learned how to turn yourself inside out no not just inside out but complete from the bottom outwards in the hungry directions of...

Editor's note: Dave's poems are based on The Fast and the Furious film franchise; if you're in Chicago as of this posting, he has a...

// Matt Margo is a person who writes. Their new poetry chapbook, yr yr, is forthcoming from Ghost City Press. Learn more about Matt and...

Bad Premise Nate runs out of granola on the Appalachian Trail. Nate plays Godot. Nate hears bad news over a tin can phone. Nate’s camp...

You hate me don't you? Because my skin is So chocolate and sweet. You hate me don't you? Because my body's so curvy And thick. You hate...

I once wrote of God, And I lost my audience with God. I once wrote of love, And I lost my baby, my darling. I once wrote of violence, And...

At the end of the day, I describe myself. I can only begin again. I create the routine out of the mountain, the indecipherable out of...

#goals The square longed to be a sexier polygon Nonagon, maybe #ruminate At some point I will stop questioning my penmanship And counting...

Unfold a map and it is like opening an accordion’s bellows, one pleat after another-- air flows across the reeds and sound vibrates...

i post selfies on Instagram to affirm that i am potentially good looking. i post my best selfie after taking 17 pictures, all at the same...

The Mushroom Ghosts of Finland I have a strange confession—ghosts are nibbling on purple mushroom caps. It’s easy to see because the...

THE SOUP It must ÷(divide) O peaceful eve S N W i g E ...

Of The Body The common quandary on display, that easy trope discarded in tombs of sentinel ancestors, beckoning to the other side of the...

My Favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman Film Today I saw an almond in a puddle And cried watching its skin pull away And drift towards the...

On the show floor of the Latest Gadget Expo, we had glass toast in twelve colors -- one for each day of the month. Which is to say that...

Carrion 1. To think of the decaying as an ecosystem. 2. Our ecosystem is fluid, our green mouths grinning grass through our wet teeth We...

FETISH FASCINATION i didn’t forget that you put my lips on a witch trial coated them in mint & venom i asked about half-truths it doesn’t...