Robert Andrew Perez
you wish a life with a little room for happiness
like you picture the sky purged of light
pollution so you can see at last the stars […]
January 2017
Cheswayo Mphanza
I do believe you Teddy Pendergrass;
I too have been on the rope-a-dopes
of love, soaking in fists from women
who do not believe a man can be down, […]
Corey Van Landingham
Because there had to be one woman who first loved a man. Let’s call her X.
Because X started it.
Because I can’t imagine her face. […]
Ross White
Photographs of the waterskiing versions of us,
the ones who went to Machu Picchu & Chunchucmil,
the selfish & long-haired & parasailing us, […]
Stevie Edwards
There is an absence of lemon. Dark, dark as roots, as earth. It is the tongue’s earth, coats the swallowing. Coats are because we need more fur. […]
John Sibley Williams
held together by wild oceans,
grassed over rail tracks,
whiskey and brief churches,
your interior untamed […]
Maura Pellettieri
a friend of mine, said,
Death is painless, even for me. He wore
all the words, some sleeves
no one had ever heard, […]
Submissions are open for 2017 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest!
Our submissions have increased with every year. To thank you for your confidence in us, we have reduced the submission fee from previous years so that the barrier to submission is even lower. We want […]
Ysabel Y. Gonzalez
Dear Brown Bright Heart,
sneak into my mouth—crowned glory
loosen my coarse crimson tongue […]
Talin Tahajian
Different cities glow different colors in the rain Throwing up in bathroom stalls My leather jacket & cold February wind Shades of black so dark they’re purple Cities glow different colors in the dark Night […]