[POEM] Live As You Exist by Luc K.Y. Live as You Exist highlights the common struggle of chronic rumination and the cruelty that is its often-cyclical nature. Winner of the 2nd NH Witty Poets Competition.
[POEM] Charity at 11 by Morad Moazami A nocturnal meditation on guilt and charity in Oxford’s winter hush. The poem follows a speaker wandering Little Clarendon Street, caught between pity and self-reproach, where an act of giving becomes a reckoning with solitude, privilege, and the limits of goodness.
[POEM] I Wish I Still Had Time to Ask About The Camellias by Erin Weeks "This piece focuses on the realization that I can no longer ask my grandmother, who has dementia, about the details of her life when she was younger; it's a reflection on memories being lost within a person."
[POEM] 3 Poems by Jayanta Bhaumik Fib, cue, xyz, both individually and as a combination of imageries, tells about how we or our senses are expanded into the unseen dimensions of the seen.
The Little Pilgrim Bailey's sensual evocation of a young woman’s attempt to re establish a stable identity after the devastation of unforeseen betrayal, heartbreak and a near death experience.
[POEM] Office Maid by Julia Clark This poem juxtaposes the mundanity of contemporary office work with the fantasticality of supernatural mythology for a surreal take on modern work culture and its often obscured ties to environmental destruction and capitalism exploitation.
[POEM] Ancient Whispers: A Mythic Poem Sequence by F Kevin Murphy These poems are drawn from a sequence entitled “Ancient Whispers” that utilize themes from classical or Slavic myth. Each poem deals with the irony and vicissitudes of human experience.
[PROSE POEM] Auxier Ridge Trail “Auxier Ridge Trail” is a lyric meditation on emotional exhaustion, intimacy, and the erosive beauty of shared experience within a natural landscape.