Category: Poetry
Changing Profiles
Jun 1, 2024 | 2024 Summer - More than One Letter, Poetry
by Grace Hedin Grace, 24 They/Them. Interested in petting cats and watching Pride and Prejudice on repeat. Inside boy, big grandma energy, my hair is always frizzy. Can I tell you a secret? I hate hiking. The idea of walking up...
Read Morehow to be the good kind of fat girl
Jun 1, 2024 | 2024 Summer - More than One Letter, Poetry
by Grace Hedin talk as little as possible and when you do use a soft voice, barely there— if your voice is light maybe the other parts of you will seem light too. don’t be talkative, or—god forbid—opinionated. freshman year, you...
Read MoreQueer
Jun 1, 2024 | 2024 Summer - More than One Letter, Poetry
By Alexandra Steahly-Jenkins Maybe I was born this way I’ll never know I find myself two-tongued and ten-handed I like either both this hidden hybrid The first time I descended into her wet everything the velvet sanctuary...
Read MoreDandelions
Jun 1, 2024 | 2024 Summer - More than One Letter, Poetry
By Aurora Jane Wells they say we are pests we appear everywhere take up space corrupt all we touch...
Read MoreHot Chocolate
Jun 1, 2024 | 2024 Summer - More than One Letter, Poetry
By Niamh Griffiths I’m sitting in the coffee shop where I saw you second maybe third when I was...
Read MoreTumulus
Jun 1, 2024 | 2024 Summer - More than One Letter, Poetry
By Flare Aftermath The land was left barren. It was a wasteland of our own making. I was...
Read MoreThe “F” in LGBTQ, a.k.a., What the Letters Actually Stand For
Jun 1, 2024 | 2024 Summer - More than One Letter, Poetry
By Mica L. Rich L— stands for: Let boys like dolls, and clothes, and colors. It really wouldn’t...
Read MoreThe Demon, The Cookie, and the Daughter on Fire
May 31, 2024 | 2024 Summer - More than One Letter, Poetry
By Mary Salome …rather than negating passion, desire, and sexuality, one can transmute them. This… is indeed what allows the bodhisattva, in various Buddhist scriptures, to indulge in sex without being defiled by...
Read MoreDear You: lose
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Nicole Miyashiro Lose people/ who were never there, lose/ the lies, illusions, truth-fearing/...
Read MoreThe Visiting House (To My Little Self and My Little Brother)
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Maggie Young I love you with syrup in your hair and gum on the bottoms of your shoes. Don’t...
Read MoreThree Biku
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Martine Mussies to my younger self Embrace love’s vast hues, Don’t fret over fixed boxes, Be...
Read MoreThe Letter I Needed the Year Everything Broke Apart
Mar 1, 2024 | 2024 Spring - Letters to Myself, Poetry
By Alison Shea Hi there. It has been a tough couple of days, huh? You have had expectations of...
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