Tag: Poetry
Secrets and Safety
Dec 8, 2023 | 2024 Winter - Bi+ World Wide Web, Poetry
By Fatima As I gaze outside my window I am reminded of my crimes all the warning signs my short-sighted copyrights tweets and receipts used against me. I could not go outside and I could not speak and I could not stay here alone...
Read Morescreen time for two
Dec 8, 2023 | 2024 Winter - Bi+ World Wide Web, Poetry
By Sarah Patterson it all comes down to a comment below, i’ll be lower still who am i if not split in two? subscription to someone else’s life somehow both are me somehow both are you i am a follower, not an interaction link to...
Read MoreDigital awakening
Dec 8, 2023 | 2024 Winter - Bi+ World Wide Web, Poetry
By Bojana In the shelter of the web’s embrace, A realm both vast, both virtual and base, I wandered, lost, in forums, chats, and sites, Seeking self amidst the countless bytes. In the glow of screens, both young and old, A...
Read Morescroll
Dec 8, 2023 | 2024 Winter - Bi+ World Wide Web, Poetry
By Kelsie Taylor another day. i scroll on instagram. a girl tells me of cops and mental health,...
Read MoreWhat the internet told me about bisexual women
Dec 8, 2023 | 2024 Winter - Bi+ World Wide Web, Poetry
By Jessica Skultety When I came out to myself, I began looking For information Because I only knew...
Read MoreAfterlife
Dec 8, 2023 | 2024 Winter - Bi+ World Wide Web, Poetry
By Jess Whetsel I did not learn your name until I was a teenager. It was an accident, a slip of another relative’s tongue, something I wasn’t supposed to hear— or at least not from their lips: my secret grandfather, the villain...
Read MoreCafé with mirrors
Dec 8, 2023 | 2024 Winter - Bi+ World Wide Web, Poetry
By Sue Vickerman In the back corner by the old iron radiator we discuss which we’d go for of the two women at the next table gazing into each other, one in a sculpted hat, one in a tightly-belted mac. When I reach up to prink at...
Read MoreAffirmed
Sep 1, 2023 | 2023 Fall - Bi+ Joy, Poetry
By strega clare manning slurping soft udon before we use our warm lips to utter the word “bi,” in the backseat of your car, idling in front of my dorm. the roots wrapped around my aorta would not budge until i dared to water...
Read MoreWriting a Love Poem at Taco Bell About
Sep 1, 2023 | 2023 Fall - Bi+ Joy, Poetry
By Michaela Mayer how your smile is backlit with the radiance of the purple now hiring sign, no...
Read MoreThe Present
Sep 1, 2023 | 2023 Fall - Bi+ Joy, Poetry
By Nicole Swisher In my daydreams, I see her: a woman as round as I am, as soft, with an awkward,...
Read MoreBudding Bisexual Disaster
Sep 1, 2023 | 2023 Fall - Bi+ Joy
By Annalies Mohle I want boys to think I’m tough and the girls to think I’m pretty And I want them all to think I’m smart and fun and witty This much self-consciousness is maybe vanity but I’m fifteen, so it’s allowed Let me...
Read MoreI Could Love Her
Sep 1, 2023 | 2023 Fall - Bi+ Joy, Poetry
By joce leo i. girlhood in your mid-twenties is braiding your friend’s hair brushing it back...
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