Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich
“There’s a dream I have in which I love the world.” — Cameron Awkward-Rich
Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything by Hanif Abdurraqib
“isn’t it funny, to vow that you will love someone until you are dead.” — Hanif Abdurraqib
No Rush by Todd Dillard
“It’s quiet now, / the storm splits open like sacramental bread, / and I love you I love you. Can you hear me?” — Todd Dillard
Letter by Joseph Fasano
“That new moon / you must have touched once / in the waters, / saying change me, change / me, change me. All I want / is to be more of what I am.” — Joseph Fasano
The View from the Roof, Waverly Place by Cornelius Eady
"Then the one on the left loops / His arm around the other’s shoulder, / —My buddy, my buddy." – Cornelius Eady
Instead, I’m Here to Tell You Very Softly by Oliver de la Paz
"the colors were everywhere, filling our sewers / and the sewers turned very beautiful" – Oliver de la Paz
The house as casualty by Mahmoud Darwish
“The house as casualty is also mass murder” — Mahmoud Darwish