not a perfect person by Kristin Lueke
“i’d like to be loved. / just not too much. lord, let me never / be needed.” — Kristin Lueke
The Email Finds Me by Lisa Muradyan
“the email wants me to know / it will be alright, that it will be / more than alright” — Luisa Muradyan
For M by Mikko Harvey
“I / think I / get so / scared because / I’m greedy — / I want / to hold / onto everything, / the world / wants to / take it / away.” — Mikko Harvey
A Poem Is A Place by Isabelle Correa
“You being / inside / means / you’re already hurt.” — Isabelle Correa
I’ve Been Thinking about Love Again by Vievee Francis
“Those who live to have it and / those who live to give it.” — Vievee Francis
What We Hold by Ugochukwu Okpara
“held her hands / instead / and asked why / now why keep a thing / so heavy away / from me” — Ugochukwu Okpara
Most Days I Want to Live by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
“And prayed for myself, which / is embarrassing to admit / in this day and age. But I did it.” — Gabrielle Calvocoressi
feet by Ross Gay
“I am trying, I think, to forgive myself / for something I don't know what.” — Ross Gay
It’s A Lot by Jon Sands
“It's a lot to not get your feelings hurt, / to let emotions pass through you, / to see your mother look like your grandmother. / It's all very necessary, but it's still a lot—” — Jon Sands