Featured poem: Cockroach by Jenny Qi. Featured topics: ELECTION DAY!, Las Vegas, language bastardization, pigeon nests, voter fraud, and ice cream lines.
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Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
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Featured poem: Incunabula, Mother Tongue by Max McDonough. Featured topics: insomnia, idioms, language, mothers, witches, shame, and the way that love is at the center of everything.
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Featured poem: I Nominate the Linden to Continue Its Service As Tree of Longing & Aromatic Futility by Alina Stefanescu. Featured topics: trees, nationality, invasive species, affairs, shame, romantic tropes, and siblings.
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Featured poem: A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe. Featured topics: sand, dreams, the ocean tormenting the shore, swim team, movie theater nostalgia, and being bottomless.
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Featured poem: The World Has Not Been Cruel to Him Yet by Allison Mei-Li. Featured topics: sweetie pie little boys, gender, camp, and drug experiences with friends.
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Featured poem: The Beautiful World by Noah Rafael Seltzer. Featured topics: New Mexico, Bushwick, birds and following them, theme parks, Irish pubs, Frankenstein, and the extended Noah Rafael Seltzer cinematic universe.
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Featured poem: Untitled 1975 — 86 by Jason B. Crawford. Featured topics: bobs, trains, safety, oysters, eczema, ads, and cannibalism.
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Featured poem: How to be Hopeful by Barbara Kingsolver
Featured topics: mascara, nuclear fallout, objectification but it’s okay, thigh high boots, and survival instincts for girls.
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Featured poem: I’m Coming to Terms with my Body by Claire E. Scott
Featured topics: trains, planes, bodies, blame, women in STEM, and a longform cartoon brainstorm
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Featured poem: Eight Stair by Joshua Turek. Featured topics: bumblebees, skateboarding, boys, and construction.
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Featured poem: Lie I’ve Told My 3-Year-Old Recently by Raul Gutierrez
Featured topics: the heat, K Pop Demon Hunters, lies we tell to children, the sun and the moon as estranged mother and daughter, magic being real, eating sadness, and finding out something devastating about Santa Claus (don’t listen with small children lol)
Featured poem: Anniversary by Max McDonough
Featured topics: teen boys, birds, a perfect poem, the precision of language, and a funny DM from a stranger
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Featured poem: My Mistakes Come from Not Paying Attention by Matthew Siegel
Featured topics: creativity castles, bricks, things you can take on an airplane, smoking sections, paying attention, pistachios, mono summer, school assemblies, and high school improv
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Featured poem: How the Jellyfish Prospered by Shira Erlichman. Featured topics: being 13, forgetting, jury duty, surrendering, rip tides, and trains.
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Featured poem: ICE by Sophie Cabot Black. Featured topics: sign language, France, the Fourth of July, the bravery of immigration, and our very different opinions about karaoke and how to do it
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Featured poem: Murmuration by Nina Peláez. Featured topics: aliens, birds, instincts, safety, songs, and AI.
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Featured poem: The Good News by Joseph Fasano. Featured topics: the NYC mayoral primary, mental health, resurrection, baptism cloths, sharpies, and vandalism.
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Featured poem: Oh My God I Miss You by Jeremy Radin. Featured topics: Materialists, age gap relationships, pigeon racing, yearning, Hannah’s Papa, Oura rings as wedding bands, cross country, and things that are dorky.
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Featured poem: When I Can't Sleep, I Google How the World Ends by Candace Kronen. Featured topics: the viral dress (2015), the end of so many worlds, black holes, Nova television programming circa 2003, Lorde, cheating, expulsion, and being a teenager.
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Featured poem: What is a Country but a Borderless Sentence by Maya Salameh
Featured topics: the fiction of borders, the refusal of direct interpretation, the parallels between (of course) Louisiana and Lebanon, the world functioning as a poem rather than prose, the grammar police, adult identical twins, getting left out because you can’t have a crush on your brother, orphan narratives, and the enneagram test.
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