Ida Börjel

‘You know about my / emotional drinking, and my night walks and my / fragmented heart-to-heart conversations.’

Tishani Doshi

‘If you need proof you’re alive, regard the oar / in your hand.’

Issue 124

Rachael Boast

Issue 115

Gillian Allnutt

‘We waited quietly for the Queen who wasn’t there’

Tishani Doshi

‘Remember when we were / young and the end was a black hole at the edge of forever, / a million light years away.’

Cortney Lamar Charleston

‘fibrous little trauma fruit, wan little wound-licker’

Issue 160

Rae Armantrout

‘It follows that existence is a debt.’

A poem by Rae Armantrout.

Fiona Benson

‘I head down the path hoping she’ll come / but when I look back she’s gone and my own voice / snags at her name like barbed wire on skin.’

Issue 135

Tara Bergin

‘So the young girls, / cast as naughty young girls from the Acropolis, / left – / just with some things missing.’

Issue 137

Will Alexander

‘how can all the pressures of surveillance / fail to describe me?’

Issue 141

Gary Barwin

‘the heart is an ocean-sized drum / a rat-sized jellyfish’

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

‘A life is an open thing / leaking out into / the air around it.’

Issue 160

Sandra Cisneros

‘The liver in love / means the body is healthy’

A poem by Sandra Cisneros.

Issue 137

Feng Sun Chen

‘Every day, I see a monstrosity in the kissing hole.’