Sam Ross 7/17/20 Sam Ross 7/17/20

Letter to Theo

Two fighters / sparring under / the park’s biggest hawthorn. / The brow of the smaller split, / red swathe growing wider.

Jiordan Castle 7/17/20 Jiordan Castle 7/17/20

The School of the Future Looks Just Like the Past

Lena Walker 7/17/20 Lena Walker 7/17/20

Like eating hot rice in a downpour,

ducks growing fat on crackers,

calling a fist a lake.

eae Benioff 7/17/20 eae Benioff 7/17/20

priorly a non-compartment / for storage things like rage

Hannah Matheson 7/17/20 Hannah Matheson 7/17/20

What use are the transitional fossils / of our language? The half-lives / of words in circulation?

Iris Cushing 7/17/20 Iris Cushing 7/17/20

In the winter, there were days in which / I never stepped outside.

Bruce Smith 7/17/20 Bruce Smith 7/17/20

Bruce Smith is the author of six books of poems. He teaches in the MFA program at Syracuse University.

Alex Dimitrov 7/17/20 Alex Dimitrov 7/17/20

You can invest everything in someone. This one feeling chopping you up. Anyone can go into the night.

Editors 7/17/20 Editors 7/17/20