"We’re so excited about the new issue of fourteen poems, featuring 14 snapshots of queer life from across the globe. With award winning poets alongside never-before-published writers, we hope you love this issue as much as we do.
These poems look at such a wide array of topics: online flirting, gender questioning, hope in the face of dark times, sex and love, and what our childhood crushes have to say about us now.
In this issue, there’s John McCullough writing in his trademark surreal style about optimism, Hetty Cliss using emojis to depict digital interactions, Titilayo Farukuoye using a slowly disintigrating form to dissect gender expectations, and So Mayer queering the concept of romance through language and imagery. And many more exciting poems.
We can’t wait for you to read these! Here are our latest fourteen poems:
The Long Jumper’s Diary by John McCullough
Body Counts by William Ward Butler
NO WORRIES IF NOT :) BY Hetty Cliss
lop— by Toby Campion
Free Bleed by Titilayo Farukuoye
freestyle by Jo Morris Dixon
Between the Superdrug Aisles by Stuart Charlesworth
belly as dirty/sacred word by Elizabeth Gibson
Somewhere in my parents’ attic is a homemade compilation VHS of Danny from MTV’s The Real World: New Orleans by Rich Ware
Beauty by André Le Mont Wilson
jardim da estrela (garden of stars) by Alexander Leon
THE LOVE OF MY LIFE IS A HAUNTED HOUSE WITH A PICKET FENCE by Kayleigh Jayshree
Where are you FROM from? PART 1 by Arun Jeetoo
epithalamium by So Mayer"
