Join us on July 23, 2022 at 3:30 PM ET for an online launch of issue 19:1 “Bridges.” Featuring readings from Robyn Maree Pickens, Meghan Kemp-gee, Matthew James Weigel, Julie Mannell, and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi! The reading will be approximately 1-hour and Zoom’s closed captioning will be turned on. The event is open to all […]
Robyn Maree Pickens | ELEGY, 2nd Place Winner of the Vallum Poetry Award 2021
it was lunchtime & you sliced pale not scarlet bananas onto bread
our lungs were the scent of fruiting as we sank our baby teeth into sweet
our lungs were young & sprinkled sugar was our first illicit
the scent of mother, brother, & I wound deep into my limbic system