Poetry by Emily Moore
Issue 2 / Poetry

Poetry by Emily Moore

Love Song To wear a black corduroy jumper with red roses that your mom picked out from Lord & Taylor for ballroom lessons in the seventh grade and which you wore more happily when you cleared plates at dinners for the Junior League when her friends praised you as you soaped the bowls is to … Continue reading

Poetry by Andrew K. Peterson
Issue 1 / Poetry

Poetry by Andrew K. Peterson

Thirty Soul Mates   Today we’ll likely witness the first Norton Poetry Lecture partially delivered by keytar. Quiz: considering prior recipients— (a) Eliot, (b) Hancock, (c) Cage, (d) Kentridge— who might’ve said, there are no wrong notes, just better choices? My point being, recent thinking on the state   of the soul mate has been … Continue reading

Poetry by Tina Mozelle Braziel
Issue 1 / Poetry

Poetry by Tina Mozelle Braziel

Allure Song Allure 1. Suede Nude before the mirror, she scrutinizes her sapling legs and the ant-bite swell of breasts, searching for some allure there. She fingers the gold sequined thong, then steps into it the way she’d cross a low wall. Sliding into heels, she grasps her hips. Sashay, she thinks, sashay like the … Continue reading