Special FeaturerbdDevon Wootten, special feature, poetry

Devon Wootten: Worst. Threesome. Ever.

Special FeaturerbdDevon Wootten, special feature, poetry
Devon Wootten: Worst. Threesome. Ever.
Paul Morris

Paul Morris

I & she & you—

*

    (Worst. Threesome. Ever.

 

Reader, that was a joke—

      kinda.

                

     Reader,

I was at least 19% kidding. 

 

And the other 81%?

       Well,

 

I don’t have to tell you what it’s like—

                                                             I mean,

 you were the first third wheel

                                                 amirite?

 

I mean, that whole “The-mouth-of-a-man-saves-

him-and-his-speech-grants-him-indulgence,” thing. 

 

That must’ve stung.

(Bear with me.)

         I mean,

 

what I’m trying to say is sorrynotsorry

but literally—

                  

          both/and.)

                          

*

 

    Reader,

[menacingly]

      you’re t’ave been consumed

 

& presently—

            you too-dear, you etymon.

 

You gall

    & makes the world a galling.

Devon Wootten is a faculty member at Whitman College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, LIT, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Octopus, the tiny, Backward City Review, 26 – A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and The California Journal of Poetics. A former resident of Yaddo and Anderson ranch, he is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Montana and ABD in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Iowa. He lives with his wife among the wheat fields of southeast Washington. He curates wikipoesis.com. He's at devonwootten.com.

Special Featurerbdgillian parrish, special feature, poetry

Gillian Parrish: Just When We Thought We Could Turn

Gillian Parrish is a teaching-geek who currently divides her not-enough-time between stacks of papers on brain-gut neuroscience in the classroom, persona poetics, community policing, and a mermaid tale for her sweet little niece. Her poems have appeared in various journals such as Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Literary Review, and forthcoming in Volt. She's the mothership behind spacecraftproject, an arts and poetry journal with an ethos best summed up in the words of said 4-year-old niece (hope for the planet), who, at Christmas dinner, solemnly remarked that "We are all connected. In a web. Like The Force."

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Gillian Parrish: Just When We Thought We Could Turn
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Travis Sharp: No Body Is a Scapegoat

Travis Sharp is a queer writer, artist, and teacher living in Buffalo. He's an editor and designer at Essay Press and at Small Po[r]tions, the author of the chapbook Sinister Queer Agenda (above/ground press, forthcoming), and a PhD student in the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program. Other work has appeared with Columbia Poetry Review, LIT, Bombay Gin, Puerto del Sol, Entropy, and elsewhere.

Special FeaturerbdTravis Sharp, poetry, special feature
Travis Sharp: No Body Is a Scapegoat
Special FeaturerbdDavid Hanlon, poetry, special feature

David Hanlon: As Fickle as an Orange Is Orange

David Hanlon is from Cardiff, Wales, and currently living in Bristol, England. He has a BA in Film Studies & is training part-time as a counsellor/therapist. You can find his work online in or forthcoming with Calamus Journal, Occulum, Riggwelter Press, Dirty Paws Poetry Review, Into The Void, Impossible Archetype & The Rising Phoenix Review, among others.

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David Hanlon: As Fickle as an Orange Is Orange