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Arrogance Unplugged |
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Lonely
Painting by Monica Barrameda |
Rachel Busnardo |
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The
Price You Pay by Clayton Beach |
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The
Tale of the Queen of Endor by Clayton Beach |
you all make me nauseous with your preposterous problems and your “keeping up with the Joneses” sort of attitude when the Joneses don’t even matter because Mr. Jones is bangin’ Mrs. Jones’s hairdresser while the little Jonesies are having unprotected sex and carving their names into their arms and let’s face it because I wear an Armani suit and drive an eco friendly car with a license plate that says I.B.T.A.O.Y (I’m Better Than All Of you) you can’t even fathom my problems especially those of you that bring your babies into Barnes and Nobles on a Sunday afternoon (as if you actually read) and expect someone of my intelligence to point you in the direction of the restroom because your little angel just “poopooed” and I’m supposed to think it’s adorable and smile and tell you how cute children are when the fact is that I hate your children and I loathe you because you interrupted me while I was reading The Great Aristotle which I am sure you have only heard of because it may have once been mentioned on an episode of School House Rock that just so happened to be on your television and when I read my own poetics you will bore me with your tedious questions about meaning and what the words corpulent and coprolite mean and how to use them in a sentence and you will say you thought poems were supposed to rhyme and I would just turn away because your simplicity bores me and disgusts me because you refuse to untie the Pop-Tarts that bind your ankles and keep you living in suburban America in your model home whereas I live in a modernly decorated studio apartment in Manhattan and hate the Joneses for entirely different reasons than you. | |
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Wintersong
by Clayton Beach |
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Mad
Dogs Bite by Janet Berend |
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Desert
Firefly by Taen Bounthapanya Third Place Winner, Poetry |
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Virtual
Reality by Taen Bounthapanya |
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Early
morning staring at an ugly fountain
by Breelyn Burns |
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Ten
Year Old Militia by Breelyn Burns Editor's Choice Award, Poetry |
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Arrogance
Unplugged by Rachel Busnardo |
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Goodbye
My Best Friend by Rachel Busnardo |
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At
a Small-Town Club by Jessica Conaway |
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Red
Stiletto Heels by Jessica Conaway |
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Naked
and Perfect T.C. Cook Second Place Winner, Poetry |
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Too
Far by T.C. Cook |
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Someday by Jermane Cooper |
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The
Girl Who Wrote This Stands at 5’ 2” (on a Good Day) by Shayna Coplan |
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Pontificating
Drunks by Dennis Dorsey |
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The
Symptom by Dennis Dorsey |
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Saturday
Night Pick-Up by Tanya Duer |
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Lost
in a Moment by Jamie Dykstra |
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Denizens
of Brilliance by Holland Elder |
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Between
His Futon and the Bedroom Wall
by Rachel Jones |
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Getting
Lost in National City Trying to Find Acapulco by Rachel Jones Angelo Carli Poetry Prize |
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Having
to Hide by Rachel Jones |
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I Used To Take My Anger Out On Plants by Rachel Jones | ||
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The
Piano by Rachel Jones |
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Words
Like Clay by Rachel Jones |
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Begetting
Tragedy by Chris Joy |
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My
First Last by Chris Joy |
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There's
No Problem Officer by Brittney Krier |
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Ernest
Hemingway (My Cat): A Villanelle by Melanie Maheu |
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The
Small Beauties of Marriage by Melanie Maheu |
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Do
The Punks Still Raise Their High Pumping Fists in the Air? by Brendan Mitchell |
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Love
by Natalie Parker |
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Watching
TV While Having Sex by Jessee Pugliese |
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partner by Ruth Rice |
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Blood by Rachelle Shull |
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Fall by Jacob Triffo |
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Time
Served by Matt Tweedie |
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Romance
to Reality by Aga-Marie Wehrly |
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Solicitude by Matt Whitney |
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Why
We Write by Karen Wooton |