- “What I Miss Most About Hell” by Eugenia Leigh
- “When I Was Straight” by Julie Marie Wade
- “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” by Terrance Hayes
- “Ellen West” by Frank Bidart
- “St Zelda’s” by Allison Pinkerton
- “Woman of the Century” by Claire Polders
- “The Falling” by Michael Schmeltzer
- “Saudade” by Traci Brimhall
- “Self-Portrait as Vessel for Debris” by Heather Cox
- “In Which Athena Designs a Video Game with the Express Purpose of Trolling Her Father” by Amber Sparks
- “Girl” by Alexander Chee
- Poetry, April 2018 issue
recommended reading
Recommended Reading #7
- “32 Names for Future Hybrid Tulips” by Traci Brimhall
- “Magic City Ruse” by Ariel Francisco
- “The Field of Rooms and Halls” by Richard Siken
- “Kitchen Coven” by Avra Elliott
- “Vows (for a gay wedding)” by Joseph O. Legaspi
- “Adolescence” by Nin Andrews
- “Sea Church” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- “Essay on Craft” by Ocean Vuong
- “Science and Magic: Wind in Seven Hayao Miyazaki Films” by J.D. Ho
- “Suicidal Ideation and Who We Allow to Be Real” by Joanna Valente
- “I Used to Be a Writer–Then I Got Sick” by Emma Smith-Stevens
- “Origin Myth” by Alfredo Aguilar
- “On Ekphrasis Using Video Games” by William Hoffacker
- “Stardew” by Melissa Goodrich
Recommended Reading #6
- Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde
- “What Kind of Times Are These” by Adrienne Rich
- “Myth” by Muriel Rukeyser
- “Sewing Feathers” by Jennifer Givhan
- “Tangerine Trees & Little Bags of Sugar” by Su Cho
- “The Letter” by Mary Ruefle
- “Little Exercise” by Elizabeth Bishop
- “Postfeminism” by Brenda Shaughnessy
- “Echo” by Raymond Antrobus
Recommended Reading #5
- “The Third Stage” by Kendra Fortmeyer
- “Stepping Over My Shadow and Stepping Into Another” by Adam Clay
- “Dis Mem Ber” by Joyce Carol Oates, in Boulevard #94
- “We May Be Like Fish” by Anna Lea Jancewicz
- Issue #19 of the Adroit Journal
- Poetry, February 2017 issue
- The daily poetry found at the Rise Up Review, for these politically turbulent times
- Issue #6 of the Blueshift Journal
- Helen McClory’s TinyLetter, which features a weekly spotlight on overlooked books that deserve more love
Recommended Reading #4
- “The Village with All of the Boyfriends” by Zachary Doss
- “The Murder Sounds” by Amy Silverberg
- “How to Spend Your Time Before the Renegade Planet Makes It All Go Dark” by Justin Lawrence Daugherty
- “Grief as Mythos” by Brandon Taylor
- “Let’s Not Begin” by Maggie Smith
- “How the End Begins” by Cynthia Cruz
- “Ten Step Tulpamancy” by Kia Groom
- “Beach City” by Jaquira Díaz
- The Best Small Fictions 2015, edited by Robert Olen Butler
- The Bad Cover Letter Generator, built by Kendra Fortmeyer, which generates extremely professional cover letters for the aspiring writer (give it a whirl!)