Special FeatureJoanna ValenteC. M. Keehl, special feature, poetry

C. M. Keehl: Getting Cold

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteC. M. Keehl, special feature, poetry
C. M. Keehl: Getting Cold
Michael Wiese

Michael Wiese

parallax / getting cold/  standing in front of the fridge

it’s noon, I’m high
& the light from the fridge arcs
displacement   time
collides into cold
alteration         my heat

is a motion & is wave is
energetic/ my mass defined
8 minutes distance
from sun          symmetry
by degrees
& probability

so I put the date on leftovers
to remind myself the way I will
most likely gravitate
copernican/ model orbiting
a concept         abstract functioning
I don’t want to eat to
have more space inside of my
reality or epistemology

gazing forward face
the box/ & cedar
I perceive the funeral
inscribed into my eventually
& take another hit
find way/ to pass time
fill time            keep time on
moving with
time is a warm something
held close to my bodies

keep trying to find context where
friction began.

C. M. Keehl is part dreamer / part destroyer but all alien. She currently lives in suburbs near Detroit with her PIC, a dog named Carver. She is the managing editor at Dirty Chai & has a microchap UNTIL THE FOXES with Ghost City Press. Her most recent poems are in/ forthcoming Fog Machine, Public Pool, Heavy Feather Review, Up The Staircase Quarterly, Vending Machine Press & Spy Kids Review. Keep your eyeballs peeled @CMKeehl // cmkeehl.tumbr.com

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Daniela Olszewska: Sleeping Machine

Daniela Olszewska is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), True Confessions of An Escapee From The Capra Facility For Wayward Girls (Spittoon Press, 2013), and Citizen J (Artifice Books, 2013). With Carol Guess, she is the co-author of  How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and Human-Ghost Hybrid Project(Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming).  Her website is: http://www.danielaolszewska.com

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDaniela Olszewska, special feature, poetry, photography
Daniela Olszewska: Sleeping Machine
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Lana Bella: Dear Suki

A Pushcart nominee, Lana Bella is an author of two chapbooks, Under My Dark (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2016) and Adagio (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming), has had poetry and fiction featured with over 250 journals, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Columbia Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, Plainsongs, San Pedro River Review, The Writing Disorder, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere, among others. 

Lana divides her time between the US and the coastal town of Nha Trang, Vietnam, where she is a mom of two far-too-clever frolicsome imps. 

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Lana Bella: Dear Suki
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Ashley Miranda: In a Porcelain Cup, I’ve Put Your Ejaculate and Read Our Future

Ashley Miranda is a latinx poet from Chicago. Her work will be or has been previously featured by the Denver Quarterly, CCM Press, Ghost City Review, Lockjaw Magazine, and Glass Poetry Press. She tweets impulsive poetry and other musings @dustwhispers.

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Ashley Miranda: In a Porcelain Cup, I’ve Put Your Ejaculate and Read Our Future
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Kailey Tedesco: To Suck Dry

Kailey Tedesco's books She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publications) and These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press) are both forthcoming. She is the editor-in-chief of a Rag Queen Periodical and a performing member of the NYC Poetry Brothel. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. You can find her poetry featured or forthcoming in Prelude, Prick of the Spindle, Bellevue Literary Review, Vanilla Sex Magazine, and more. For more information, please visit kaileytedesco.com. 

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Kailey Tedesco: To Suck Dry