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

Special FeatureJoanna Valentespecial feature, poetry, ashley miranda
Ashley Miranda: In a Porcelain Cup, I’ve Put Your Ejaculate and Read Our Future
Drew Collins

Drew Collins

this is a love poem in my own way

in a porcelain cup, i’ve put your ejaculate and read our future. there are blackened leaves at our feet. we want to eat our young because there is a famine. we will never be more alive. even when the bed we lay in disintegrates and acid fills our lungs, we’ll keep chirping. the future is a ram conducting our dance. the sun copulates with the earth, keeping my uterus burnt keeping your eyes set on starry figures. you’ll say infinite and i’ll just melt our hair until we turn translucent and filled.

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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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
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteKailey Tedesco, poetry, special feature

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
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteAshley Mares, special feature, poetry

Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands

Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press) A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press), and Killer (Ghost City Press, forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, Prelude, PANK, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com and follow her @ash_mares2. 

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Ashley Mares: Unclean Hands
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteDimitri Reyes, poetry, special feature

Dimitri Reyes: I Told the Brother Gracias

Dimitri Reyes is a SortaRican PuertoVegan poet born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. Through experience, his poetry becomes a meditation on veganism, well-being, Latinx culture, and growing up in the inner city. Dimitri is currently  a candidate in the Rutgers- Newark MFA program and his poetry is published or forthcoming in Acentos Review, Naugatuck River Review, Radius, DrylandLit, and others.

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Dimitri Reyes: I Told the Brother Gracias
Special FeatureJoanna ValenteAshley Bethard, poetry, special feature

Ashley Bethard: Make You Forget

Ashley Bethard’s writing has been published in The Rumpus, PANK Magazine, Hobart, Fanzine and others. She is the 2017 recipient of the Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, and her winning essay “Of Blood” was published in the Fall 2017 issue of Ohioana Quarterly. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Ashland University. Currently she lives in Dayton, Ohio, where she’s working on her first book. She works in digital media, and was named to the Newspaper Association of America's "30 Under 30" list in 2016. Find her online at @ashleybethard and ashleybethard.com.  

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Ashley Bethard: Make You Forget