Here's to fresh flowers and fresh poetry! 💐

Our May issue includes a foldout by Kate Asche, a new essay on persona poems by Michael Frazier, and a Leila Chatti (Leila Chatti) Mad Lib poem.

Cover art by Lynne Yun of Space Type.

Read it all here: bit.ly/4a6OUjD

Pyro by Particle

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#dnb

Ultraviolet forests 🌳

come closer 
consider my fisted hands trembling 
how the nails bite into the first layer of my flesh 
watch it break skin
see the blood

––Grace Iwashita-Taylor
#PoemADay

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Spaceport by Martin Sturtzer

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#electronica

I Woke Up Happy by Gabriella Vergilov

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#techno

I Can’t Stop by Gabriella Vergilov

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#techno

One Step Ahead by Gabriella Vergilov

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#techno

Inner by Lucid Void

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#deeptechno

Elemental by Zara

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#deeptechno #idm #dnb

For how can I be sure
  I shall see again
The world on the first of May
  Shining after the rain?

—Sara Teasdale

poets.org/poem/may-day-1

Write in the light
of all the languages
you know the earth contains,

—Meena Alexander

poets.org/poem/muse

Remember the brazen world?
Let’s find a room
with a window onto elms
strung with sunlight,
a cafe with polished cups,

—Meena Alexander

poets.org/poem/darling-c…

What seeps in me from weeks of rain 
making me forget 
the life-give part in water.

––Hari Alluri
cHARIots of fire 👐🏾
#PoemADay

poets.org/poem/spiral

I've decided to waste my life again,
Like I used to: get drunk on
The light in the leaves,

—Phillis Levin

poets.org/poem/may-day

Soul Platform by Holodec

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#electronica

Pomegranate Skies by Sepehr

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#experimentalmusic

Cloudward by Mary Halvorson

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#jazz

fleetingness
as a poem
and a spray of tulips

Ultraviolet forests 🌳