I didn't want my first list to get too huge, so I'm going to continue with the next hundred here as I find more poems and stories I love.
1. "Touch in 9" by Emma Scott Schaefer, Maudlin House.
2. "Describing the Sky to Someone I'm Falling For" by Rhea Ramakrishnan, Maudlin House.
3. "I was born in the mall of america" by Amy Saul Zerby, Maudlin House.
(**4, 5, and 6 were all taken down)
7. "Another Day at the Office" by Kristin Garth, Rhythm & Bone.
8. "THE HYMNAL: HOW DEEP THE SILENCE OF THE SEA" by Anderson Peguero, Bad Pony.
9. "GOD OF THUNDER DIVORCES GOD OF LIGHTNING" by Joanna C. Valente, Bad Pony.
10."Olympians" by Jackie Sherbow, Bad Pony.
11. "Dangerous Blonde" by Amy Pence, Bad Pony.
12. "Self Portrait as Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking" by C.T. Salazar, Bad Pony.
13. "reasons why my father sent me a picture of a dead coyote" and "on observing a hyacinth to distract myself from the nature of my want" by Terrence Abrahams, Hobart Pulp.
14. "Superbloom" by Audra Puchalshki, Parentheses Journal.
15. "awful astronomy" by Arielle Tipa, Yes Poetry.
16. "I Want to Be the Person That Names Hurricanes" by Keegan Lester, Cotton Xenomorph.
17. "a breakdown of types and costs of American Girl Dolls" by Ashley Miranda, Cotton Xenomorph.
18. "Rock, Paper, Moon" by Kathryn McMahon, Cotton Xenomorph.
19. "The Afterlife is a Room Full of Windows You Are Trying to Avoid" by Joanna C. Valente, Cotton Xenomorph.
20. "A Nearly Beautiful Thing" by Cathy Ulrich, Okay Donkey.
21. "bile" by Rebecca Kokitus, Rust + Moth.
22. "Isabela" by Darci Schummer, Synaesthesia.
23. "I Dreamt the Ocean Was My Mother" by Kanika Lawton, Crab Fat Magazine.
24. "I Love You" by Jenny George, Poets.org.
25. "There is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier" by Matthew Rohrer, Poets.org.
26. "Undetectable" by Danez Smith, The New Yorker.
27. "Parallel Inventions" by Linette Reeman, BOAAT Press.
28. "Why I Won't Write About the Boy" by Justin Davis, BOAAT Press.
30. "Lotus Eater" by Derek Berry, BOAAT Press.
31. "Emoji" by C. Bain, BOAAT Press.
32. "Reincarnation" by Karla Cordero, BOAAT Press.
33. "I Am in This World, But Not of This World" by Chelsea Dingman, BOAAT Press.
34. "Ugly-Crying in the Safeway Parking Lot" by Milo Gallagher, BOAAT Press.
35. "thaw" by Sophia Holtz, BOAAT Press.
36. "A Pilates Instructor Says Hold There And Pulse" by Alicia Mountain, BOAAT Press.
37. "Etymology of butch" by Kristin Chang, BOAAT Press.
38. "gasoline lover" by Jenna Velez, Rose Quartz Journal.
39. "Object Permanence" by Nicole Sealey, American Poetry Review.
40. "The Heart's Drip" by Rebecca Kokitus, Split Lip Magazine (CNF).
41. "How to Teach Your Cat to Talk" by Francine Witte, Jellyfish Review. (FF)
42. "BABYGIRL" by Maitreyi Ray, Peach Magazine.
43. "When the News Broke" by Marian Christie, L'Ephemere Review. 44. "Not all poems are forks" by Sam Herschel Wein, Cotton Xenomorph.
45. "Sharp Teeth / Soft Hold" by Melody Nielson, tenderness lit.
46. three poems by Helga Floros, tenderness lit.
47. "opal" by Kristie Shoemaker, tenderness lit.
48. "A LIST OF ACCIDENTALLY INTIMATE THINGS" by Mary Boo Anderson, tenderness lit.
49. "Children are a harvest" by Aubrey Eli Aileen, tenderness lit.
50. three poems by Ava Chapman, Peach Mag.
51. "in the seventh grade, Delaney taught me the term "pancake nipples"" and "Noli me tangere" by Lydia Havens, Up the Staircase Quarterly.
52. "I'm so tired of almost crying on the train" by Fullamusu Bangura, Peach Mag.
53. "The Museum of Second Chances" by Daniel Romo, tenderness lit.
54. "everything I write about you feels like vomit" by Pamela Dungao, tenderness lit.
55. "Living is the Hardest Part of Living" by Anhvu Buchanan and Brent Piller, tenderness lit.
56. "orange floral minnows-round 2" by Sophia Kiang, tenderness lit.
57. "say uncle" by Wimpy AF, tenderness lit.
58. "I saw your first love while at work and had to pretend not to recognize her from instagram" by Eliott Sky Case, tenderness lit.
59. "Cetaphobe" by Sam Bellamy, tenderness lit.
60. "Sperm Count Me Out" by Clint Forrette, tenderness lit.
61. "Highway Giant" by Carolyn Chung, tenderness lit.
62. "Still Life" by Mariel Fechik, tenderness lit.
63. "Little Voices, Little Waves" and "Lucid Dreaming" by Kevin Bertolero, tenderness lit.
64. "Grief, Carrying" by Kanika Lawton, Rust + Moth.
65. "Hammond B3 Organ Cistern" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, The New Yorker.
66. "Scheherazade" by Richard Siken.
67. "My Grandmother the Leo Tells Me About her Nine Lives" by Jessica Abughattas, BOAAT Press.
68. "Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild" by Kathy Fish, Jellyfish Review.
69. "Obit" by Victoria Chang, Narrative Magazine.
70. "Everything" by Jane Wong, Poetry Foundation.
71. "It began right here." by Danez Smith.
72. "When pain makes me 'Good'" by Liz Howard, Synaesthesia Magazine.
73. "Black Feathers" by Kathryn McMahon, Synaesthesia Magazine. (FF)
74. "Bouquet Garni" by Mary Scott, Synaesthesia Magazine. (FF)
75. "Lambs" by Melissa Goode, Synaesthesia Magazine. (FF)
76. "Batter" by Diana Clark, Synaesthesia Magazine.
77. "I Eat the Earth" by Aimee Lowenstern, Synaesthesia Magazine.
78. three poems by Quinn Lui, Synaesthesia Magazine.
79. three micros by Noa Sivan, Synaesthesia Magazine.
80. "A Good Man, A Good Man, A Good Man" by Marie Baleo, Maudlin House.
81. "Love Affair with the Apocalypse" by Erik Fuhrer, Maudlin House.
82. "the depression cookbook" by Zoe Canner, Maudlin House.
83. three poems by Jesse Prado, Maudlin House.
84. "The Patron Saint of Dorito Dust" by Justin Karcher, Maudlin House.
85. "Self-Portrait as So Much Potential" by Chen Chen, Poetry Foundation.
86. "Unsaid" by Alycia Pirmohamed, Dirty Paws Poetry.
87. "I Start Crying During the Best Part of the Film" by Topaz Winters, Rust + Moth.
88. "Parasite" by Arielle Tipa, Dirty Paws Poetry.
89. "WHILE TALKING TO THE ELEPHANT STATUES IN MY PSYCHIATRIST’S OFFICE, I REALIZE THEY ARE MORE HUMAN THAN I AM" by Ally Wharton, Maudlin House.
90. "[Printed on Wine Bottles]" by Tyler Friend, Maudlin House.
91. "Sable" by Kanika Lawton, Cotton Xenomorph.
92. "An Ending" by Jessica Xu, The Hunger Journal.
93. "SANTA CRUZ FOREVER" by Chestina Craig, Vagabond City Lit.
94. "Poem in Which My Mother Tells Me Not to Do A Pap smear Because It Might Tear My Nonexistent Hymen" by Noor Hindi, underblong.
95. "Period Piece" and "cocoon" by Sophia Holtz, underblong.
96. "American Cavewall Sonnet" by C.T. Salazar, Foundry.
97. "jook-sing" by Jade Cho, BOAAT Press.
98. "Poem Written as Barter for $366.12 Outstanding in Bills" by J. Bailey Hutchinson, BOAAT Press.
99. "Requirements for Insertion" by Erin Lynch, BOAAT Press.
100. "We May Have Just a Year to Prepare for A Supervolcanic Eruption" by Kristin Robertson, BOAAT Press.
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