Over the past 9 months or so that I've been submitting, I've come across dozens of absolutely amazing poetry or prose pieces. I've had them saved on my computer for a while so I figured I might as well compile a list!
1. "My Brother My Wound" by Natalie Diaz, Poetry Foundation.
2. "Persimmons" by Li-Young Lee, Poetry Foundation.
3. "The Conditional" by Ada Limon, Poets.org.
4. "How to Look at Mexican Highways" by Monica de la Torre, Poetry Foundation.
5. "from Citizen, "You are in the dark, in the car..." by Claudia Rankine, Poetry Foundation.
6. "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe, Poets.org.
7. "Aubade with Burning City" by Ocean Vuong, Poetry Foundation.
8. "Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds," by John Murillo. Poetry Foundation.
9. "Taking It" by Vievee Francis, MUZZLE MAGAZINE.
10. "Post-Factual Love Poem" by Paul Guest, Poets.org.
11. "Domestic" by Carl Phillips, Poetry Foundation.
12. "Under Stars" by Dorianne Laux, Poets.org.
13. "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong, The New Yorker.
14. "Katherine With the Lazy Eye, Short. And Not a Good Poet" by Francine J. Harris, Rattle.
15. "In the Kitchen" by Stacie Cassarino, Poetry Foundation.
16. "Two Moths" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Poetry Foundation.
17. "What to Wear to Report Your Stalker to HR" by Kendra DeColo & Tyler Mills, Thrush Poetry.
18. "I butchered my hair today" by Nadia Gerassimenko, ELKE Journal.
19. "There Are Two Kinds of People in This World:" by Maya Jewell Zeller, Radar Poetry.
20. "How to Build a Home" by Samantha Dent, Daphne Magazine.
21. "The Life Cycle of a Peach Tree" by Christopher M. Drew, Third Point Press.
22. "morning routine" by Ivy Mullins, Veronica Lit Mag.
23. "The Mermaids" by Erinn Batykefer, cahoodaloodaling.
24. "I Have Not Pushed Back My Cuticles with an Orange Stick Since the Nixon Administration" by Kathy Fish, Monkey Bicycle.
25. "Why We Never Talk About Sugar" by Aubrey Hirsch, Vestal Review.
26. "Homonyms" by Kieran Mundy, Hobart Pulp.
27. "The Boy From the Moon" by Cathy Ulrich, MoonPark Review.
28. "Fissure" by Trevor K. Allred, Sidereal Magazine.
29. "holy/war" McKenzie Chinn, Sundog Lit.
30. "Waiting with My Mother in the Calimax Parking Lot" by Eloisa Amezcua, Cider Press Review.
31. "Defenestration" by Eloisa Amezcua, Forklift Ohio.
32. "On Not Screaming" by Eloisa Amezcua, Prelude Mag.
33. Three poems by Eloisa Amezcua, TYPO.
34. "Piñata Body and Hearing the Gunshot" by Sarah Gow, Synaesthesia Magazine.
35. "Love and Impatience" by Ruth Daniell, Synaesthesia Magazine..
36. "if it's about abuse, then yes, I'll answer the questions" by Luther Hughes, Winter Tangerine.
37. "Wisconsin" by Nicole Maye Goldberg, Winter Tangerine.
38. "A Vacancy" by Jade Matias Bell, Winter Tangerine.
39. "Dissection" by Jade Matias Bell, Winter Tangerine.
40. "Concepts" by Mason Mimi, seafoam magazine.
41. "50 Thousand Pictures of the Sunset" by Anthony Gaddess, seafoam magazine.
42. "Marching Orders" by Gayle Brandeis, Split Lip Magazine.
43. "Mercy Killing" by Lauren Yates, Foundry Journal.
44. "daddy issues R us" by Sophia Tempest, Maudlin House.
45. "Thorns" by Samuel J. Fox, Francis House.
46. "Come Here" by Dana Alsamsam, Bad Pony Mag.
47. "Scrabble with EB White" by Katie Manning, Drunk Monkeys.
47. "de / sex (ed)" by Shana Haydock, Reservoir.
48. by Topaz Winters, Reservoir.
49. "The Eclipse From the Perspective of a Fainting Goat" by Noa Nir, Queen Mob's Teahouse.
50. "About Face" by Amy Baskin, Every Pigeon.
51. "Parents of Two Young Children" by Mary Wlodarski, Every Pigeon.
52. "We Said I Love You, But I Think We Were Both Trying to Get the Last Word" by Siaara Freeman, (b)oink.
53. "13 Things I Have Mistaken for Other Things" by Adira Bennett, Maudlin House.
54. "taking notes" by Claudia Rojas, The Bookends Review.
55. "Postcard from Gone" by Leila Chatti, wildness.
56. "Here's a Picture of Me" by Naomi Washer, Crabfat Magazine.
57. "you spend the day hungry" by Amber Taylor, Crabfat Magazine.
58. "This morning, a hummingbird knocked itself" by Jane Wong, wildness.
59. "The Dead Whale" by Sarah Elaine Magin, Bitterzoet Magazine.
60. "Abuela is a Machete Wrapped in Her Favorite Apron" by Karla Cordero, Words Dance.
61. three poems by Rita Feinstein, Sundog Lit.
62. six poems by Talin Tahajian, inferior planets.
63. "Strange Hunger" by Lilah Galvin, The Hunger Journal.
64. "Shrinking in the Bath" by Ruth Carr, Crabfat Magazine.
65. "I Tried to Wash the Cat" by Katie Quinnelly, Threadcount.
66. "Respirators" by Carolin Hardaker, Amaryllis.
67. "How a Girl is Born Brutal" by Wesley Rae Newburn, Terse Journal.
68. two poems by Noah LeBien, Empty Mirror.
69. "Year of the Pig" by Kanika Lawton, Longleaf Review.
70. "survivor" by Rebecca Kokitus, Feminine Collective.
71. "In Absentia" by Quinn Lui, Synaesthesia Magazine.
72. three poems by Kathryne Gargano, Synaesthesia Magazine.
73. two poems by Amy Lafrankie, Synaesthesia Magazine.
74. "I Invite My Parents To a Dinner Party" by Chen Chen, Poets.org.
75. "Dear David" by Yael Van der Wouden, Longleaf Review.
76. "Mermaids" by Amy Jannotti, Calliope Lit Mag.
77. "Examinations" by Caleb Lovelace, Bombus Press.
78. "Flower Girl" by Lilayna Davies, Mojave He[art] Review.
79. "Iris Pools" by Jamie O'Connell, Sidereal Magazine.
80. "Ode to Dancing Queen" by Raisa Imogen, Sidereal Magazine.
81. two poems by Jesse Rice Evans, L'Ephemere Review.
82. two poems by Haily Stager, L'Ephemere Review.
83. "Apocalypse Scenario I" by Chloe N Clark, Moonchild Magazine.
84. "My Depression: Side A" by Nicole Yurcaba, Moonchild Magazine.
85. "Infestation" by Elizabeth Fong, Moonchild Magazine.
86. "Enthusiastic Death" by Jazmine Ellington, Moonchild Magazine.
87. "I remember Moses" by Aria Starling, Moonchild Magazine.
88. "Prophecy for the Fuckboy Who Thinks I'm a Bad Parent" by Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Moonchild Magazine.
89. "To be a woman of color" by Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, Moonchild Magazine.
90. "THE POET FINALLY WRITES A PERIOD POEM, AND IN DOING SO, QUITE LITERALLY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER" by Harper Russet, Rising Phoenix Review.
91. "& Afterwards" by Quinn Lui, L'Ephemere Review.
92. "I keep a strange list" by Talin Tahajian, Peach Mag.
93. "A Record of Everything I've Outlived" by S. Erin Batiste, Peach Mag.
94. "Piss" by Liz Bowen, Peach Mag.
95. "Was it rape-----" by Elisabeth Horan, Milk + Beans.
96. two poems by Amy Saul-Zerby, Peach Mag.
97. "This Too Shall Pass" by Kevin Bertolero, Peach Mag.
98. "An Apology" by Bethany Squires, Peach Mag.
99. three poems by Carmen E Brady, Peach Mag.
100. (***this poem was taken down).
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