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When I Was Young I Wanted to Get Noticed by Rhea Melina
When I was young I wanted to get noticed I would pour my heart out to strangers and spill my art all over the streets and scream on...
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Two Poems by Suzanna C. de Baca
That's a Good Girl That’s a Good Girl He said: That’s a good girl. On your knees, head down, on the floor, take some more. For the...
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Why I Share My Smile with No Man by Paul Brucker
You can say, “No, thank you. Not right now.” You can say, “No, I don’t want to pose.” Or you can simply say, “No,” in a very loud voice....
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It’s Just a Tampon, Not a Trojan Horse by Kira Coleman
I wish I’d broken up with you on the day you said on the phone that there must be something wrong with my body if I couldn’t insert a...
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Two Poems by Katharyn Machan
My Brother My brother lives in a box of cigars. Each day every day he lifts the lid to peek at the world and hopes the world won’t...
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Two Poems by Jean Varda
Same Old Devil You penetrated me with your manhood, breaking my world like shattered glass, heaving your hairy chest against me, scorning...
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The Red Witch by Elizabeth Gade
You are bound by nothing. Not by the jelly fished blood clots orbiting the toilet bowl, undulating and otherworldly. Not these badly...
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Three Poems by Arika Elizenberry
Rememory Maybe I was 8 or maybe 9. My memory is fuzzy like the buzzing TV in my aunt's bedroom. Rememory shows my chest rising and...
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Shame by Anchal Jain
Why is it so difficult to say the truth, So what if they don't believe me, Why can't I trust myself, when I am the one who experienced...
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Three Poems by Kira Coleman
Doubts There are nights when I stand under the shower head feeling the hot water expand my hair and wondering if you knew what you were...
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Girls with Red Flowers by Virginia Barrett
Girls with Red Flowers One cradles a bowl of red flowers, her nipples the same deep rose as the blooms. Tahiti is hot— we women may all...
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Three Poems by John Ganshaw
Leave All Behind There you stood staring into the mirror thinking you were alone, but you weren’t, I was standing before you, peering...
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Reclaim by Traci Neal
Reclaim This body knows brands where brutality breeds. A process plans to split my legs like mayo marinated on a sandwich. Futile...
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Three Poems by Persephone Leonard
Eyes I’ve looked into the eyes of evil, Dilated, black pupils, Erasing earth brown, As he shoved the pill, Into my mouth, And held me...
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House of Shame by Anna Smith
House of Shame A letter to my body: For years you’ve played protector Shielded me from a truth that our twelve-year-old brain couldn’t...
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Two Poems by Suzanna C. de Baca
I Was Swallowed by a Beam of Light Some say you were a plane, a flare, a mirage. / At first barely visible in the sky /but then your...
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