poetry

  • Together, We Are Strong: A Letter from the Editor
    by Jetta Rae
    We are, to move in a more collective direction that serves a multitude of communities, including sections of Harlot, with additional editors to help us fight on.
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  • Sara June Woods' Poetry Summons and Celebrates The Witches
    by Sara June Woods
    "The circumstances surrounding Death-Witch's death are that she was alone on a road, & a person saw what she looked like & decided to kill her. I guess that's all it takes."
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  • Ginger Ko's Poetry Explores Race, Intimacy, Poverty

    by Ginger Ko
    "How / do I decide / whether it is / important that I / run my fingernail / down my thigh, / to watch the little / trail of white / before my brownness / fills back in?"
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  • Vetch #2 Attempts to Put Poetry Before Politics
    by Zach Ozma
    Zach Ozma reviews the latest from Vetch. Their second issue finds trans poetry "arriving but have not arrived," tugged between poetry and the identity politics that have come to dominate much of trans discourse.
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  • Kate Schapira's Epistles to a Sickened World

    by Kate Schapira
    "You live here with us all the time. / You are the shape of the air in our house. / You don't need me to explain yourself to you, / bitter, fragrant, leaking a little sewer gas on / your way home, who could blame you."
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