Possession
How do our possessions and possessives seek to possess us? Janice Sim explores the layered ways hunger is understood.
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Christina Hennemann
Apr 22, 20232 min read
The year you lost two lives and gained six pounds
This poem explores hunger in its different forms: hunger for food, love, and experiencing life to the fullest.
Mike Waterson
Apr 22, 20232 min read
Lost Love
A poem written while the writer coming to terms with the death of the only person who has ever and probably will ever love him for who he is
Edith Riegler
Apr 18, 20231 min read
the ravished one
This is about a specific person, but it's also not, because we all straggled drifters, our holy grail just looks different.
Robert Frede Kenter
Mar 5, 20231 min read
The Carer
The Carer is a poem by Robert Frede Kenter responding to the idea of 'sacrifice'. It features in Erato Magazine's Issue II: Sacrifice
Tyler Jones
Dec 5, 20221 min read
For What It’s Worth
'For What It's Worth' by Tyler Jones examines the theme of 'Sacrifice'
Ariane Lauren
Dec 5, 20222 min read
Gravity
by Ariane Lauren Not considering consoling me on the sofa, you sit shaken, slumped at your desk. Cradling your head, mumbling, informing...
Alorah Welti
Dec 5, 20221 min read
Eve Climbs Inside Adam to Know the Truth of Things
'Eve Climbs Inside Adam to Know the Truth of Things' is a poem by Alorah Welti.
Charlie Bowden
Dec 5, 20221 min read
Venus Cannot Fly, She's Trapped
'Venus Cannot FLy, She's Trapped' is a poem by Charlie Bowden.
Hesse Phillips
Nov 28, 20222 min read
October 2003
'October' deals with sacrifice in terms of grief, loss of a loved one, innocence, and life.
Written by Phillips in memory of Dave Pierce.
Becca Fang
Nov 28, 20221 min read
The Morning After
"This poem explores the little things we sacrifice to please or impress the people we are intimate with, to the detriment of ourselves."
Keira Armstrong
Nov 21, 20221 min read
Sacrificial Lamb
"in the grip of bleach cream hands,
i let my head sink into my father's waist.
the sinews of my neck splinter
under the squeeze of gravity"
Andrea Gerada
Nov 21, 20221 min read
Iphigenia
"Iphigenia" by Andrea Gerada speaks to the penance daughters pay under angry fathers.
Sharon Pan
Sep 16, 20221 min read
fireworks mark doomsday
my eardrums
pop and explode
at the sound of fireworks crackling
in the night sky, black canvas
with inky white stars that pulse
with light
Anna Wythe
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Exquisite Hunger
"These thoughts came together when I encountered the paper dragons. They seemed like a much better use of paper than the poems I was writing
Anna Wythe
Sep 12, 20221 min read
My Friend
my friend writes snow falling into photographs
my friend writes ‘the death of Walter Benjamin’
Anna Wythe
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Exegesis
This poem came out of an encounter, a walk with a near-stranger by the Willamette River.
Joe Pickard
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Waiting for the Surf
'Your body slipping between waves
reminds me of absence between years
and how it dips with force pushing,
pulling back and forth'
Joe Pickard
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Stigmata
'To suffer your stigmata
at the kitchen sink
is to know you.'
Milly Butler
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Out Of Time
If I could begin again
l'd abstain from prodding the hourglass,
and addle the ache to gutter the sand faster.
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