"It is not in my nature to be soothing. / but I promise you  :  his corpse won’t sprout. / His lungs will stay pinned inside his moonish chest." Two poems from Dr. Bitch dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

“In the distance / a small boat / softly rocks…” "Painting" & "Dispensation" by @yk__kim, a writer from South Korea and Pennsylvania. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"This is my final hope— / granddaughter, drink a sip of / this ginger root tea. When you are done, / remember." "Genealogy" and "5, 6, 7, 8" by Chelsea Zhu, a writer from Maryland. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"Not with flame but with dreams of flame, the article began." -- Relapse #2 from William Varner dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"to fold the s o f t e s t p i e c e o f myself into the cold halo of a hand & creep open into a small mess." "things i think about when i’m supposed to be praying" & "i lied, i don’t think i like men enough" from Shy-Zahir Moses. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"It’s almost a Russian evening with a moon as low as a body" Three poems by Stella Hayes, who grew up in Brovary, a suburb outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, Chicago, and Los Angeles. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"And through the glass windows, the city, the capital, from which all the small-eared rabbits have run away." From: Etc. by antiphony: a journal & press. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"He is rider & ridden, marrow / & drilled-out bone, sorrow & sorrow / forsaken (& so forth)." Clomping Onto the Porch & Three Wasps Dabbed In by John Repp, a writer living in Erie, Pennsylvania. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"The mind zooms in, zooms out, / zooms to the death room, back / to bed to sleep. Ten years." The Time You Need & Mediaeval Sentences from Californian poet Kathleen Winter. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

“I am wearing two sweaters trying to stay warm / I wish I had a baseball glove to take with me / into the ghost forest.” — Everybody Needs Company by Martin Pedersen, a writer who lived for over forty years in eastern Sicily. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"as if the ragged cartilage / of this knuckle could be made new, melted, purified, / abstracted from pain, like snow..." three poems by Buffalo-based writer Joe Hall on directions & snow. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"At first, the body was a Ziploc, / vomited from the whip of the wave." Jellyfish, Ashore & Saline by Zoe Ward, a creative writing and philosophy student at Denison University. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"We drink in the evenings... / In the mornings / I piece stories together" Two excerpts from “MARMORE” by Claire Farley, a poet, editor, and literary critic from Québec currently living in Los Angeles. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"When the cold was enough / in us we returned home to our red house, which had one / room." Red House & Raft Craft by Liliana Greyf, who writes from Providence, RI. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

We buried her deep because / whatever she said happened. Two poems by Arvinder Kaur Johri. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"When crying, tell me, this tropical scent throughout the rain, and everything I truly wish for..." Afterglow & Recedes by Joefel Bolo, a queer writer from the Philippines. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

(this is a calculation) Swing Justice by Meredith MacLeod Davidson, a poet and writer from Virginia. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-we…

"I want myself as regurgitate— / an intimacy fragmented and bare..." Selfie Sonnet [Woman in green lace dress takes a selfie in a coffee shop] by Kristen Brida (she/her). dialogist.org/poetry/2025-we…

March 28, 8pm! Come find us at Sibylline Records AWP

Come join us Friday night, 8pm! 3/28 At Sibylline Records, 15 S El Molino Ave, Pasadena Amanda Gunn, Caroline Kanner, Helene Achanzar, Tarik Dobbs, Ethan Seeley, and Ricardo Frasso Jamarillo <3