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  • Sunday Recap & Suck It In by Maggie Devers

    Sunday Recap & Suck It In by Maggie Devers
    Jan 11 2026
    Here’s your recap of this week’s poems plus one new poem to carry us into the week ahead.On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Good. She was murdered by ICE on January 7, 2026. In 2020, she won the undergraduate Academy of American Poets Prize in 2020 for this poem.Jan 5 - Becoming Again by Reya @moodmakerperson on Instagram. Her book, Teenage Tide, is available now.Jan 6 - To Fall Is to Begin by Irina Vérène @queen_of_gore on Instagram. They are featured in Haunted Words Press’ anthology, Our Dearest Devotions, which contains their flash fiction piece about friendship, fae magic, and gender transition.Jan 7 - Transmorphing by Özge Lena @lenaozge on Instagram. You can find her on Substack @lenaozge where she presents her new approach to poetry, Catapoetry. It is a poetic framework about the interwoven and inseparable catastrophes of our age. You can listen to me read luminous girl lullaby by Özge Lena on Instagram @rembrandts.cure.Jan 8 - Genesis of Her by Kiran Ashraf @kiran_ashraf on Instagram and @kiranashraf7 on Substack.Jan 9 - Part Oracle, Part Warrior by Aslam @smmaslam on Instagram and @aslammohammed on Substack. His book, Paper Boat in Rumi’s Garden, is available now.Jan 10 - The Tender Descending by Ellie A
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  • The Tender Descending by Ellie A

    The Tender Descending by Ellie A
    Jan 10 2026
    The Tender DescendingEllie AThe earth exhales and everything slows.The trees remember what it means to be bare.We gather what warmth remains in our handsand stitch our dreams beneath quiet skies.Each flake that lands upon the skinis a messenger of mercy,a reminder that even in endings,something tender still descends.

    More from Ellie A ↓

    1. @lines_between_living on Instagram and @linesbtwnliving on Substack
    2. Read more from her on her blog, Lines Between Living

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    1 Min.
  • Part Oracle, Part Warrior by Aslam

    Part Oracle, Part Warrior by Aslam
    Jan 9 2026
    part oracle, part warrior Aslam a crescent moon, hangs like a scaron her shoulder’s silence.her lips sealedby vow or violence.
    her eyes do not ask.they know.they have watched empires bleedon blades of their own lies.
    she stands in gray,spine unbent,each scar a sentenceshe never had to explain.
    call it rebellion.call it myth.a womanwho no longer waits.
    she is the ink and the echo,the storm braided into calm.
    you may look,but you will not read her.not everyone seeswhat silence reveals.
    so i offer you a line,a voice shaped by defiance,a presence drawn in truth.
    let me speak for her,since her lips are sealed:she would not kneel.
    she is herefor you to bow.

    More from Aslam ↓

    1. @smmaslam on Instagram
    2. @aslammohammed on Substack
    3. His book, Paper Boat in Rumi’s Garden, is available now

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    2 Min.
  • On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Good

    On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Good
    Jan 8 2026
    On Learning to Dissect Fetal PigsRenée Nicole Good

    This poem was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2020.

    i want back my rocking chairs,

    solipsist sunsets,
    & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.
    i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores
    (mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—
    the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):
    remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs inside my nostrils,
    & salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms.
    under clippings of the moon at two forty five AM I study&repeat
    ribosome
    endoplasmic—
    lactic acid
    stamen

    at the IHOP on the corner of powers and stetson hills—

    i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut—
    maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul.

    it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge that used to sit, a cloth against fevered forehead.
    can i let them both be? this fickle faith and this college science that heckles from the back of the classroom


    now i can’t believe—
    that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—
    all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:
    life is merely
    to ovum and sperm
    and where those two meet
    and how often and how well
    and what dies there.
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    3 Min.
  • Genesis of Her by Kiran Ashraf

    Genesis of Her by Kiran Ashraf
    Jan 8 2026
    Genesis of HerKiran AshrafHer body is like a powerful tidelooming in an ever-flowing motionchewing on her emotions like riceshe aches to read in sheltering armswearing her chaos for a better lifeher skin is a wild thing at its bestmemories in her songs of griefnow trembled and hummed in her boneslike a silent gust of unfinished wreckageor an absent orchestra of musical hellher two eyes wander through the meadowslessons forced on her forgiving shouldersall her exhausting days and unsent textsare winding up in threads of crocheted woolshe exists in this unyielding temporalgrowing stronger among unseen enemies

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    1. @kiran_ashraf on Instagram and @kiranashraf7 on Substack

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    2 Min.
  • Transmorphing by Özge Lena

    Transmorphing by Özge Lena
    Jan 7 2026
    Transmorphing Özge Lena

    This Poem was commended for Winged Muse Poetry Competition of Winged Moon Literary Magazine

    After Harpy by Valerie Hammond
    In seven nights she will burstinto nothing. Now all alone in a creamcoloured void, a woundlike creature, a word hunger like no other.Soon you will meet herin the neon gloaming, after the ruby acheof not writing for a long winter,frost flowers in your heart. Her low wingswill be closed, sharp clawspointing down and down, some frozensadness on her pale face.Sunset’s vermilion beams will bleedinto your lungs as you holdher by hair, unfurl the ribbon to tie itaround your neck, to see your freedomknotted in its silk, and breathelife into her mouth. You will watch herunfold her wings wide, talonswill scratch the soft air when she cloaksyou tight until you morph intoa harpy to write a septet poem in red ink.

    More from Özge Lena ↓

    1. @lenaozge on Instagram
    2. You can find her on Substack @lenaozge where she presents her new approach to poetry, Catapoetry. It is a poetic framework about the interwoven and inseparable catastrophes of our age.
    3. You can listen to me read luminous girl lullaby by Özge Lena on Instagram @rembrandts.cure

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    2 Min.
  • To Fall Is to Begin by Irina Vérène

    To Fall Is to Begin by Irina Vérène
    Jan 6 2026
    To Fall Is to BeginIrina Vérènei won’t be draggedpast the pearly gates—i’ll leave of my own volition.with these heavenly rulesstifling my breath,i must say,it seems a wise decision.
    amidst the flamesand the curling smoke,i shall rise anew—after all,a fall from heaven,a descent to hell,is a baptism, too.

    More from Irina Vérène ↓

    1. @queen_of_gore on Instagram
    2. They are featured in Haunted Words Press' anthology, Our Dearest Devotions, which contains their flash fiction piece about friendship, fae magic, and gender transition.

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    1 Min.
  • Becoming Again by Reya

    Becoming Again by Reya
    Jan 5 2026
    Becoming AgainReyaI didn’t rise like fire —I rose like forgiveness.Lost me once, still trying,sky’s the limit, I’m craving the climb.
    Thoughts that once broke menow make me alive again.Words find me, like a heart reborn —one heartbreak broke a million dreams,but that heartbreak built me stronger —heartless enough to fight for them again.

    More from Reya ↓

    1. @moodmakerperson on Instagram
    2. Her book, Teenage Tide, is available now.

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    1 Min.