In what moment will I appear stupidest to my daughter, I wonder, standing in the end of the yard where the jasmine smell doesn’t reach
Category Archives: New Releases
Itasca – Imitation of War
When the dawn breaksIs the pillow over your headOr the phone in front of your face?
Kendl Winter – Banjo Mantras
There you sitat the edge of your bedscanning cable for tits.and on comesPenn and Teller: Bullshit
Sally Anne Morgan – Carrying
Suitcases slept in the car Kid didn’t sleep at all First family drive at dawn
Car Colors – Old Death
I took a long drive. The first anniversary of the last night you were alive.
Empty Country – Empty Country II
Who keeps the zookeepers?
Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band – Dancing on the Edge
Have yet to divide Still just reducing The fraction
Mary Lattimore – Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
The most beautiful frames in film history: – Bruce Campbell exeunt Darkman – Patrick Ewing in The Exorcist 3
Lewsberg – Out and About
Bold of my therapist to expect change when their waiting room magazines remain the same
Mitski – The Land is Inhospitable and So are We
Could a pumpkin rind protect a man?
Mary Jane Dunphe – Stage of Love
I’ve seen that actor’s face long enough that I love them.
Strawberry Runners – Strawberry Runners
Inquiring unfinished lives want to know: What contractor is gouging and ghosting on god?
Who is She? – Goddess Energy
rise, accessorized in pug fur, and summon the nearest cheese
Fiddlehead – Death is Nothing to Us
this fury’s almost nourishing, like olives ripening over and over
Daniel Westcott – Kissing and Danieling
Every bar I ever saw you play is closed. It’s a shame, I know. It’s a shame I know.
Cory Branan – Gatlinburg
I remember the kitchen but not where we would’ve kept our wine and spirits
Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental
You wouldn’t think there’d be such a big difference between Decembers 2022 and 2023.
Vulture Feather – Liminal Fields
Summer is a home invader Florida can’t kill.
Gia Margaret – Romantic Piano
If this cold front doesn’t hit us, I’m done fucking for the year.
Alex Lahey – The Answer is Always Yes
not being happy makes me so fucking angry
Westerman – An Inbuilt Fault
Swings, slides, and wind chimes. Cross Main Street for a croissant and to watch traffic.
Country Westerns – Forgive the City
In the field behind the honors college dorm, the Stetson-wearing, Black-and-Mild-smoking virgin playing Travelling Willburys songs on his mandolin goes unnoticed.
Josh Small – Reinventing Michael McDonald
Minnie Ripperton wrote “Loving You” in the next neighborhood over and shamefully, reader, there is no shrine.
Jenny Conlee – Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano
The hawks don’t seem To mind the increase of bubble Activity in our backyard
Sweet Dreams Nadine – Sweet Dreams Nadine
For years I mistook Those squeaky ducks For bats
Two Runner – Modern Cowboy
if we had more friends, we could pick more blueberries
Carolyn Mark – Open Season
the fêtes are full of frets when all the guests could be hosts
Treehorn – the Place Where I’m Calling From
On a hill in Jamaica Plain, I saw a band I’d never see again. And all the folks on that hill with me, Just as likely I’ll never see.
Gina Birch – I Play My Bass Loud
I didn’t know how to be in a skate park Or watch a ska band Until I closed my eyes to listen And got made fun of
Rozi Plain – Prize
Been on the bench these beautiful days, meaning not participating, not on an actual bench, which would be nice.
Yo La Tengo – Aselestine
What’s being woven with the cosmic cotton that appears to us as clouds and dust? I hope an oversized nightshirt, baseball sleeves, big enough for mankind’s knees.
Janel Leppin – Ensemble Volcanic Ash
I can remember, as I grew taller, the feeling of my arms hugging higher and higher up your back, eventually over your shoulders, and now, just over. I love you. I love you.
Lara Rosseel – Hert
How long is the sky’s recovery after lightning? Because it takes my back a week to calm a spasm.
Christine Fellows – Stuff We All Get
a week later, what’s the closest I can hope for…. …maybe a hot air balloon… to place me up amongst the last carbon you exhaled…
Cassandra Jenkins & Suhail Yusuf Khan – Chale Jaana
and the next day, no less dead
Anna Butterss – Activities
We stop to watch the dance studio’s Revue under a tent On the soccer field Across from the church
Caitlin Rose – CAZIMI
Wiping my daughter’s stuffy nose Is like reaching back in time To wipe my own Like old grapes on a new vine Like new eyes on mashed potatoes
Franz Nicolay – New River
I wait in long lines for overpriced theater wine, but outside when we part, I’m certain any second the show’ll start
Pohgoh – du und ich
the burden of freedom is knowing we’ll have to try swing dancing again
Pony Camp – Pony Camp
wander until your hips horse me home at last
Jeremy Ray & the Howdy Men – Above the Wreckage
During the hurricane We did our dancing In a doorframe
Johanna Warren – Lessons for Mutants
There’s a fizz to the wine though I know it’s flat. My tongue’s usefulness cut in half.
Shannen Moser – The Sun Still Seems to Move
How many years of treading water with white knuckles in an ocean with a bomb in each wave
RL – Be True
You tell me you named your daughter Coraline because you love Tim Burton. Your ego is bound for a very peculiar death.
Stella Donnelly – Flood
Every day since 2020, Distance and no guarantees. Your breath is drifting up to me, A Lazarus of normalcy.
Tony Shhnow – Reflexions
We shush our dishwasher like librarians. In one of the infinite universes it may wake the baby. And God forbid that universe is ours.
Wrecking Crew – Sedale Threat
Select the play-by-play announcers of your life: Steve “Snapper” Jones and a sandhill crane.
Josienne Clarke – I Promised You Light
Facebook says my high-school crush is born-again exhausted, meanwhile I sleep in tongues
Florist – Florist
I’ll love you ’tilthe red storm of Jupiteris near enough to be named.
Flanger Magazine – After the Bend
Between moss strands in that finch nest is all that’s left of the syllabus I assigned myself.
football, etc. – Visions
need a rest from trying and failing to rest
Katie Bejsiuk – The Woman on the Moon
By the time you feel better I’m a wreck in your wake Trading hangovers like yawns
Perennial – In the Midnight Hour
We no longer refer to our hugs as trips to the gun show. Deferentially, we now feed each other’s 24-inch pythons.
Grace Ives – Janky Star
ashes to ashes, bit to bit — can’t skip death like a a hip-hop album skit
Cal Folger Day – Piece-dye
study the arc of that girl lifting off her toboggan, put yourself between her and a birch in a Rochester I could never visit
Ann Wilson – Fierce Bliss
A fear so stupid, shared by so few, but that casts such a long and deadly shadow — as if, say, all the people who’s favorite film is Farce of the Penguins had the right to smother my children’s children’s children and then pay senators to yell at me about it.
Rubén Blades con Bova Livre – Pasieros
Phil Ochs, grab your gun. Beware public funds for sports stadiums.
Joseph Huber – The Downtowner
Been bouncing around without walls somehow. I want a pit. I want it now.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
our final text just rests and my pulse takes the momentum of a lake
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Summer at Land’s End
Foot control minus will power, I lurch from under the carwash dryer, dewy from the cocoon.
Jeanines – Don’t Wait for a Sign
wind was leaking from the trees and salt was lifting off the seas I bit into a decent peach
joyride! – miracle question
There’s only one friend’s mom’s face I remember; the rest dissolve like Crystal Light in tap water
Deerscout – Woodpecker
none chose, some called to divorce splinter from thumb of daughter
Jess Scott – Modern Primitive
Stroller stuck in the pasture, baby’s first agrotourism.
Ex-Vöid – Bigger Than Before
I play WiiSports while you, drive home in the snow, waiting to dig you a parking spot.
Bodega – Broken Equipment
Will all the snot I ever wiped on my childhood sleeve reincarnate as crust in my daughter’s eye?
Townland – Honey on the Hi-Fi
I feel included like the many DIRECTV and Bose technicians my dad kept inviting over after installation.
Superchunk – Wild Loneliness
Play-Doh picks up a patio of pollen, so Youngest Cousin decamps to play bartender.
Surrounder – Structural Memory
Once, a house-sized gator peered into my room with its window-sized eye, and I got my dad to get his gun.
Lady Pills – What I Want
Fifteen minutes — one-fourth of one billable hour. And the longest I can stand without a look at you.
Erin Rae – Lighten Up
When I look at you — so many problems, whereas my W-2 — so many commas
The Sad Tomorrows – The Sad Tomorrows
This year I made a lumber stack and next I’ll make a lumber rack
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Good and Green Again
White sky bares the vulture flock Frost cloth shelters the strawberry crop
Molly Nilsson – Extreme
Frustrated in the beanbag chair. PS2 controller battles the wall and loses again.
Colleen – The Tunnel and the Clearing
Change the subject but the bachelor uncle is also an expert in that.
Jessica’s Brother – Just Rain
You got a message to me despite my Lisa Simpson avatar and inside joke handle.
Two White Cranes – When the Future Rolls Around (Selected Songs, 2012-2017)
one of us finally lived in a place with central heat, so we gathered with guitars and our pet Springsteen covers
Mega Bog – Life, and Another
there’s doom and there’s grocery store misters water-logging the cilantro like this was a beached whale rescue
Michael Hurley – The Time of the Foxgloves
Am I the ostrich chick under your dark dome or a pup at the foot of a blue agave at the mercy of the next careless weed whacker sweep?
Cla-ras – Five clusters
All the discarded fats clogging my pipes this winter once were loved.
Nathan Salsburg – Psalms
A whole clan raised in Rochester and only the middle brother claimed the father’s Pittsburgh accent
Brian Wilson – At My Piano
Slow bike ride in the rich neighborhood. Clouds above, restored Dart in the driveway.
Land of Talk – Calming Night Partner
Scan the treetops spot what’s probably a hawk and like a high school class or a hit movie cast who’s got the best ten years ahead — eyes, pine, or whatever that blob was?
Golden and Rust – Golden and Rust
In our private corridor between surf and dune, sand streamed against our shins like it was sick of not being a river.
Ada Lea – one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
bad mail all week, but my brother-in-law’s grilling burgers tonight
Gosh Diggity – Runaway Rocketboy
Quite the scandal, the first time I ordered falafel in front of your parents
Julia Shapiro – Zorked
Papa was an ant dangling from a cobweb; Mama was a white wall
Bad Bad Hats – Walkman
my namesake, the mold endemic to cars abandoned streetside all summer
The Ophelias – Crocus
After-dinner porch gin reconnects you and mosquitoes.
Tierney Tough – A Farce to Reckon With
Despite what my boots say, there are limits to my faith in the honky tonk.
The Beths – Auckland, New Zealand, 2020
Cream ale, amber ale — Rain undermines umbrella — Soon cool evenings.
Dirty Shrines – Digital Ego
Whiskey slime coats the remaining ice |__| a patience I can’t muster in myself
Sara Renberg – Butch Spring
At 32, I reached the axis of mastery and decay. But with no arena in which mastery to display, all I can practice alone is decay.
Olivia’s World – Tuff 2B Tender
Cross the street between bands for two slices for four dollars and to piss
Thalia Zedek Band – Perfect Vision
I check the stove I check the dryer I pray my cat would run from fire
Brandee Younger – Somewhere Different
these times link to the Controversy section of god’s Wikipedia
Partial Traces – Wild Surf/Quiet Blues
the one cousin we don’t usually get stoned with is now stoned with us
Laura Stevenson – Laura Stevenson
walk by the room again wonder when you’ll fix those shelves if you wonder at all
Footings – Annihilation
my dreams dulled after the one where we’re ferried ‘cross the tundra in vegetable-oil vans
Zach Barocas New Freedom Sound – Four Freedoms
Whether or not there’s more to come / thanks for the work you’ve already done
dolphin midwives – Body of Water
The Edict of Deerfield Beach coronated your hips and my slice of clam pizza
Izzy True – Our Beautiful Baby World
we were born in time to teethe on that week of good peaches that grow here
John Grant – Boy from Michigan
To nightclub in my town, return to the steakhouse where you had dinner
The Mysteries of Life – Blue Jay
Puffin of the rock Osprey in the transmission tower The abandoned study of timber in literature
Van Dyke Parks Orchestrates Verónica Valerio: Only in America
Papaver somniferum oilseed thereof folded into my gums forever
Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee
hard rain floods the duck pond, shores kissed by a potable god
UV-TV – Always Something
the pocks remain, but no more the pock-marked leading men
Chrissie Hynde – Standing in the Doorway
Surrender our damp, wooden wishes endless splendor never much thought *words from “Bob Dylan’s Dream” and “Changing of the Guard” by Bob Dylan
Juliana Hatfield – Blood
it’s not the wasp’s fault that I also live here and have inherited better poison
Fiver – Fiver with the Atlantic School Of Spontaneous Composition
I tip the pregnant bartender with silver dollars; she grimaces
Rosie Tucker – Sucker Supreme
I crash into the king Pillow between us like surf Into a sea wall
Remember Sports – Like a Stone
Never made friends so I never knew a dealer so I never smoked alone and walked its streets so did I ever even live those years in that city?
Norah Jones – ‘Til We Meet Again
coaxed a condo from the clay; long day and my dogs are chirping
Merry Clayton – Beautiful Scars
maybe matter cannot be destroyed_________________but what ______________does that matter?
Biitchseat – I’ll become kind.
mistake the sun for golden fog Disney ‘n’ Amazon take turns as underdog
Esther Rose – How Many Times
Clorox spinach can of wine / Another week of not yet the last time
Scott Reynolds – Chihuahua in Buffalo
Bossa nova overhead, Jaws on TV, I’m at the bar and know nobody
Closer – Within One Stem
swallows rise from brush to branch like opposite rain
Adult Mom – Driver
How many more R.E.M covers before you’ll want to kiss me? Will the next one make me look like the boys you like — all veins and ribcage?
Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember
tie me to an office chair and launch me down the bike path like you used to
Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
Dredging eggplant makes me think of my mom thinking about her aunt
Calyx – Stay Gone
Feel old yet? These punks from the all-ages shows can now today get into regular shows.
The Weather Station – Ignorance
A fistful of roots held the dune since Avilés. My fascia felled by a desk chair.
Yasmin Williams – Urban Driftwood
when Moses of the Sawgrass sang gatorsong in deertongue
Palberta – Palberta5000
we spiked our Starbucks and busked outside the Barnes & Noble; and we were alternative
Thank You Thank You – Next to Nothing
Coconut adrift so long it turned barnacle boat
Sweeping Promises – Hunger for a Way Out
Open pool, lone baby Polish Jew, 1943 Disaster and proximity
New Boy – Blue Maze
Some noise amplifies silence. Owlcall, your footsteps.
awakebutstillinbed – stay who you are
squat at the gate listen to the congress of cranes at the treeline
Special Moves – “Little Help”
We chew silently on the osso buco I started too late.
Ronee Blakley – Atom Bomb Baby
If the sun should rise over just one Virginia, I’ll request “Freebird” of Gabriel.
Shormey – God Bless Bob Ross
same flannel adorns the first kid the bus eats each morning all winter
Cinder Well – No Summer
bloodless fingertips no spin on the ball empty court, Anchorage
Ivy Sole – South Paw
last time I saw a city, I was cranky in a tight button-down
Radisson Blue – Assemblage
beside the boardwalk feral piglets obscured by wild fennel
Momma – Two of Me
I set fire to my used tissues, godding (“to god,” transitive verb) smoldering spineless cranes
Austin Lucas – Alive in the Hot Zone
Signs on county road lawns and in financial district windows realize the horror Halloween suggests.
Laura Veirs – My Echo
Bare walls again. We’ve hung larger frames with lesser nails.
Jennifer Castle – Monarch Season
the puddle grows at the end of the driveway equal parts carsoap and marchfly
Jon Snodgrass – Tace
I can play silence in the key of flame crashing into wick.
Seth Bogart – Men on the Verge of Nothing
The arc of the moral universe is dripping down my chin.
Lydia Loveless – Daughter
I’m blind to ends. A barber snipping air. A grillmaster flipping smoke.
Horsewhip – Laid to Waste
stranded clouds and the cricket static signal the summer shorting-out
Emma Kupa – It Will Come Easier
Oh, carpentered heart, full of Müller-Lyer arrows and Cupid splinters.
Sam Prekop – Comma
Batteries pass between Walkman and Gameboy. Report suspicious baggage.
Mike Huguenor – X’ED
My computer counts its own bytes. I guess it’s honest with itself.
Oceanator – Things I Never Said
Why, when I wish us well, does it sound like I’m speaking of houseplants?
Old 97’s – Twelfth
something in the air chases cattle ‘neath the elm
Data – Data 2020
I wish I had taught the algorithm better. Now it teaches me.
Mary Chapin Carpenter – The Dirt and the Stars
And yet we accumulate elders. High humidity, no rain.