These pieces need no introduction, except that they’ll rip your organs out.
1. Lauren Milici – “Two Poems” (Yes Poetry)
2. Alexis Groulx- “My Body Dysmorphia” (Luna Luna Magazine)
3. Sarah Jordan – “Our Father Dave” (Cosmonauts Avenue)
4. Nathan McClain – “Against Melancholy” (Tinderbox Poetry)
5. Nadia Alexis – “How to Be Friends With a Sex Worker” (Tinderbox Poetry)
6. Isabel Sobral Campos – “Three Poems” (Typo Magazine)
7. Maggie Queeney – “Love Wildered/Re-Wilding” (Typo Magazine)
8. Sean H. Doyle – “Hallucinatorium” (Storychord)
9. Juliet Escoria – “Five Poems” (Fanzine)
10. Isobel O’Hare – “Rhiannon” (Entropy)
11. Hannah Cohen – “Self-Portrait as Grendel” (Calamus Journal)
12. Sonya Vatomsky – “It’s Time for Goth Culture to Embrace the Gender Identities of All Its Members” (Slate)
13. Meredith Talusan – “Why Can’t My Famous Gender Nonconforming Friends Get Laid?” (VICE)
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (ELJ Publications, 2016), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). She received her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of her writing has appeared in Prelude, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, Pouch, and elsewhere. She also teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets.