The Golden Corral, Golden Corral, Golden Corral, Corral, Corral…
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3 poems by Poppy Cockburn
3 poems by Poppy Cockburn Poppy Cockburn is a writer based in Margate, UK, where she runs the literary event series ‘Is it Dirty?’ Her debut poetry collection, Naked Oyster, was published by If a Leaf Falls Press in 2025 and a second collection is forthcoming later in 2026. She has a cat.
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Billy Luck
DC Diamondopolous is an award-winning short story, and flash fiction author with hundreds of stories published internationally in print, online magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. DC’s stories have appeared in: Amazing Stories, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Lunch Ticket, Broadkill Review, Zoetic Press, and others. DC has two published collections…
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3 poems by Garth Martens
Garth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project, Poetry Ireland, Hazlitt, This Magazine, Vallum, Fiddlehead,…
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Christy or Sarah or Alice
Lee Tyler Williams has published a novel, Leechdom (New Plains, 2015), a novella, Let It Be Our Ruin (Arc Pair, 2020), and many stories in magazines, some of which were nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Wigleaf Top 50. His story, “Scorpion Season” was the winner of our second T Paulo Urcanse Prize for…
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A poem by Stephen Guy Mallett
The Dandelions at Goloring Ditch They’re quick-witted, iff haptic aptitude is the term for that mantic faculty where ru- minants leave the taproot intact during the dog days. It is when the summers snow. And what fair dehiscence, the suer to which the facile is apropos. Made more fissile than shoulders of the Muliphein is…
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3 poems by Christopher Law
Christopher Law is a writer living in Glasgow, Scotland. His critical writing has appeared in MAP magazine and Counterflows on Paper. His academic writing has appeared in journals including liquid blackness, Postmodern Culture and Modern Language Notes.
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A poem by Sheridan Wilbur
Integration Machine Do you want to walk with me? Until the lips of a stranger, a first kiss, a silent death is all the same. If not the famine. If not the war. Middle class forever. Is he the one? Dad, you don’t even know his name. Ordered the vegetarian Moroccan soothsayer off the menu.…
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3 Poems by Evan Thomas
Evan Thomas is a poet who lives and works in southern Ohio. His first full-length collection, Strangers, won the Prize Americana for Poetry in 2024 and was published in the spring of 2025.
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The Child Cyclops
by Madeline Crawford Polly lived with her mother and father in a white columned home near the main street of their small town. She was permitted to walk by herself to pick up candy from the shop. Her parents, both osteopaths, would drive to their shared practice after dropping Polly off at the local elementary…
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Bill Fay and the End of History
Owen Avery lives in Brooklyn. He enjoys words and images. He has been published in Hobart Pulp, Stimulant Mag, Scaffold Lit, and other online worlds. He can be found on Instagram dot com under the name tubofguts.
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Poems by Lish Ciambrone
10. There in the morning see Your death cresting The hilltops Over trees whose buds were just beginning To imagine breath Am I to mourn this? Your death As promised to me as dreams Your death touches what the light touches And illuminates my life.Condition Coming by Nothing in earnest curiosity Possessing no cavity but…
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The T Paulo Urcanse Foundation Presents: He Thought His Heart Would Fail… Like His Father’s
The T Paulo Urcanse Foundation Presents: “He Thought His Heart Would Fail… Like His Father’s” by by Herakles Odussomai… the winner of our 3rd annual T Paulo Urcanse Prize for Literary Excellence!
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Presented by the T Paulo Urcanse Foundation: “Dancing Legs Out of View (For Susie)” by Joseph Eastburn
Joseph Eastburn is the author of 10 plays and seven screenplays. His essays, short stories and poems have appeared in The Cellar Door, Journal 31, Reed Magazine, Sliver of Stone, Slow Trains, The Tower Journal, Alabama Literary Review, Adelaide, Crack the Spine, The Sand Hill Review, Existere, Forge, Hobo Pancakes, storySouth, The Penmen Review, Shark Reef,…
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Presented by the T Paulo Urcanse Foundation: Simone Martel’s Private Property
T Paulo Urcanse Foundation Presents: “Private Property” by Simone Martel… Simone Martel is the author of a novel, A Cat Came Back, a memoir, The Expectant Gardener, and a story collection, Exile’s Garden. Simone was born in Oakland, CA. After studying English at U.C. Berkeley, she created and operated an organic tomato farm in the Central Valley. She’s…
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Presented by the T Paulo Urcanse Foundation: The Hunter by Gabriela Gorgas
The T Paulo Urcanse Foundation Presents: The Hunter by Gabriela Gorgas! Gabriela Gorgas is a writer from Ohio whose work has appeared in The End , Muumuu House, and Default Blog. She can also be found on Instagram @gabriela.gorgas and on Substack at gabrielagorgas.substack.com.
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Presented by the T Paulo Urcanse Foundation: Lucas Restivo
***Lucas Restivo is our first winner of the third annual T Paulo Urcanse Prize for Literary Excellence. We will be rolling out the winners every weekend for the next couple of weeks and then return to our irregular scheduled programming.***
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2 Poems by Carson Jordan
Carson Jordan is a woman on the mountain. She is the teacher and facilitator of MIND PALACE POETRY and the Poet in Residence at the Ruth Stone House. Her chapbook GOOD FOR HER was published with Dirt Child Press in 2022. You can find her work in Bruiser Mag, The Quarterless Review, Peach Mag, Noir…
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4 poems by Corey Qureshi
COREY QURESHI IS A WRITER BASED IN PHILADELPHIA. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF SEVERAL CHAPBOOKS OF POETRY, MOST RECENTLY you are bereft IN OCTOBER 2025. HE RUNS THE WEBSITE / READING SERIES BOXX PRESS. @q_boxo
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Poems by Leah Marie Johnson
Leah Marie Johnson is a poet and writer living in and about California. She wants you to be emotional, for obvious reasons. Most of her work can be found somewhere on the internet, and you can reach her on her socials, God willing…
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1 Poem by S. Taufeequddin Azher
Today on High Horse: 1 Poem by S. Taufeequddin Azher
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1 poem by Steve Bannon
Steve Bannon is a poet, political strategist and media executive who served as an advisor to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and as Chief White House Strategist. His career includes time in the U.S. Navy, investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and a significant role in media and film, notably co-founding the conservative news site Breitbart…
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More Poems by Colin Gee
Today on High Horse: More Poems by the Great Colin Gee
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Poems by Piper McKeever
Sunday Blues Cowboy, don’t call me on the way to church, praying for poetry. I am not a Sunday girl,I don’t come dated for expiry. Move on out to Montana, like you always said you’d do. Find yourself a woman you can tame.Find yourself a woman who won’t leave. You were always so faithless, telling…
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A Poem by Ginger Jones
Swan Lake White lilies and dopamine. I wanted to live this kind of life with you, Well liked and breathing deeply, Touching a sensation in the room. It’s blooming and smells like Gardenias tapping at the window. Under a gentle moon, You can rest inside me. Lead by a light I have never known To…
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Poems by Austin Miles
Nebraska, 2025 by Madeline Rupard Sacred screen doora cold windvisitsfor a week or soclouds greet me@ my doorstepi look upThe economics of painI’m a frenetic – reaching for /waiting for a silverwarevarious parking lots appeal to me butesp. the immaculatestrip mall oneswith a sun settin into thema criminalized ecologyprolific / jaunted the lot its emptiness…
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