“Grammatically Incorrect” | Blaine Babbidge
I have a mouth that speaks They/Them, but a body that screams She/Her My throat is burned with the ashesContinue Reading
Category: Literature
Skeleton Key | Terence McCaffrey
You sit on my sill in the sun and the dusk and the blue afternoon shade like any other key,Continue Reading
Aqua Corpus | John Muro
Air’s frosted and silvered by salt and the winter Sky’s so impossibly blue one could be forgiven For thinking allContinue Reading
Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize – 2021
The Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize is sponsored by the English Department at CCSU. It was created by former English professorContinue Reading
In the Woods That Night | Julia Wnuk
I learned of your death mere moments after being ripped from a deep slumber. In that delirious half-awareness, I attemptedContinue Reading
Pitter-Patter | Jazer Lockhart
Pitter-Patter Pitter-Patter Pitter-Patter Pitter-Patter Denise loves rainy nights like this one, especially since it’s pouring. She likes to sit downContinue Reading
Letter to a Stranger: To the Drag Queen who Danced with me in New York | Samantha Whitehill
I scared myself out of the original outfit I’d chosen for Pride; the skin-tight, rainbow tie-dyed crop top and matchingContinue Reading
The Addict | Michael Irace
Chester Middleton III had everything lined up perfectly. He was to attend his first year of Harvard Law School inContinue Reading
Circling an Open Casket | Genevieve Jaser
Blue Muse · Circling An Open Casket i.For 40 daysafter your death I thought about the motion of your chest. LetContinue Reading
The Mainland | Janay Wynter
I remember the day we left home nearly five years ago, when mama thought there would be lots of workContinue Reading
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