Fresh-Cut Lit & More POETRY Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue. [ABUELITA PLANTING JARS AT BASE IN RATTLING CANE,] by Christopher David Rosales December 16, 2024 DUPLEX, by Elly Katz December 16, 2024 2023.32, by Bradley J. Fest December 16, 2024 LITTLE ODE TO TAKING THE DOG OUT, by John Minczeski December 16, 2024 TRUE NORTH, by Herman Beavers December 16, 2024 AI, THE END, by Anders Howerton December 16, 2024 SUMMONED TO PERFORM AT ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT by Holaday Mason September 22, 2024 WAG by Magda Andrews-Hoke September 22, 2024 APOLOGY & NEW CAREER IN FLOWERS by Jane Feinsod September 22, 2024 BEDSIDE by Victoria Korth June 24, 2024 BODY DOUBLE by Autumn H. Thomas June 24, 2024 WHAT USED TO BE MCCARRAN AIRPORT, LAS VEGAS by J.D. Isip June 24, 2024 TWO POEMS by Brooke Harries June 24, 2024 WHERE HAS AMELIA GONE WHERE HAS SHE BEEN by Kindall Fredricks June 24, 2024 FAIRY SHRIMP by Richard Parisio March 25, 2024 LIGERTOWN: HERALDIC ATTITUDE by Susan Goslee March 25, 2024 AQUACULTURE QUARTET by Jess Yuan March 25, 2024 THEY ARE CALLING YOU AND THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE SAYING by Michael Grinthal March 25, 2024 SOMETIMES WE SPEAK TO OURSELVES by Peter Grandbois March 25, 2024 QUESTION 1: HOW WILL YOU BECOME YOUR MOTHER by Sofia Sears March 25, 2024 HOSPICE INTAKE by Luke Koesters March 25, 2024 ANNIVERSARY POEM II by Matt Thomas December 26, 2023 I MISSED ANOTHER DEADLINE BUT IT’S OKAY IT’S REALLY OKAY by Erin Mizrahi December 26, 2023 EVERYWHERE THE WORLD IS GREEN AND DYING by Todd Robinson December 26, 2023 MANGER, EMPTIED by Michelle Bitting December 26, 2023 GERMANTOWN AVENUE SPEAKS by Yolanda Wisher December 26, 2023 DRINK, ANYWAY, THE LIGHT by Ginger Ayla December 26, 2023 TRANSNESS AS PERPETUAL PAPERBOY by Gideon Huan-Lang December 26, 2023 IMMUNOTHERAPY by Eileen Toomey September 28, 2023 LOCKDOWN, a pantoum by Penny Johnson September 28, 2023 MUSIC TO DROWN BY, a shape poem by Maya Salameh September 28, 2023 OCD SONNET #3 by Zachariah Claypole White September 28, 2023 PARTHENOGENESIS by Clara Bush Vadala September 28, 2023 grindr villanelle by Matt Broomfield September 28, 2023 ENGAGEMENT CORONA by Jeff Pearson September 28, 2023 FIVE STRETCHED SAPPHICS by Weijia Pan September 28, 2023 GORGON SON by Geoffrey Billetter September 28, 2023 CONTAINMENT FAILURE by Ky Lohrenz June 29, 2023 IT NEVER SEEMED WRONG TO LOVE YOU, IT’S JUST THAT WE WERE HERONS by Lynn Finger June 28, 2023 COLLOQUY OF YOUNG MOTHERS ON VENANGO STREET by Leonard Kress June 28, 2023 AMONG THE WRECKAGE by Laura Ruby June 28, 2023 JUNIPER POPLAR by Grayson Thompson June 28, 2023 MESENTERIC PANNICULITIS AT NINE MONTHS by Robin Kinzer March 29, 2023 PISSER CLAM by Yujia Li March 29, 2023 CREATION MYTH WITH CHORUS OF WORMS IN MY BRAIN by Jordan Ranft March 29, 2023 TWO POEMS by Nathan Lipps March 29, 2023 THE SHAPE OF A FOG by Kevin Eguizabal March 29, 2023 FOR PHIL by Michelle Bitting September 26, 2022 O by Varun Shetty September 26, 2022 SHOOTING BUCK by Lydia Downey September 26, 2022 THAW by John Schneider September 26, 2022 A LETTER FROM MY FATHER TO ME by Mimi Yang June 24, 2022 POP SONG by Matt Thomas June 24, 2022 TWO POEMS by Sadie Shorr-Parks June 24, 2022 TWO POEMS by Mitchell Untch June 24, 2022 MEMORY REMAINS AS SKELETON by Mateo Perez Lara June 24, 2022 a rust chewed pipe by Alex Wells Shapiro June 24, 2022 A POEM WHEREIN I TRY, AND FAIL, TO IDENTIFY MY TUESDAY GENDER by Quinn Rennerfeldt March 25, 2022 LEAVE NO TRACE by Robin Neidorf March 25, 2022 DON’T KICK THE DOG by Philip Schaefer March 25, 2022 EVEN THE DOGS by Ronda Broatch March 25, 2022 BREAKFAST SOLILOQUY by William Erickson March 25, 2022 From KENNINGS, Visual Erasures by Katrina Roberts December 20, 2021 REGENERATION by Brenda Taulbee December 20, 2021 SHOW TUNES by Julie Benesh December 20, 2021 I AM LOSING MY HANDS. by Kelley White December 20, 2021 TEENAGE ASTRONOMY by Karin Wraley Barbee December 20, 2021 BEND AND TOUCH THE GRASS by Peter Grandbois December 20, 2021 THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW by Maddie Baxter December 20, 2021 MONOCULAR by Tingyu Liu September 23, 2021 SILVER FALLS by Melody Wilson September 23, 2021 BIOLUMINESCENCE by Sara Mae September 23, 2021 SURVIVOR GUILT by Melody Wilson September 23, 2021 FLOUNDER by Tom Laichas September 23, 2021 flats by Danny Cooper September 23, 2021 manic / depressive by Savannah Slone June 29, 2021 NITS by Marsha Blitzer June 29, 2021 Shelter by Esther Ra June 29, 2021 SMALL CONSOLATION by Diana Rickard June 29, 2021 PAPER MACHE ON THE DRAIN by Soheon Rhee June 29, 2021 AT A CAFÉ IN VICTORIA, BC TWO GREY-HAIRED MEN TALK ABOUT LOVE by Kate Peterson March 29, 2021 LAST GESTURE by James Miller March 29, 2021 LITTLE GRIEF SONG, JULY 2020 by Laura Tanenbaum March 29, 2021 I AM THAT GROUP OF PICTURES OF SPIDERWEBS MADE BY SPIDERS ON DIFFERENT DRUGS by Valerie Loveland March 29, 2021 AMMONITES by Ann de Forest March 29, 2021 BEING WHOLE AFTER A DIAGNOSIS by Anthony Aguero December 17, 2020 THE SECOND STEP by Meggie Royer December 17, 2020 AS TRANSPARENT AS IT GETS by Heikki Huotari December 17, 2020 DISSECTION by Amy Beth Sisson December 17, 2020 HAVANA, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 2020 by Peter Wear December 17, 2020 WHERE I WAIT FOR YOU By travis tate December 17, 2020 SPEAKING OF SUNFLOWERS by Evan Anders September 29, 2020 MY LOVER STARTS SEEING by Chi Siegel September 29, 2020 THE PRICE OF HANDS by Brian Ellis September 29, 2020 THE ESPERANZA PROJECT: A Collaboration of Sound and Words by Richard Casimir & Herman Beavers September 29, 2020 FIELD NOTES FOR THE MAGICIAN: SLEIGHT OF HAND by Rosemary Kitchen September 29, 2020 EIDOLON by Nicole Greaves September 29, 2020 TWO POEMS by Jaewon Chang June 29, 2020 SOULS FALLING INTO HELL LIKE SNOWFLAKES by Roy Bentley June 29, 2020 THE WOMAN IN THE DREAM by Mirande Bissell June 29, 2020 WALKING THROUGH THE UNDERWORLD by Stella Hayes June 29, 2020 TWO POEMS by Juheon Rhee March 29, 2020 BLESSING ONE: BLESS ME by Sherine Elise Gilmour March 29, 2020 AUTUMN’S RECKONING by John Middlebrook March 29, 2020 SORRY TO BE LATE by Marc Harshman March 29, 2020 AUTO CORRECTED by Jackie Craven March 29, 2020 STARRY NIGHT CREDIT CARD by J Pascutazz March 29, 2020 IN SOME ALIEN PRAIRIE by Alice Hall December 29, 2019 TWO POEMS by Jeremy Radin December 29, 2019 FIELD WORK by Nathan Lipps December 29, 2019 AMOR FATI by Tina Barr September 16, 2019 WESTERN SPADEFOOT by Michael Rerick September 16, 2019 LAST SUMMER AT SUMMERLAND by Dana Fang September 16, 2019 SILO by Meggie Royer September 16, 2019 DEAR CITY by Poul Lynggaard Damgaard September 16, 2019 PSYCHOLOGY OF THE UNEXPECTED, WITH FRIENDS by Peter Leight September 16, 2019 AQUIFER by Thomas Cook September 16, 2019 HOW IT IS by Alison Hicks September 16, 2019 BISCUIT POEM by Sophia Friis September 16, 2019 BESIDES YOURSELF by Jean-Mark Sens September 16, 2019 TWO POEMS by Andrew Hamilton September 16, 2019 SONNET FOR ALEXANDRIA by Benjamin Renne September 16, 2019 FORCE: 2nd GRADE by Jessica Cuello June 3, 2019 THE ANT LIEUTENANT TELLS ME OF HIS RETURN by David Callan June 3, 2019 I MET MY LONG LOST BROTHER FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST YEAR. by Dyllan Moran June 3, 2019 ORIGINATING WORLDS by Robert Lietz June 3, 2019 DELTA 29: EVERY LEVEL A LINE, EVERY LINE A FISHERMAN’S NET BAG OF NO LONGERS. by David Koehn June 3, 2019 ON THE MYSTERIOUS NOISE OUT OF VIEW OF THE BEDROOM WINDOW by Anne Price June 3, 2019 A CHAMELEON IS A LIZARD IS A CONSTELLATION IS AN INCONSTANT PERSON by Lauren Jacquish June 3, 2019 VALENTINE’S (EMILY II) by Sophie Herron June 3, 2019 MASTER by Simon Shieh June 3, 2019 BAYOU by Kathryn V. Jacopi June 3, 2019 TWO POEMS by Michelle Dominique Burk June 3, 2019 ROSE by Anne Garwig June 3, 2019 CORPORATE CLIFF by Lauren Bender March 27, 2019 THE DAMAGE IS THE TRUTH by Roy White March 27, 2019 THE ORDINARY IS WORTH INVESTIGATION by Catherine Chen March 27, 2019 Two Poems by Will Stanier March 27, 2019 TWO POEMS by Simon Perchik March 27, 2019 FRESCO by Joan Larkin March 27, 2019 CHAPTER ONE: METHODS OF THE INNOCENT by Phoebe Reeves March 27, 2019 ZOË by Brigit Andersson March 27, 2019 GAMELAN by Allison Hummel March 27, 2019 INSTEAD by Glenn Ingersoll March 27, 2019 heat wave by mud howard March 27, 2019 TWO POEMS by Barbara Daniels March 27, 2019 LINES ON THE WAY TO A MARCH by Dan Kraines March 27, 2019 PAX ROMANA by Christopher Blackman December 4, 2018 LIBERTY/LIBERTY by Leia Darwish December 4, 2018 STONEHENGE by Erik Fuhrer December 4, 2018 the juvenile connection by Kathleen Hellen December 4, 2018 THREE POEMS by James Grinwis December 4, 2018 TERMS AND CONDITIONS by Heather Holmes December 4, 2018 THE TOWER IN OUR CITY by Peter Leight December 4, 2018 CYANOTYPE by Michelle Matthees December 4, 2018 WITH EACH PASSING DAY, THE MORE by D.R. Shipp December 4, 2018 THE GRAVE YOUR AMBITION DIGS FOR ITSELF by Gabriel Welsch December 4, 2018 PLURISY by Joseph Harms September 5, 2018 THE REST by Kimberly Grabowski Strayer September 5, 2018 CARTE BLANCHE by Maya Owen September 5, 2018 IN NEED OF A SHOWER by Thomas Osatchoff September 5, 2018 REMEDY by Jen Rouse September 5, 2018 THREE POEMS by Darren C. Demaree September 5, 2018 AUTOMATON AUBADE by Cynthia Atkins September 5, 2018 VIDEO ALTARPIECE (3) by Judson Evans September 5, 2018 QUESTIONS OF CURRENT ATMOSPHERE by Caroline J. Davidson September 5, 2018 PERPETUAL WONDERMENT by Alexis Petri September 5, 2018 THE FEMMINIELLO by Joy Belonger September 5, 2018 GIANT POSSUM DRAWS CROWD IN NICETOWN by Khaleel Gheba September 5, 2018 NOVEMBER, THE REALIST by James McKee September 5, 2018 variation 32 by Doug Bolling September 5, 2018 where we come from by Patricia Hartland September 5, 2018 PENIS ENVY by Susan Celia Greenfield September 5, 2018 ANATOMY OF A MONARCA by Antonio Lopez August 8, 2018 CHORUS by Mary Lou Buschi June 6, 2018 [A BLOCKED VALVE FACILITATES PRAYER. A BLOCKED AIRWAY INSPIRES A] by Levi Andalou June 6, 2018 THOSE STRIKING SHADES I :: THE MAGICIAN. by Cait Weiss Orcutt June 6, 2018 THE HIGH ROAD TO TIFFIN by Jake Montgomery June 6, 2018 THE SECOND MOTION by Elaine Cannell June 6, 2018 TO EACH HER OWN by Natalie Kawam June 6, 2018 LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS by Jonathan Louis Duckworth June 6, 2018 EXECUTION by Hussain Ahmed June 6, 2018 [IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BANJO –THIS CHAIR] by Simon Perchik June 6, 2018 THE RELIC ROOM by William Wells June 6, 2018 THE DAY AFTER BRAHMA OPENED ONE EYE by Nicole Burney March 22, 2018 SUNSPOTS by Julia Leverone March 22, 2018 PATCHES from Variable Cycles by Robert Lietz March 22, 2018 TRAIN FOR GLORY by Roy Bentley March 22, 2018 THE CHILDREN by John Sibley Williams March 22, 2018 MORALITY PLAY by Nandini Dhar March 22, 2018 SUDDENLY by Mary Crow March 22, 2018 WHAT MATTERS IS OUR HANDS by Mars Hu March 22, 2018 gravy strain by Davy Knittle March 22, 2018 THE MORNING AFTER ANOTHER COMING-OF-AGE FILM by Daryl Sznyter March 22, 2018 UNDERSONG by Martha Zweig March 22, 2018 COLONIZING THE WORLD by Cliff Saunders March 22, 2018 1968 by Matt Muth March 22, 2018 TWO POEMS by Lee Sennish March 22, 2018 MIXED MEDIUM ART by Stuti Pachisia March 22, 2018 CAMPAIGN PROMISES, a poem by Ann Babson, featured on Life As Activism January 15, 2018 FOUR POEMS by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, featured on Life As Activism January 8, 2018 PERFUSIONIST by Kelsey Ann Kerr December 15, 2017 NAMING NAMES by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens December 15, 2017 *GABRIEL* by Paul Siegell December 15, 2017 KEVLAR ON OUR BACKS by Matthew Schmidt December 15, 2017 TWO POEMS by Maura Way December 15, 2017 TOCK TANK by Tina Barr December 15, 2017 TWO POEMS by Brendan Lorber December 15, 2017 SEOUL IN OCTOBER by Soleil David December 15, 2017 RESISTORS by Amy Miller December 15, 2017 THE RATION OF INDEPENDENCE by Michael T. Young December 15, 2017 STEREOCARDS: Doubles by Kyra Simone December 15, 2017 VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL by Michelle Brooks December 15, 2017 TWO POEMS by C. John Graham December 15, 2017 BEASTLY by Erin Slaughter December 15, 2017 TOUCAN by Mag Gabbert December 15, 2017 STILL LIFE WITH GIN, FALCON, SECRET by Ed Taylor September 15, 2017 ABOUT NOW by Bruce McRae September 15, 2017 [THE COYOTES ARE JUDGING ME] by Nina Murray September 15, 2017 TWO POEMS by Jaimie Gusman September 15, 2017 MONDAY MORNING by Babo Kamel September 15, 2017 ALL THE DOORS ARE HUMMING by Lucy Anderton September 15, 2017 A BLACK OPUS by Penney Knightly September 15, 2017 BrOkEn GhAzAl fOr AfRiKa by Bola Opaleke September 15, 2017 COUNTRY FUNERAL by D. G. Geis September 15, 2017 MY CHILDREN BUILD “EVERYBODY’S DREAM LAND” (“Anybody Would Like to Live Here”) by Maya Jewell Zeller September 15, 2017 PUGET’S CHILDREN by Jenny Montgomery September 15, 2017 THE SUBMERGED MIND (Report by Turkish Naval Intelligence: Primitive Twentieth Century Code) by Michael Dennison September 15, 2017 BULLY NOTES by Jack Israel September 15, 2017 REMAINS by Callista Buchen September 15, 2017 AFTER by Alexandra Smyth September 15, 2017 THE PIETA, a poem by Samuel Son, Featured on Life As Activism July 6, 2017 YOUNG WARRIOR ON HORSEBACK, a poem by Kaitlin LaMoine Martin, featured on Life As Activism June 14, 2017 TWO POEMS by Leonard Gontarek, featured on Life As Activism June 12, 2017 THE DAY A LITTLE GLOOMY, SKY by J.C. Todd June 7, 2017 YOU’RE ALWAYS IN MY HAIR by E. Kristin Anderson June 7, 2017 THE SPECTRUM by Merridawn Duckler June 7, 2017 BLACK CHAMELEON, ORANGE DOG, YELLOW LIGHTNING by Max Sheppard June 7, 2017 CLEARING by mud howard June 7, 2017 MARE TRANQUILLITATIS by Walter Bargen June 7, 2017 BEGINNING by Shinjini Bhattacharjee June 7, 2017 GREEN by Tina Barr June 7, 2017 AS IF IT ACTUALLY LOOKED THAT BLUE. by Gary Lundy June 7, 2017 ALOHA by Sean Flood June 7, 2017 [ITS SHADOW IS HELPLESS HERE] by Simon Perchik June 7, 2017 JEROME IN THE WILDERNESS by Martha McCollough June 7, 2017 BOTTOM FEEDER by Dylan Krieger June 7, 2017 NOVEMBER NIGHTMARE by Valerie Fox June 7, 2017 TWO POEMS by Aaron Simm, Featured on Life As Activism May 23, 2017 ASK JUNE: Dating the Milk Man and June’s Top 10 Poems April 30, 2017 TWO POEMS by Marcia Roberts March 22, 2017 LETTER TO A POET by Jeanne Murray Walker March 22, 2017 HYDROQUINONE by Sean Flood March 22, 2017 AUGUST VIII by Katy Kim March 22, 2017 ON HOLD: by Elizabeth Morton March 22, 2017 DESCRIBE TO ME YOUR INITIAL REACTION WHEN YOU GOT HERE by Kristen Brida March 22, 2017 APRIL, TAYLOR HOLLOW by Brenda Butka March 22, 2017 TIGER-BOY by C. Wade Bentley March 22, 2017 FLORIDA MAN by Tyler Gillespie March 22, 2017 UNFINISHED by Peter Grandbois March 22, 2017 FUTURE ECOLOGIES by Madeleine Wattenbarger March 22, 2017 DARK, DARKER by Jeevika Verma March 22, 2017 ESSAY ON TAKING TOO MUCH ADVIL P.M. by Preston Eagan March 22, 2017 WOOD LOT IN APRIL by Michele Leavitt March 22, 2017 TWO POEMS by Flower Conroy March 22, 2017 NOVEMBER 2016, a poem by Lynn Levin, Featured on Life As Activism March 20, 2017 WINDOW SEAT, a poem by Molly McGinnis, Featured on Life As Activism March 18, 2017 TWO POEMS by Gemelle John, featured on Life As Activism January 31, 2017 VOTE TRUMP CHALKED ON A WALL IN MY RUSTBELT CITY, a poem by Freesia McKee, featured on Life As Activism January 23, 2017 AND SOMEHOW THE MAN ON CNN IS ASKING IF JEWS ARE PEOPLE, a poem by A.K., featured on Life As Activism January 20, 2017 TWO POEMS by Jeanne Obbard, featured on Life As Activism January 20, 2017
I AM THAT GROUP OF PICTURES OF SPIDERWEBS MADE BY SPIDERS ON DIFFERENT DRUGS by Valerie Loveland March 29, 2021
THE ESPERANZA PROJECT: A Collaboration of Sound and Words by Richard Casimir & Herman Beavers September 29, 2020
DELTA 29: EVERY LEVEL A LINE, EVERY LINE A FISHERMAN’S NET BAG OF NO LONGERS. by David Koehn June 3, 2019
MY CHILDREN BUILD “EVERYBODY’S DREAM LAND” (“Anybody Would Like to Live Here”) by Maya Jewell Zeller September 15, 2017
THE SUBMERGED MIND (Report by Turkish Naval Intelligence: Primitive Twentieth Century Code) by Michael Dennison September 15, 2017
YOUNG WARRIOR ON HORSEBACK, a poem by Kaitlin LaMoine Martin, featured on Life As Activism June 14, 2017
VOTE TRUMP CHALKED ON A WALL IN MY RUSTBELT CITY, a poem by Freesia McKee, featured on Life As Activism January 23, 2017
AND SOMEHOW THE MAN ON CNN IS ASKING IF JEWS ARE PEOPLE, a poem by A.K., featured on Life As Activism January 20, 2017