October Love - Aliyah Cotton
Aliyah Cotton is a queer poet of color from the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her...
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Defunkt Magazine
- May 9
- 1 min
An Open Letter to Dr. Frankenstein and Company
By Carson Sandell bluestone flesh stitched alive, mullers enameled in mica, he watches you dance on the concept of death with a stare...
Defunkt Magazine
- May 9
- 1 min
CONFESSION
By Caitlyn Alario my abuser too could inhabit my mind. sometimes it felt we shared it together, my grey matter containing those secrets i...
Defunkt Magazine
- May 8
- 1 min
LONG AGO
By Ellen Zhang Sometimes, my head fits perfectly between the curves of my mother’s chest. Echoing are the beats of longing. I picture my...
Defunkt Magazine
- May 8
- 2 min
Mary Ball Washington
By Candria Slamin For the students of University of Mary Washington’s 2014 Student Transition Program Mary, do you remember when us...
Defunkt Magazine
- May 8
- 2 min
The day I went cold turkey on smoking
By Gretchen Filart My daughter quipped, You have been saying that since last year. Capitalism enslaved me while washing its hands off...
Defunkt Magazine
- May 8
- 1 min
To the Girl Who Just Found a Lump
By Sascha Cohen Wear all your favorite perfumes now: your Serge Lutens and your Frederic Malle Soon you’ll smell just like the hospital...
Defunkt Magazine
- Dec 6, 2022
- 2 min
Baptize (verb)
By Kirsten Reneau To administer a baptism Ex: She baptizes herself during the summer, after she is left behind by a man she believed to...
Defunkt Magazine
- Dec 6, 2022
- 1 min
Divinity
By Sarah Horner Godhood is just like girlhood: A begging to be believed. Kristin Chang Pearly drops pour down rouged cheeks—we are...
Defunkt Magazine
- Jul 12, 2022
- 3 min
Poem by Keira Armstrong
are you the critic? every morning, we do nothing every morning, a page turns and i roll down a hill into an open mouth and blank palm...
Defunkt Magazine
- May 30, 2022
- 4 min
Time Is a Mother Book Review
Title: Time Is A Mother by Ocean Vuong Pub Date: Available Now Written By: Elliot Eatinger Summary: Ocean Vuong’s sophomore poetry...
Defunkt Magazine
- Apr 25, 2022
- 3 min
Confessing in verse: Escaping the Body, by Chloe N. Clark
Title: Escaping the Body, by Chloe N. Clark Pub date: March 7, 2022 Written By: Bruno Ríos So much has been written about the body that...
Defunkt Magazine
- Apr 18, 2022
- 6 min
In Karasik’s Program for the Revolution, Gender is First to Go
Plenitude: Poems. by Daniel Sarah Karasik. Book*hug Press, 96 pp., $20, April 7, 2022, 9781771667357 Written by: Cy Pacht First of all,...
Defunkt Magazine
- Mar 14, 2022
- 5 min
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head Book Review
Review: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire. Pub date 01 Mar 2022. Written By: Cy Pacht “No one leaves home...
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