VOICEMAIL POEMS Podcast
1) "Thirty-Some Years Frozen" by Nix Carlson
frostbitten hands snatch at the cigarette dangling from your lips and you stoop to meet my gaze with a hangdog expression. i want to be angry (god, i want to be so angry) because cigarettes will ...Show More
2) "They Send Me to the City to Stay with my Auntie" by Bill Ratner
I hang my jacket in the hallway her apartment is old made from shoestring potatoes it smells like a jelly factory. Against the wall a man’s face eyes folded laces around his neck. That’s your Un...Show More
3) "Orchard Grafts" by Tian Sanchez-Ballado
A fig in an orange grove— I pruned myself from the rotting branch, sawed through the only bark I knew. Now I stand among the citrus on the longest night, their branches strung with stars, garland...Show More
4) "Nooduitgang" by Cole Pragides
Once I visited my old roommate at a film festival on Scheveningen beach where the winning movie was something avant garde and vaguely religious we did not understand. Afterwards we danced to Madonna'...Show More
5) "Motion, or Teaching My Best Friend My Favorite Songs At the Top of Our Lungs" by Ariana Brown
for Hamze we are as dark inside as the night is, meaning, we are so beautiful most people choose not to see us, for fear of overwhelming themselves—& we are sitting in the front seat of your car, sh...Show More
6) "Lukewarm Iced Tea" by Erick Flores Diaz
Our eyes meet on the rear-view mirror Scorched earth passes by Stretched by the mile, rolled windows for letting the poem breathe. Tainted. A light contour is drawn on yo...Show More
7) "Grieving with Bob Ross" by Trystan Popish
The afternoon of my grandmother’s funeral, my sisters, mom, nephew, and I decide to paint with a Bob Ross episode, hoping to dull our grief with bright colors, to soothe our broken spirits with hi...Show More
8) "God's Alternative Response to Job (2025 Version)" by Jonathan Fletcher
Where were you when Jeff Hiller won his first Emmy? Or when Taylor got engaged to Travis? Tell me, why hasn’t Ralph Fiennes won an Oscar? Why did Adam Lambert lose to Kris Allen? Yes, there are thi...Show More
9) "God Made Me a Fag" by Oisín Rowe
Rolled in gold leaf, cocooned in shreddings of ancient text. His words, a pathetic stream slurring out between pulls, Prophets lust but I beg you, beg. Lick the good soil off your lover’s han...Show More
10) "Fuccboi" by Tim Lynch
BATEMAN God... I guess... I was probably returning videotapes. American Psycho (2000), Mary Harron & Guinevere Turner and Bret Easton Ellis i never admitted fault / at confession either / the pries...Show More