“The older I get the more I want to crawl out of my city, into other parts of the world.”
— Jack Hinzo
“Poems can be extremely vulnerable, but I never want a reader to feel like they know me because they read my poems. ”
— a. benét
“I always prefer to write when I’m a little hungry, or otherwise unsatiated.”
“If I type my current address into Google and then street image the map, I can see Carol parked on the street in front of my apartment.”
— Jon Tobias
“Next year, there’s a billion-dollar hotel opening, and I’m afraid it’s going to change the atmosphere of the place I’ve known my entire life.”
— Alana Rodriguez
“Sometimes these shoes pain me, and sometimes they make me feel joy, but I think about them a lot.”
— Angela Mendoza
