“Topple”

by Stephen Haines

“Photosynthesis”

by Jason Hardung

“Can We Be Difficult Together?”

by Anna McCarthy

“Bandrui”

by AJ Strosahl

2022 Bodice Ripper Contest Winner

“A Holy Union“

by Simi Monheit

“Marauder”

by Sara Burge

“Greenish Yellowish Houses”

by Jeanne Morel

“I call and tell my mother I’m cutting my hair + A Love Poem to Cockroaches”

by Samantha Padgett

“Notes About the Butterflies, the Moth, and the Sadness”

by Triin Paja

“CLARA”

by Ann Pedone

“Wild”

by Anna B. Sutton