The Core Review
Issue 4 | Spring 2026
Happy Deathday!
Boca Chica Launch Fever
Nocturne With Lead Paint
Turtle Soup
Canopy
The Green Elephant
Clouded
Persephone Visits the Acropolis Museum
Clayman’s Terms
When my rings don’t fit I think of my grandmother’s hands
Safe as Houses
It’s All in a Woman’s Day
ouroboros spell, in red
Painted by an Elephant
Layover
A False Love
Pastoral
Third Wheel
Stray (The Moon)
Dorchester
Asleep in the Reeds
my cousin Ava
Hell Enough
What Mess
The Birds Do Not Sow, the Lillies Do Not Spin
The white/blue fin of the whale
Burst Pipes
fluidics
From the curb
Ghost City
Issue 3 | Fall 2025
A Tornado Touches Down in My Hometown
Full Sturgeon Moon
Sweet Rot
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The Lesbians On Tumblr Are Telling Me to Eat a Sandwich
Bump and Run
Aisle of Mirrors
AJAR
Rusty Dream
Buttons
the animals walked out of the burning meadow
The Lepidopterist
Poem for the Willimantic Alligator
Teeth in Rows
Palabras Peligrosas
Crisis
Filching
Commas
Restraint
Descendants
Suffering Through
A Short Inventory of Small Ruins
Springing Into Rest
Shades of Blue
Light Language
Where It Began
Issue 2 | Spring 2025
Dry Spell
Crying About Old Women at the Macy’s Jewelry Counter (Again)
Taste of Burning Sugar
Virgin Mojito
Dough-Over
Gluten Breath
Off Menu
The First Time I Gave Birth
Married White Male
Pimping for Flowers
Self Portrait as Silkworm
Postmodern Transportation
My Lips Are Up Here
a doctor conducts an interrogation with my spinal column
What the Desert Gave Me
Signing the Guest Book
Ode to the Collapsed Barn Off the Interstate
High Bridge Park
If You Weren’t You
Lord of the Fishes
Taipei, July 2022–Georgia, 2024
Afternoon in the Archives
For a Ghost
A Perfect, Pale Darkness
Technicolor
Brain
Heart
This is a Poem, Not Trash
Bok-bok Brother
Dinner Party: She Comes to the Door
Issue 1 | Fall 2024
Dinner Party In Green
Inheritance
If Jesus and Judas walked into a bar after the last supper
Top Chef S13 E8: On Microgreens
Market Day
Last Gasp
The Oldest Man in the Skateboard Park
Matchbook Dominoes
On Identity
Dinner with Enya
Dermatillomania
Dead Deer, Nebraska
Going home the weekend the boy I used to love died
Can’t Go Home
The Imaginers
Said the Lily Leaf to the Slug
One of These Things First
Of Course You Can’t Really Change Anyone
A Color of Wheat to the Forest Wall
if you had truly tasted the rainbow, you would know it tastes like the drive to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the fall
Coupon Royals