Anonymous I had my right hand on the steering wheel while my left had just laid next to my side. I could feel the right side of my car driving off the pavement. I could hear the rocks hitting the…
Family Fears
Sean Trull (Greensboro, NC) Personally, I struggle with acting out. Not because I’m uncomfortable, or because I’m in any physical danger, but because I’m afraid of judgment. Even when I know that yes, now I need to act out, now…
Restless Thoughts
Walt Rakestraw (Greensboro, NC) Love is very strange, If you search, You can’t find it, If you leave it be, It will find you, Everyone wants “Love”, And everyone expects others to find “Love”, It’s a way of life, But…
Power of Makeup
The Perfect Imperfect Love
Shawn Tyler Hardin (Greensboro, NC) One looks upon the rose And cannot but help To admire it’s beauty And one cannot help But to want that rose To pick and cherish it Not a soul in the world Would not…
Call for Submissions: I Don’t Do Boxes 2015, Issue 3
Now seeking submissions from queer youth who are (or aspiring to be) artists, poets, and writers for the third issue of I Don’t Do Boxes, a magazine exploring LGBTQ experience This issue’s theme is Act…
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Poem 10
Elizabeth LeJeune (Oakland, CA) I refuse the melancholia of little girls without mothers. I will not accept senselessly prolonged sadness. I don’t know who that woman was. How could I miss someone I don’t know? I miss the idea thrown…
Out Loud!: A collection of queer music and voices
Out Loud! is a collection of music, sounds and voices gathered for the second issue of I Don’t Do Boxes magazine.
Through the Fire
Deonna Kelli Sayed (Greensboro, NC)
Self Portrait
Sam Kardos (Richmond, VA)
The Summer
Michael Johnson (Lincoln, NE) I have glimpsed in my dream last night that which may be no more than a dream. It comes, from somewhere in the sands of time, moving its liquid thighs, sloughing through the air and rippling…
Atlanta Stories Series
Marjorie E. Hendrix (Atlanta, GA)
