Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

Before our girlfriends dumped us, we swayed gentle-drunk on the eve of our tenth high-school reunion, dogging shots around the dusty pool table at the town’s better bar. As we dipped about to Dua Lipa songs vibing from the jukebox, we blew our vape clouds into the swinging, green-frosted light, though the place was posted as smoke-free. Our girlfriends said, “We can’t believe you grew up in this town.” “Why?” we said. “You’re all so business-y now. Have they even heard of the NASDAQ around here?” “Maybe, maybe not, but big-city bitchyness they have heard of,” we said.

Before our girlfriends dumped us, we swayed gentle-drunk on the eve of our tenth high-school reunion, dogging shots around the dusty pool table at the town’s better bar. As we dipped about to Dua L…

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

You never could take anything too seriously, Loved rolling and twisting teal play doh Fashioning beaks and feet and wings Reminding us to love small things I wonder what you’d think of the beach, Not...

New York, NY (June 4, 2026)—The Literary Arts Fund announced today $7.7 million in inaugural unrestricted general operating grants to 40 literary arts organizations and publishers spanning 19 states, ...

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

Paper Sigh celebrates poetry that makes us better people.

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Seven ideas for creative fuel if you’re a writer headed to Key West

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a poem by Angela Heiser

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