Sam Herschel Wein

Sam Herschel Wein (he/they) is a Chicago-based poet who specializes in perpetual frolicking. Their second chapbook, GESUNDHEIT!, a collaboration with Chen Chen, was part of the 2019-2020 Glass Chapbook series. He cofounded and edits Underblong. Recent work appears in Moon City Review, Sundog Lit, and Perhappened Mag, among others.

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People say I look cute in my purple bike helmet and I believe them

Sam Herschel Wein  | 
Issue 70.2 Spring 2021

denim shorts cut right to to the ass. Pink handlebars, a black and white striped backpack holding grapes. Lizzo blasts from the speaker on the straps. Strapped leather, friend-made harness visible under a mesh black top, flowers over the nipples. big, big flowers on the sides of the lake path. One cheek slides out the […]

Bock Rottom

Sam Herschel Wein  | 
Issue 70.2 Spring 2021

To use humor to talk about things I don’t like, I often switch the first letters of words as a ploy, a Medense Fechanism. Everybody loves jokes, especially therapists. I’m Deverely Suppressed today, thanks for asking. I thought about swallowing a Punch of Bills. I haven’t left my Dead in Bays. I’m soooo […]