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"Wakefield High School Kansas Girls Basketball Team Photo, 1915" by Jeffrey Hecker
Our stretch fours know Audrey Munson’s full nudity in her silent film Inspiration enhances the plot: a sculptor loses a perfect model...
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Feb 12, 20232 min read
Two poems by Meg Kelleher
BLOOMSBURY TERM In the ten-karat buff bray of English sun in late May, unquiet Americans crack croquet behind the Georgian where we...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
"[ Liberate—A Statue / Marble Melted ]" by ShihMin Sun
Poem for my grandma Liberate— a statue / marble melted ivied-spine / scattered layers upon layers jointed waxed skin smokeless den She...
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Feb 12, 20233 min read
Two poems by Alex Braslavsky
And we all grew mountains in an intense drowning flat curve and dawn combined for fear these parades are longer than we thought, bathing...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
"Discovery" by Sera Jonas Jakob
— ‘and that means he’s going to have such a challenging life because’— Passenging Not really listening Sun on my face Semi-rural...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
"Lake" by Becky Kennedy
Several turns down the road, through switchgrass, the paths like so many answers, you take the trail to where the lake lies like black...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
"Mike Bufano" by Charles Kell
The hail bruised our backs, the rain, Hart Crane. Later, in Warren, you were my only friend. At the gym, under weights, sweat on your...
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Jan 1, 20231 min read
"Final Entry" by Matthew Freeman
I took a long flight far away from reality. It wasn’t me who set me going. It’s why when I was walking around campus pretty sure I was...
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Jan 1, 20232 min read
Three Poems by Dani Putney
Kevin I thought we created a constellation out of Mango Carts & Fireball shots Tuesday night. You, me, & the cowboy bikers shooting pool...
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Jan 1, 20231 min read
Two Poems by Jane Zwart
The King’s Hobby As a prince, he played: the ponies, the piano. He ran gauntlets, bred ferrets, penned sonnets. Phoebes were his hobbies,...
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Jan 1, 20232 min read
Three Poems by Elias Baez
FOGGY MORNING shear sunlight’s shaggy wool tease out color clumps gauzy prism pulling apart damp the sharp a little today spit-slicked...
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Jan 1, 20231 min read
"Spring" by Nicole Tallman
They say there are two seasons in Michigan, winter and construction, but today it feels like spring. I’m getting comfortable again with...
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Jan 1, 20231 min read
"fugitive: clothesline" by Lisa Roullard
my clothes snap-talk at the wind saying what i still can’t just flap it out pant leg and sleeve pant leg and sleeve maybe it’s easier to...
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Jan 1, 20232 min read
Four Poems by Andrew Hahn
First Day on Anxiety Medication That morning at my older boyfriend’s house, after swallowing my first dose, I blacked out in the shower,...
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Dec 4, 20222 min read
From the outpost: jim bourey reviews Carol Jennings' The Sustain Pedal, from Cherry Grove
The Sustain Pedal Poems by Carol Jennings Published by Cherry Grove Collections 2022 I was prepared to not like this poetry collection....
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Dec 4, 20223 min read
From the outpost: jim bourey reviews Dave Boles' Coyote Vision, from Cold River Press
Coyote Vision By Dave Boles Published by Cold River Press September 2022 For centuries storytellers and poets have used wild (and...
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Nov 21, 20222 min read
Two Poems by Dante Clark
How Soon Before the Locusts Thoughts & prayers my ass. Next door, Raheem’s back on his bullshit with the oven & the exposed gas line...
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Nov 21, 20224 min read
"Grey, With a Bit of Color" by Anahi Ortiz
You love to paint on my face. You love to fingerpaint. Dipping your knuckles and the tips of your fingers you would paint the night sky...
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Nov 21, 20221 min read
This too shall...
Pacify that cliche, before I ask what "This" means to you and we discover, out loud, our mismatching wavelengths, resign to hushup the...
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Nov 21, 20222 min read
Three Poems by Alonso Llerena
NOTES FROM MY NEW COUNTRY After Suji Kwock Kim The travelers are tragically far north dispossessed of home. They dig future graves with...
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