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Two poems by Xiadi Zhai
SEVEN-TEN SPLIT big strike gold rush & any second now it’s gonna kick in & down, torch red taillights through blinds which slice across...
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Dec 31, 20242 min read
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"Meadows Are Burning in My Sleep" by Carolyn Adams
Meadows open like books toward the horizon, pitch and swell with prairie language. I know I am in a dream, and this is my way of...
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Dec 31, 20241 min read
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Two poems by Sandra Fees
silking day / light into glass I might have / become a grandmother / or grasshopper / might have curled inside a flower’s scent of...
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Dec 31, 20242 min read
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"Columbus Day Weekend, 1972" by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The park was cold air —sharp vinegar in the nose. A damp picnic, with family the daughter did not know well. She did not want to be...
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Dec 31, 20241 min read
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"Everything Goes" by David Salner
You come to this valley where the tall grass trembles in no breeze at all, and the road vanishes in the glow of headlights in fog, and...
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Dec 31, 20241 min read
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Two poems by Lillian Tzanev
Observing a man’s hair plugs either my new low / or perhaps a new peace / a petal laid on a pond’s surface / i stare at follicles / ...
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Dec 31, 20241 min read
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Two poems by CL Bledsoe
Burr Dream On the night of my dead brother’s birthday, I dream his body has grown feet from his belly. A ring of them, some protruding...
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Dec 31, 20242 min read
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"Every Moment Can Have Permanance" by David Rodriguez
Riskless nights’ suburban memory: a Stop through the plosive, my heart in soil, always punished for one reason or another: because a...
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Dec 31, 20241 min read
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"Drift Theory" by Grant Clauser
for Tom Mallouk We paused where the river waited behind a boulder, trout sipping caddis flies from the swift current, tree swallows...
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Dec 31, 20241 min read
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"Dry Spell" by Quinn Franzen
any good actor will tell you it’s not them up there but a kind of wind that throws wide the door they have spent their whole lives to...
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Dec 31, 20241 min read
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"Vladimir Plays the Odds" by Raya Yarbrough
Vladimir came to America from Russia in 1998. “All of my buddies, they gambles.” And tonight, he is my Lyft...
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Dec 31, 20245 min read
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"Have You Heard The One About The Anorexic & Chili’s? I Think It Goes Something Like" by Megan Williams
An anorexic walks into Chili’s. She opens the menu and dies from shock. An anorexic walks into Chili’s. She doesn’t open the menu,...
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Dec 31, 20242 min read
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"Fair Haven" by Melissa Onstad
I was the queen of water, even if no one knew. Ten years old, teeming with secrets I was called innocent and little and cute. I was...
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Dec 11, 202415 min read
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jim bourey reviews Emily Schulten
Easy Victims to the Charitable Deception of Nostalgia By Emily Schulten White Pine Press 2024 The striking cover of this poetry...
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Nov 25, 20243 min read
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jim bourey reviews Hayden Saunier
Wheel By Hayden Saunier Terrapin Books 2024 Here’s an honest answer to why it’s taken me so long to write this review: this book of poems...
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Nov 25, 20242 min read
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"Arabic in America" by Jake Zuppa
Settling into a wingback lounge chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I allow myself to rest in the sweeping view overlooking...
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Nov 15, 202414 min read
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"Matter is the Problem of the House" by Ben Gibbons
Matter is the problem of the house, which is the problem with me. Matter and the problem of the house can be neither created nor...
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Nov 5, 20242 min read
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Against an Apostrophe by Emily Ellerbe
after Brian Doyle Consider the word takhi for a moment. Written, the word might remind you of a Taki, the preservative-loaded,...
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Nov 5, 20243 min read
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"The Antidote" by Karen Regen Tuero
For a long time she’d been grappling with the question of why she bothered to write. She knew it wasn’t to connect with potential readers...
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Nov 5, 20244 min read
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"Taking Liberties Out" by David Kozinski
The other night was a good one in the east when the rain stopped and I plant liberties so I can pull them up like turnips again and...
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Oct 23, 20241 min read
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