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Path of Totality by Niina Pollari (published in her 2022 book, Path of Totality, by Soft Skull Press) Something set you into motion. A...

A Blessing by James Wright (published in Above the River: The Complete Poems) Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight...

Ballad by Sonia Sanchez (published in her 2007 book, Homegirls & Handgrenades, White Pine Press) (after the spanish) forgive me if i...

Girl Scouts Visit the FBI, circa 1975 by Jane Satterfield (published in The Common, Issue 3, 2012) Fox’s series the X-Files starred David...

Can You Really Get By on Three Chords and the Truth? by Ace Boggess (published in Jenny, Issue 015, Fall 2018) I like to think of the...

Reading Late Anabasis by Ishion Hutchinson published in Connotation Press There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. —Thomas...

Living Room by Marie Ponsot The window’s old & paint-stuck in its frame. If we force it open the glass may break. Broken windows cut, and...

Haiku by Natsume Sōseki Over the wintry Forest, winds howl in rage With no leaves to blow.

The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer: Postscript by Hildegarde Flanner (originally published in a review of the book The Letters of Robert...

The Pivotal Kingdom by Alice Fulton (published in her 1994 book, Powers of Congress, David R. Godine, Publisher) A head capsized the wild...

A Voice Speaking Out by Faye Turner-Johnson (published in Sky Island Journal, Issue 7, Winter 2009) I have a voice that roams wild...

Chimera by Vievee Francis (published in her 2016 book from TriQuarterly Books, Forest Primeval) She's not "maternal," she's dangerous....

we only took pictures of special events. Film was expensive and getting photos developed was even more costly. And we got charged for...

Advice to the Photographers of Atrocities by Judith McCombs (published in The Anthology of Women Poets, 1973, edited by Pamela Victorine,...

Poem for My Love by June Jordan (published in the 2005 collection, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan) How do we...

Life on a Killer Submarine by President Jimmy Carter (published in North Dakota Quarterly, 60:1, 1992) I had a warm, sequestered feeling...

Ode to the Maggot By Yusef Komunyakaa (Published in his 2021 book, Every Day Mojo Songs of Earth; Farrah, Straus and Giroux) Brother of...

The Saturday Afternoon Blues by Wanda Coleman (published in her book, Imagoes, 1983, Black Sparrow Press) Can kill you can fade your life...

The Lion by Conrad Aiken (published in his book Cats and Bats and Things with Wings, 1965, Atheneum, drawings by Milton Glaser) The lion...

Theme for English B by Langston Hughes The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it...