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Open your almonds slowly by Jessica Brown
Open your almonds slowly by Jessica Brown published in Honest Ulsterman, June 2018 The air is so still I worry something bad is Coming as...

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Dec 19, 20211 min read


Anderson Inside the Hurricane by Stefi Weisburd
published in New Ohio Review, Issue 4, Fall 2008 Anderson Inside the Hurricane by Stefi Weisburd The wind has come to remind us of our...

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Dec 15, 20211 min read


Prairie Work by Susan Niz
Prairie Work by Susan Niz published in Ponder Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2018 I walk fatly through field Like a freckled,...

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Dec 12, 20211 min read


We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky from the book, Deaf Republic, published by Graywolf Press, 2019 And when they bombed...

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Dec 8, 20211 min read


soil by Irène P. Mathieu
soil by Irène P. Mathieu from the book orogeny, 2016 Bob Kaufman Prize, Trembling Pillow Press the way you say soil sounds like soul, as...

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Dec 5, 20211 min read


Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon...

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Dec 1, 20211 min read


Coyote Night by Adrian C. Louis
Coyote Night Adrian C. Louis A flat tire ten miles east of Pine Ridge just past the Wounded Knee turnoff. I disembark into Siberia...

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Nov 28, 20211 min read


Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan
Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan Nothing is plumb, level, or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece...

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Nov 24, 20211 min read


Tala (ode to the Girl-Palm) by Majda Gama
Tala (ode to the Girl-Palm) by Majda Gama published in Nimrod, Spring/Summer 2019, Volume 62, Number 2 Voices of the Middle East and...

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Nov 21, 20211 min read


The Exact Moment I Became a Poet by Paula Meehan
for Kay Foran published in As If By Magic: Selected Poems (WFUP, 2021) was in 1963 when Miss Shannon rapping the duster on the easel’s...

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Nov 17, 20211 min read


Bless this Bagel by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Bless this Bagel by Shirley Geok-lin Lim published in Walking Backwards (West End Press) Bless this bagel this Sunday morning, Stark...

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Nov 14, 20211 min read


So Many Swans Could Mean Something by Karen Donovan
published in Exploded Assembly (Sow's Ear 2019 Chapbook Competition winning chapbook) I don't want to talk about what we have lost, I am...

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Nov 10, 20211 min read


In the ER at 1 AM by Mary Hanarhan
In the ER at 1 AM by Mary Hanarhan published in Sugar House Review, Issue 18 You die next to the man holding a dish towel over his bloody...

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Nov 7, 20211 min read


Hunter's Moon by Kelli Russell Agodon
Hunter's Moon Kelli Russell Agodon published in Waxwing Literary Journal The first person you fall in love with will be a deer. You will...

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Nov 3, 20211 min read


Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich Home’s the place we head for in our sleep. Boxcars stumbling north in dreams don’t...

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Oct 31, 20211 min read


To a Small, Sweet Calimyrna Fig by Paulann Petersen
To a Small, Sweet Calimyrna Fig by Paulann Petersen published in Weber Half dried, half not. Skin puckered. Your stem-end curves...

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Oct 27, 20211 min read


Protocol for Wings by Rachel Landrum Crumble
Protocol for Wings by Rachel Landrum Crumble published in Typishly on February 20, 2019 Don’t let their newfound weight sink your...

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Oct 24, 20211 min read


"The Burly Fading One" by Robert Hayden
"The Burly Fading One" by Robert Hayden The burly fading one beside the engine, holding a lantern in his hand, is Uncle Jed--bullyboy of...

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Oct 20, 20211 min read


Newly Discovered Portrait of My Mother with Ocotillo and Grapefruit by Donna Prinzmetal
Newly Discovered Portrait of My Mother with Ocotillo and Grapefruit by Donna Prinzmetal published in The Midnight Oil, Volume 1 In the...

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Oct 17, 20211 min read


Learning the City by Murders by Nancy Breen
Learning the City by Murders by Nancy Breen I once knew the lay of the city by murders. My childhood was full of them, heavy aghast...

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Oct 13, 20211 min read
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