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Beth Israel by Dara-Lyn Shrager
06 October 2017 on PoetryThe baby arrived with legs that swung out like doors set backwards on their hinges. Across from the building where he was born, another building to tell us he will...
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“Erratics” by Michael Lauchlan
22 September 2017 on PoetryThey’re erratics, a friend tells me, left by glaciers. I say they were left by a crew that dug up the sewers, but he’s unfazed. Before that, he says, way...
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“Wait Till Your Father Gets Home” by John Buckley
10 March 2017 on PoetryHe’s not dead anymore; he sent Michael Landon walking and Della Reese down, Neo to be wracked for our sins. So says the post- Nietzschean hot-dog vendor, inter- rupting his...
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Can’t Get a Break?
17 February 2017 on Blog, PoetryWhen writing a poem, how do you decided where to draw the line? That is, when you crack a sentence in half, what determines where you make the break? After...
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“Culvert” by Matt Sumpter
09 February 2017 on PoetryI loved the toxic run-off, tentacles of algae, and corrugated zinc that tripped me as I hunched in the culvert, following Will Macon’s echoing hard steps, listening to loaded pick-ups...
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“Rue Musette” by Sarah Sloat
16 December 2016 on PoetryFrance cast a columnar silhouette. In the travel brochure the people who vandalized Dijon’s church were called revolutionaries. They studied the smoke instead of the fire. Another guide claims it...
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“Bathtub Grading” by Jodie Liedke
02 December 2016 on Poetry-2010 tornado touches down in La Crosse, WI In the dark with my headlamp on, I grade essays in my bathtub, while the tornado gorges two blocks over. I call...
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“Theodore Roethke Drinks a Pint of Vodka and Talks About Love” by Jackson Holbert
28 October 2016 on PoetryI've always enjoyed a song more when I was alone. The Pacific's mist fighting the coast. How you taste it when you cough. I, who have always asked my bones...
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“Middle-Ear Evolution” by Lois Bassen
07 October 2016 on Blog, Poetry"So reptiles eat with the bones we hear with." --"Reptiles Eat With the Bones Humans Hear With, Fossil Proves" by John Noble Wilford, April 18, 2011 Chew Schubert’s E-flat Trio for...
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“I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” by Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale
23 September 2016 on PoetryI give up is written on a bathroom stall at a state university on the second floor of the men's library bathroom with books about French pottery, earthquakes, the...
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Editor’s Blog: AWP 2016 – Los Angeles, CA
29 April 2016 on PoetryI hate flying. Actually, it’s not the flying so much as the routine that I’ve stuck with ever since I first started travelling: I pack the day I fly. This...
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“Zion” by Travis Truax
15 April 2016 on PoetryThe tall reeds along the river are as tough as an old Ute’s wisdom. This world ends in sand, they say. The canyon walls guide the pooling stars. Talkative...
