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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...
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“INDIANA PROBLEM (THREE STEAKS)” By Julia Story
25 March 2016 on PoetryThe babysitter came with a suitcase full of crap we liked: old clothes, naked Barbies with limbs scratched by some unknown girl. We ate TV dinners; mine rubber corn, burnt...
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“As I Read About Japan” by Michael Mingo
11 March 2016 on PoetryThe wind blows the pages from under my thumb, one way then another. I'm learning about the occupation, that malaise that hangs heavy over their cities like helicopters, black as...
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“One Hundred and Fiftieth Shiloh” by M. A. Schaffner
05 February 2016 on PoetryFestival ended, driving home we think the eggs were farby reproductions but apples showed a realistic size. Non-smoking rooms available. Been there, done that, got the steamboat ticket: West Tennessee...
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“Among Green Islands” by Nate Pritts
04 December 2015 on PoetryI wake to an unnaturally loud noise insects in summer a sharpened trill intense in the damp air which is otherwise flooded with the scent of grass & nostalgic light....
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“Sketch in Northwest Arkansas” by Nathan Parker
13 November 2015 on Poetrya stretch of fruit-strewn shade its vinegary yawn and meandering bones quick to make the blond with the apple between her mattresses say this is not a good place to...
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“Portal” by Nathan Parker
13 November 2015 on PoetryI've grown tired, walking stupidly around the house Saturdays, picking up shoes and receipts, rooting through the freezer for a cookie or a portal, sitting on a cold piano bench...
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“The New Geography” by Michael Pontacoloni
30 October 2015 on PoetryLike saran wrap taut around the rim of a crater on the moon, I am not good for much but keeping in and keeping out. Though, quiet as a map,...
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Fragments by Gregory Lawless
09 October 2015 on PoetryEtc. Fragment Their marriage was ending he waved his hands and gave examples Divorce Fragment “Everything she said,” he said, “was in italics.” Divorce Fragment...
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“This Thing Of Ours” by Julia Shipley
25 September 2015 on PoetryShark teeth, petrified wood, lump of crystalline. And so? Teeth of shark “killed off coast of Labrador.” Oh. Petrified wood from “the petrified forest where huge trees… lie just as they...
