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From the magazine:Galvanizing Textures
By Marcus Jackson
Street portraits and poetry depicting the unfolding nuances of under-heralded people’s veracity and beauty.
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From the magazine:On Disgust: Gurgling Pits
By Jane Wong
Disgusting, isn’t it, how much we want to be loved?
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Nick Makoha invites listeners to build a cocoon, then break free.
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From the magazine:“It is spring again”
By Halina Poświatowska
Translated By Karolina Zapal & Ryan Mihaly
It is spring again, spring so astonishingly familiar: so why is poetry choking on itself? The tree outside…
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From the magazine:From “Small Sargasso Mountains” [“The colossal Olmec heads”]
From “Small Sargasso Mountains” [“The colossal Olmec heads”]
By Antonio Ochoa
The colossal Olmec heads were carved in basalt. There is one that you always see when you think about…
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In the United terminal in Chicago at five on a Friday afternoon
The sky is breaking with rain and wind and all the flights
Are delayed forever. We will never get to where we are going...
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Linda Gregg
1942—2019Linda Gregg
Linda Gregg was born in New York and raised in Marin County, California. She earned both a BA and an MA from San Francisco State University. Gregg published several collections of poetry, including All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (2008), a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2008 and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; In the Middle Distance (2006); Things and Flesh (1999), finalist for the Kingsley Tufts...
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From the magazine:The Singers Change, the Music Goes On
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From the magazine:She Sang of Seeing
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