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From the magazine:On Translating Manuel Becerra

By Kristin Dykstra

A poet with interests in cross-border
affinities in poetic history. 

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From the magazine:June

By jason b. crawford
Who wouldn’t have preferred a longer June; ’though
this seems trivial now in these milk-white lights.…
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From the magazine:ode to a tardigrade

By Dayna Patterson
dearest wondrous water bear
o mighty moss piglet
you are my favorite 
micro-animal
there should be a holiday…
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From the magazine:After the Spring Uprising

By Shane McCrae
I came to campus thinking I’d see wreckage smoke
The hexagonal stones that constitute the path
Broken     …

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From the magazine:Such Sweet Thunder

By A. Van Jordan
Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, 1956

Minor chords ring across Stratford farmland. We jazz...
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From the magazine:The Egg and the Stone

By Sylvie Kandé
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From the magazine:Say Word?

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Jan Beatty’s eighth book is Dragstripping (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024). Beatty has worked as a waitress, an abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons.

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