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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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Prose from Poetry Magazine

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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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:Everybody Has a Heartache: A Blues

By Joy Harjo
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—2019

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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