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By Petala Ironcloud
The Idea of an Entire Life, by Billy-Ray Belcourt, is at once a love letter to poetry and queer Indigeneity—and a sustained act of refusal.
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By Roma Uzzaman
DeeSoul Carson writes poetry at the intersection of witness and action, exploring joy, grief, and absurdity through bold rhetorical experimentation.
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From the magazine:From “Feed”
From “Feed”
By Tommy Pico
Dear reader,
I’ve been thinking
a lot about stretch denim
that doesn’t also have a stretchy waistband
(by which I mean nature’s cruelest disagreements)
and I’ve been thinking
about the slobbering of heat that is the promise of spring. Today, to wear out the woozy, to...
I’ve been thinking
a lot about stretch denim
that doesn’t also have a stretchy waistband
(by which I mean nature’s cruelest disagreements)
and I’ve been thinking
about the slobbering of heat that is the promise of spring. Today, to wear out the woozy, to...
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From the magazine:WHEREAS
WHEREAS
By Layli Long Soldier
WHEREAS a string-bean blue-eyed man leans back into a swig of beer work-weary lips at the dark bottle keeping cool in short sleeves and khakis he enters the discussion;
Whereas his wrist loose at the bottleneck to come across as candid...
Whereas his wrist loose at the bottleneck to come across as candid...
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From the magazine:in defense of gold
By José Olivarez
i know it’s unnecessary, but hear me out:
as a kid, even the gold kept in the mall
was fake. chains that…
as a kid, even the gold kept in the mall
was fake. chains that…
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Scrambled eggs and whiskey
in the false-dawn light. Chicago,
a sweet town, bleak, God knows...
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From the magazine:The Egg and the Stone
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From the magazine:Say Word?
By CM Burroughs
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CM Burroughs
CM Burroughs is associate professor of poetry at Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of the collections The Vital System (Tupelo Press, 2012) and Master Suffering (Tupelo Press, 2020.) Burroughs has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Cave Canem. She has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry...
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