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Reflections on Ingeborg Bachmann's "plunges into silence" at her centenary.
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Xochi Quetzali Cartland affirms a poetry practice devoted to justice, liberation, and the lived truths of Black, brown, queer, and immigrant communities.
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Dawdle…
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I go home to the reservation every other year and each time my cousins remind me how Mvskoke doesn’t…
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By Dante Alighieri
Translated By Robert Pinsky
As I drew nearer to the end of all desire,
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