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11th and 12th grade

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWar. Day 294

    By Olga Livshin
    December. In Odesa,
    power stations, shelled.
    Your father’s friend
    shivers in his apartment
    crammed with …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineCrossing

    By Ross White
    I’m not the first man to lose his father
    slowly, not the first to wonder
    when I walk in the room if the…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePhysical Education

    By Joshua Bennett
    For the sake of argument, let’s say
    the day my father outlawed all contact
    between backhand and face, …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWreck

    By Stefania Gomez
    Firemen cut the car open like a cake but when
    they reached through the windshield to pull me out
    they …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    I-765

    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
    Under the header Other Names Used are a series of collaged labels from a form with boxes filled in with poetic text. Under the header Other information are two boxes. One asks for the alien registration number. The answer is filled in as antigravity. The other asks for the SSN and is filled in as antisocial. Under a collaged header with the text Your Countries Citizen Nation Place of Birth are several boxes filled in with poetic text.
  • Poem
    By Martha Silano
    Is this the last time I’ll admire the guys
    in their neon-yellow slickers, guiding us
    to our parking spots…
  • Collection
    By Forrest Gander

    “Be wet with a decent happiness.”

    Cover image for "EcoPoetry and Water"
  • Poem
    By Jericho Brown
    Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium. We thought
    Fingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learning
    Names in heat…
  • Poem
    By Langston Hughes
    When the shoe strings break
    On both your shoes
    And you're in a hurry—
    That's the blues.   When you go…
  • Article
    By Jack Collom & Sheryl Noethe
  • Article
    By Jack Collom & Sheryl Noethe
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