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11th and 12th grade

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineAh-gong’s Funeral

    By Tiffany Hsieh
    I was a forty-one-year-old rabbit
    that year, which was said to be unlucky
    for the rabbits to go face-to…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinepoem.

    By Rowan Wilde Riggs
    constellations of dimwitted substrate
    twinkle like formless apparitions.
    i keep walking forward
    so your…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSlow Violence

    By Sarah Ghazal Ali
    The man that I love rinses our recyclables.

    The first man to love me
    bears the face of  his father,

    whom…
  • 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-magazineWe

    By Joshua Bennett
    The money of  the mind is attention, maybe.
    Which is not, initially, where I thought I’d begin,
    but we…
  • 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-magazineRedwork

    By Stefania Gomez
    In the sunless hour before day I hear the man I want
    to love just how I’d want him. He’ll never let a…
  • 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-magazinepoem.

    By Rowan Wilde Riggs
    A ball of  yarn is attempting to unravel my wits.
    It rolls over vistas that trample our view of each …
  • 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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