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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSelf-Portrait as the Mountain

    By Xin Qiji
    Translated By Shangyang Fang
    to the tune “he xin lang: toasting the bridegroom”Now that I am old and those who crossed the mountains…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePetition for Reintroduction

    By Kate Partridge
    I don’t want to get emails from
                the wolf people anymore, but
    they know where I am—have known
                precisely…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineStreet Food

    By Daniel Halpern
    The redolence of rose and new road.
    The attar of grass, recently cut.
    The fish-whiff of anchovy.
    The spinning…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineOn Intimacy

    By Omotara James
    When we meet at the holiday table, we take turns
    and great pains not to remind each other
    of our mutual…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWork Ethic

    By Heidi Williamson
    You’re fifteen and nowhere in a town on the edge of pitiful lands stripped of fruit. The burger van’…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine⽊兰花·和孙公素别安陆

    By Zhang Xian
    相离徒有相逢梦。门外马蹄尘已动。
    怨歌留待醉时听，远⽬不堪空际送。

    今宵风⽉知谁共。声咽琵琶槽上凤。
    ⼈⽣⽆物⽐多情，江⽔不深⼭不重。
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineDeparture

    By Zhang Xian
    Translated By Shangyang Fang
    to the tune “mu lan hua: magnolia”
     After tonight, what’s left of you is you

    moving into my dream. Outside…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine贺新郎

    By Xin Qiji
    甚矣吾衰矣。
    怅平⽣、交游零落，只今余⼏！
    ⽩发空垂三千丈，⼀笑⼈间万事。
    问何物、能令公喜？
    我见青⼭多妩媚，料青⼭见我应如是。
    情与貌，略相似。

    ⼀尊搔⾸东窗⾥。
    想渊明、《停云》诗就，此时风味。
    江左沉酣求名者…
  • 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

    poetry-magazineWhen Untouched

    By Lauren Russell
    Hammock dumping
    you onto bruised
    grasses, frayed
    thoughts droop
    sideways, hammering
    morning. Slipper-
    footed…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Closet Weeper

    By Mitchell Glazier
    Stiletto melon collies, a tinsel mystic streaks our homeplace.

    Lantern flies triple from the sleeping…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Gazing Ball

    By Mitchell Glazier
    Queenly swans nudge eternity figs
    Yellow rose fire

    Lit by a ghost breath
    I’ve eaten you someplace before…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineStill

    By Brittany Perham
    The doctor tells her what she can’t eat
    no grains no nuts no beans no sugar a tomato is OK
    but no skins…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTriolet with a Line by Sylvia Plath

    By Brittany Perham
    We take the N out to the turnaround.
    The only thing to come now is the sea.
    The ice plants make the pink…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePair

    By Brittany Perham
    silicon valley

    The neural nets have been connected.
    The director takes the stand:
    Accolades should …
  • 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-magazineA Force of Nature

    By Paul Tran
    Mixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
    Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
    A stranger…
  • 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 …
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