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    Context

    By Leonora Simonovis

    Joining together in the place of a poem

    Poetry and Practice
  • Poem

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    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-magazineWar. Day 294

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

    Cooking Ghazal

    By Samyak Shertok

    midnight murmurs of a brokenhearted nomad

    Poetry and Practice
  • Poem

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    Is This My Last Ferry Trip?

    By Martha Silano
    Is this the last time I’ll admire the guys
    in their neon-yellow slickers, guiding us
    to our parking spots…
  • Poem

    The Haunted House

    By Felicia Dorothea Hemans
    See’st thou yon gray gleaming hall,
    Where the deep elm-shadows fall?
    Voices that have left the earth
      …
  • Collection

    Ecopoetry and Water

    By Forrest Gander

    “Be wet with a decent happiness.”

    Cover image for "EcoPoetry and Water"
  • Poem

    All Souls’ Night

    By William Butler Yeats
    Midnight has come and the great Christ Church bellAnd many a lesser bell sound through the room;And …
  • Poem

    Halloween in the Anthropocene

    By Karyna McGlynn
    & Memphis is out in Full Fang!
    Skeletons skip down our pitted streets.
    Whole families with matching hobo stipple
    roam tragicomically through the sprawling
    candy deserts: polka-dot bandanas
    on sticks, flapping Chaplinesque shoes.

    Unclaimed pumpkins pile high
    behind razor wire. The air's thick
    with caw & trouble. Our...
  • Poem

    Black Cherries

    By W. S. Merwin
    Late in May as the light lengthens
    toward summer the young goldfinches
    flutter down through the day for…
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