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Coming of Age

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  • 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-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-magazineThe Closet Weeper

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

    Lantern flies triple from the sleeping…
  • Poem
    By Sarah Carson
    The first gun we knew came in a toolbox for the apocalypse: hammer, barrel, crushed can, pack of Newports…
  • Poem
    By Carol Ann Duffy
    At childhood’s end, the houses petered out
    into playing fields, the factory, allotments
    kept, like mistresses…
  • Poem
    By Tamsin Moore
    Long, empty roads stretching as long as the gas tank is willing—
    Sixty-seven dollars left from last …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWanderlust

    By Miguel A. Vega
    If, even now, I am excited about it: every cow & horse,
    every canoe on the surface of Pyramid Lake—…
    Colorful illustration of a young person with outstretched hands and a rainbow path swirling around them.
  • Poem
    By Lev Rubinstein
    Translated By Tatiana Tulchinsky & Philip Metres
    1
    Well, what on earth is there to say? 
    2
    He knows something, but won’t tell. 
    3
    Who knows, maybe you’re …
  • Poem
    By Paul Laurence Dunbar
    As a quiet little seedling
        Lay within its darksome bed,
    To itself it fell a-talking,
        And this is what…
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    My brother holds a snake by its head. The whole
                length of the snake is the length
     
    of my brother’s body. The snake’s head
                is held safely, securely, as if my brother
     
    is showing him something in the distant high grass.
                I...
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the party and the seed on the ground the afterparty.) I am getting so good at watching that...
  • Poem
    By Sappho
    Translated By Dan Beachy-Quick
    As the sweet-apple reddens on the high branch,
    high on the highest branch, that the apple-pickers forgot…
  • Poem
    By R. L. Swihart
    The young man says, “Alan can 
    do anything he wants”

    “Not fly,” I say

    The young man returns 
    a puzzled look…
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