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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Death of the Book

    By Luke Allan
    1. This morning the nurse tested me for allergies. She said she’d test for “known allergies,” which …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineEloquence

    By Georgio Russell
    Within this simple chapel, located near the navel
    of the little clinic, the walls are all the white
    of…
  • Poem
    By Jessie Leitzel
    The end of summer
    and our jalapeño plant

    is wilting, its stem brittle
    as the heat peels

    away from us,
    though…
  • 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-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-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-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-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-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-magazineA Force of Nature

    By Paul Tran
    Mixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
    Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
    A stranger…
  • Audio
    By Brittany Perham
  • Audio
    By Joshua Bennett
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