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  • 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.
  • Audio
    By Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    Mango Head

    By Shara McCallum
    Why yu always ask stupid question, ee?
    The man call mango head because him head
    shape like mango. What…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineCherry

    By Yi Li
    I love cherries.
    The fruit, juice, jam,
    blossoms, prints on a summer
    dress, in a black forest cake…
  • Poem
    By Hershman John
    Last Easter, I gave my mother-in-law a large, brown, simple ceramic
                Navajo water pot, shiny with pine…
  • Poem
    By Afrizal Malna
    Translated By Daniel Owen
    WORKSHOP 5: MY CAPTIVE

    its voice’s echo comes back to make a sound wall
    of its voice
    standing in a circle
    in front of a globe full of time traps
    fingers that clutch a rat
  • Poem
    By Afrizal Malna
    WORKSHOP 5: TAWANAN AKU

    gema suaranya kembali lagi membuat dinding bunyi
    dari suaranya
    berdiri melingkar
    di depan bulatan penuh perangkap waktu
    jari-jari yang menggenggam tikus
  • Poem
    By Ama Codjoe
    What if, Betye, instead of a rifle or hand
    grenade—I mean, what if after
    the loaded gun that takes two hands
    to fire, I lay down the splintered broom
    and the steel so cold it wets
    my cheek? What if I unclench the valleys
    of my...
  • Poem
    By Sasha Dugdale
    The downs are certainly lovely, although by mortal loveliness
    did you mean they would disappear one day…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine

    Self-Elegies 

    By Martha Silano
    Because why not? Why not take the smashed pinecone 
    of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of…
  • Poem
    By Megan Denton
    Which way to the monster cage? I am in my god body now—

    in my sandy foxhole
    sat backwards in a chair…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePentimento

    By Mag Gabbert
    The effect—for those three hundred years, while the cupid remained hidden—was a kind of silence.

    Like…
  • Poem
    By Russell Atkins
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