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  • Article
    By Leonora Simonovis

    Joining together in the place of a poem

    Poetry and Practice
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineRedwork

    By Stefania Gomez
    In the sunless hour before day I hear the man I want
    to love just how I’d want him. He’ll never let a…
  • 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-magazinepoem.

    By Rowan Wilde Riggs
    constellations of dimwitted substrate
    twinkle like formless apparitions.
    i keep walking forward
    so your…
  • 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-magazineWoof, This Heat

    By Kate Partridge
    The dentist is now the same
    age as me, which is troubling,
    mostly because of what I
    have and have not done…
  • 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-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
    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
    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-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
    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-magazineWar. Day 294

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