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April 2024

Cover Artist: Lynne Yun at Space Type

i(’ll) sprout any how
(flourish!)

 Samiya Bashir
  • Melvin Dixon
  • Krista Franklin
  • Bo Hee Moon
  • Erik Tschekunow
  • Ariel Francisco
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From this Issue

Poem

From the magazine:

Redeem

By Rosalie Moffett
The sun was losing
a long gold tooth

on the linoleum
of the labor and delivery ward.

I lifted my plastic bracelet to the green eye
of the barcode gun and it sang

the first note
of money’s national anthem.

Redeem, a word with its feet
in the cement...
Poem

From the magazine:

Hats May Perish

By Sid Ghosh
Some bequeath poetry.
Some bequeath hats.
Tomes of my sorry
hats can destroy
libraries.
Poem

From the magazine:

Once, While Disemboweling the Chicken

By Isabella DeSendi
readying it for my lover’s dinner, I remembered
my abuela slashing the rooster’s throat. I was four.
Held the wet blade in my hand and cried. For days
the carcass hung like a cross over the red front door
until it shriveled and stunk,...
Multiple people reading Poetry magazine, each framed in colorful arched shapes. Red and black text reads. "Special Offer. 5 months of Poetry for $15"

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Multiple people reading Poetry magazine, each framed in colorful arched shapes. Red and black text reads. "Special Offer. 5 months of Poetry for $15"