July/August 2024 Poetry Cover

July/August 2024

Cover Artist: Lynne Yun at Space Type

i calculate loss
like anyone
a fugitive to sleeping

 Ibe Liebenberg
  • Felicia Zamora
  • Staceyann Chin
  • Ibe Liebenberg
  • M. Seppola Simonsen
  • Ronaldo V. Wilson
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From this Issue

Poem
By Jessica Abughattas
The winter I leave him, I ask my parents to consider me
their oldest son. To bend the rules.
I could be a little tree, late to flourish,
focused on my underground career.
I tell them to buy me a house.
They’re 15 years divorced. We’re sitting around
my mother’s kitchen table. My father and I smoke.
My father: Remember, this is the…
Poem
By Cheryl Clarke
                    Mother
Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church Nine
Senior pastor state senator
Name meaning “merciful”
Church eldress, oldest to be shot
Great grandnephew tries to shield her
        First and youngest shot
College administrator and pastor
        Doctor her last name not a title
Sunday school teacher
Track coach and pastor
Librarian
Church…
Poem
By G.C. Waldrep
It was not a question of not having the language for it—
having two, in fact. The walking towards it,
and then the walking away. How that felt, all the green
gathering itself to the idea of green, lingering
right at the edge of the dark, what we call the dark.
And the languages, both of them, noticing that, envying
it. From their…
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UP WE STEP: THE POETS OF FIRE & INK
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