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    From the magazine:Galvanizing Textures

    By Marcus Jackson

    Street portraits and poetry depicting the unfolding nuances of under-heralded people’s veracity and beauty.

    Black and white photograph of three Black women crossing a busy city street holding Chik-fil-A bags and wearing face masks.
  • Poem

    From the magazine:The Pelicans Can No Longer Reach You

    By Golden
    The pelicans can no longer reach you
    Watching droughts from windows
    Arctic snow shining shingles
    Fire cutting…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:My Albatross

    By Golden
    On the mountain coast,
    Grass & arctic wings.
    You clicked in my ear.
    A three-meter hug.
    A bobble of gay song…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:Innocence

    By David Woo
    Didion said that it ends when you’re stripped 
    of the delusion
    that you like yourself. 
    People burned themselves…
  • Poem

    From the magazine:From “Wound Up”

    By julie ezelle patton
    A narrow roll of white, lined paper with text handwritten on it in black ink. A hand writing. That’s always interesting. That’s the pleasure of writing. Like hang gliding—you lift…
    A narrow roll of white, lined paper with text handwritten on it in black ink.
  • Poem

    From the magazine:Punctuation

    By Aimee Nezhukumatathil
    A round image shows various sizes of paper strips piled together each containing one of the following phrases: 'The periods in your letters to me are tomato seeds. • Watch them blossom. • Notice the burst and bloom. • Smell their good odor in my hands. • Smell their good odor in my hands.'
  • Poem

    From the magazine:Arles, Whidbey

    By Reed Turchi
    Deltaic deposits deepen hues—
    not green, but that green,
    not blue, but that blue—

    In the small museum,
    a…
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    Artwork

    By James Black

    Images and poems drawn from a brotherhood of peace shared by Czech American poet Shann Ray and Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho ledger artist James Black. 

    Color pencil and ink drawing on used ledger paper of a person in traditional Native attire with long braids holding an umbrella as a bird flies nearby.
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