Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Affection by Emily Jungmin Yoon

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Affection We watch the moving topography of brutality, the red slopes and orbs mapping deaths from virus, from fire, from firearms. It feels...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Blueberries for Cal by Brenda Shaughnessy

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Blueberries for Cal   Watching little Henry, six, scoop up blueberries and shovel them into his mouth, possessed.   I’m so glad I brought bl...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts

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Shahid Reads His Own Palm  I come from the cracked hands of men who used            the smoldering ends of blunts to blow shotguns,  men who...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Fence of Sticks by Deborah Digges

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Fence of Sticks  As I was building a fence of sticks I heard the question, Weren’t there times worse than this for art? Weren’t there those ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Boy coming out Gay going far to Lady way to Queer by Rickey Laurentiis

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Boy coming out Gay going far to Lady way to Queer   I confess the Trans is dangerous. It leans provocation On the teeth of the mind: an ...
Monday, April 21, 2025

On the Thirtieth Friday We Consider Plurals by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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On the Thirtieth Friday We Consider Plurals   At the border, a flock of journalists. A sacrifice of tires burned behind us. Beneath the picn...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Under Limestone by Richie Hofmann

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Under Limestone   It rained in fluted torrents, the earth smelled of manure. It was like desire entering and possessing you quietly. We undr...