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JESSICA YUAN | Mythomania

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February 2, 2023

Two Languages / One Community,
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San Francisco-based poet Michael Warr and poet/translator Chun Yu co-founded Two Languages / One Community in 2015.

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An Intimate Provocation: Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense

"To whom do we belong? Those whom we can see in photographs? Those we encounter in story? Or those...

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"That’s one reason to write poems under fire: to register a human reaction to dehumanizing circumstances. And that’s one...

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LA Looks

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my head on your chest
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A. These are easy, since they're all air. You open your mouth wide

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UNSENT FROM CDMX IN JANUARY

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KIM STAFFORD
historic marker

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it was here in mid-winter

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Photographs Taken by My Grandfather of Neu-Lobitz, His Childhood Home, Circa 1925

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January 15, 2023
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Life List

A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.

November 17, 2022
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In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.

November 2, 2022
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On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 10, 2022
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Conversations with contributors and other writers curated by Helene Achanzar

July 17, 2022
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Poets explore the intersection of word and image.

December 9, 2021
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Clear Air Turbulence: Reflections on a Mountain as Memorial Ground

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Wago Ryoichi’s Poetics of Catastrophe

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Dreams of Cells and Wolves

Doubling as a spellbook, this collection performs speech acts that reach for healing and integration, all while meditating on...

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The voices to which Barskova has turned her obsessive, greedy, undeceived attention in Air Raid are not easy voices...

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A Braided Stream:
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Conley’s book, to adopt a phrase of her own making, functions like an “earworm for the Anthropocene.”

by Gabi Graceffo
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Rebecca Morgan Frank’s Oh You Robot Saints!

by Alexa Luborsky

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January 15, 2023
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Alter-Energies: The Vitalities of Absence in Moby Dick

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"Such a world is one of interpenetrating energies—a large, looming but luminous consciousness, in which we ourselves might be but a half-articulate idea." –Dan Beachy-Quick

January 12, 2023
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January 4, 2023
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