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let us choose / what shadows // we are

DONALD PLATT | Glyphs

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AARON FAGAN Arrow of Time

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Seeing too much is seeing too little

November 14, 2018
Poems

GINA KEICHER How We Grew Up in the Valley

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a want / to be hammer and fire

November 12, 2018
Poems

BRANDON SOM from Tripas

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a distance / we call octave

November 5, 2018
Poems

ANDREW HEMMERT Runaway

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All things shrink into mirrors

October 31, 2018
Poems

KATIE PETERSON Sad Americans

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Were they taking their loneliness out on each other?

October 29, 2018
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MIA AYUMI MALHOTRA Two Poems

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And the fear, held in equal measure.

October 22, 2018
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On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

March 20, 2018
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Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South

Essays and poems by Shamala Gallagher, Kimberly Alidio, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Sarah Gambito, Tiana Nobile, and Ching-In Chen

December 13, 2017
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Native Poets Torchlight Series

In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.

October 8, 2017

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Thirty-One Tiny Failures and One Labyrinth: On Parenting and Writing

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by Oliver de la Paz | Contributing Writer

June 27, 2018
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How to Listen to Water

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Michelle Peñaloza on Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Oceanic

May 15, 2018
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November 8, 2018

Burn It: Two Debuts in Review

Julia Bouwsma on Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin and Erin Hoover’s Barnburner

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October 17, 2018

Who Will Carry Us?

Jane Wong on Nicholas Gulig's Orient

by Staff
October 2, 2018

To Mutate is to Live

R.M. Haines on Dawn Lundy Martin's Good Stock Strange Blood

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September 24, 2018

Lighter for the Floating

Michele Sharpe on Melissa Stein's Terrible Blooms

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Interview // I Frequently Write Against Myself: A Conversation with Ching-In Chen

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by Justin Yau-Luu | Contributing Writer

September 30, 2018
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Interview // I Entered Into Unknowing: A Conversation with Forrest Gander

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by Meryl Natchez | Contributing Writer

September 14, 2018
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Featuring poems by Quenton Baker, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Linda Bierds, Jeffrey Harrison, Dorianne Laux, Arra L. Ross, Sanki Saito, Alexandra Teague, Molly Tenenbaum, Michael Torres, Devon Walker-Figueroa, & more

June 22, 2018

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SRIKANTH REDDY Voyager, Book 3 (Chapter 6)Certainly life / burned inside him.September 26, 2018

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