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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.

JENNY MOLBERG
Expecting

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I want love & not fear but these are the same.

DAVID HERNANDEZ
Fall All Leaves All Fall

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It’s called The Lazarus Lift, this trick.

CHRISTINE SHAN SHAN HOU
Playground

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It is not possible to live your best
Life in a tunnel

OCTAVIO QUINTANILLA
Sin inglés, sin amigos, sin madre:
a micro-memoir

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the snarling
of your thinking

JOHN OKRENT
Corona Sonnets

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The fish market is closed.
The café is closed. The bar is closed.
The daffodils are heedless.

PAGE HILL STARZINGER
Contraction

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What is secreted. Do you see
that life will become a thing made of holes.

JASON KOO
How Do You Say Burrito Supreme?

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All around me I sit in this
translation.

LAUREN SCHLESINGER
Wenatchee Ferry

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the inner sound and peril
common to any public vessel

GARRETT HONGO
Beaches

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where there’s depth enough to swirl, pivoting,
buoyed in a silva-tint of waters

LISA OLSTEIN & LAUREN HALDEMAN
from Pain Studies

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A set of questions, I suppose;
how do we feel what we feel, and why?