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Amanda Hartzell

“The View is not the Route” “Elegies are not symphonies” “Verbena” Amanda Hartzell AMANDA HARTZELL is a writer, artist, and mom. She is the author of two poetry books, The Heart Never...

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Nataliia Burmaka

“The Golden Net” “The Mallows (Nostalgia)” Nataliia Burmaka NATALIIA BURMAKA graduated from the National Studio of Fine Arts of Boris Danchenko (Sumy, Ukraine) in 1999 and worked...

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Lullaby for an Adult

Peter Vertacnik           –after Patric Dickinson All the doors are locked. The dog’s been walked.  Each tap, each burner off. No dome-light glows in the garage.  Through that...

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Thirst Trap For L’Inconnue De La Seine

RJ Equality Ingram           For Wesley Gibson Often I have imagined myself arguingSoftly w/ the wind & wake the way oarsSlip in & out of the murk barely a splashA quiet night on an...

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clove hitch

p. hodges adams2023 Greg Gummer Prize Runner-Up come hear me, in my twenty-fifth yeari stopped having sex with gender i meanmy lovers all favored the vestibule of language outside the party i mean i...

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I am Creating a New Drug

J.C. Rodriguez By rolling together gray hairs, capers, nettles, & tuna in a page ripped from an old tabloid. A tube seared into existence from burnt dust & browned butter. It’s smokable,...

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The Rowan Berries of Winter

Phillip Crymble ——— for Robert Lowell   At Roosevelt, the orderlies were forced to break your wrists — the large brown-paper parcel  that you clutched against your breastbone heldin place...

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On a Desert Planet

Robin Babb “Utopia is uninhabitable. As soon as we reach it, it ceases to be utopia. As evidence of this sad but ineluctable fact, may I point out that we in this room, here and now, are inhabiting...

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Not Quite Stranded

Brookes Moody While I might not have been in the exact emotional state of Lester Bangs, “nerves shredded and ghosts and spiders looming and squatting across the mind,” there was a time I too...

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A River’s Continuum

Celia Cummiskey A young Roman woman walks along the bank of the river Tamesis. She is thinking perhaps of her parent’s home some hundreds of miles away from Londinium where she now lives, or of...

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