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Aram Mrjoian
The RangeOur son returned to the mountaintop dirt-stained and soaking wet, no backpack, his clothes torn with jagged maws of fabric, blond hair in a muddy clump. As he punched his … Read the rest
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Laura Villareal
Mythmaking in Three DebutsSwallowed Light, by Michael Wasson. Copper Canyon Press, 96 pp., $17. Philomath, by Devin Walker-Figueroa. Milkweed Editions, 104 pp., $16. Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking, by C.T. Salazar. … Read the rest
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Shara Lessley
One Vast Shadow: The Poetry of (Self)PerspectiveBrocken Spectre, by Jacques Rancourt. Alice James Books, 100 pp., $18.95.West Portal, by Benjamin Gucciardi. Unviersity of Utah Press, 64 pp., $14.95.The Curious Thing, by Sandra … Read the rest
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An Interview with Katy Didden
“But there’s a lot that’s disturbing in the world right now, and the more I quiet my mind, the more I can discern what matters.”
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Tomaž Šalamun
Translated by Matthew Moore Bava’s No Fun I had three sons and five daughters. They were chained up in the woods. Buddha passed them. He ate a plum. With his… Read the rest
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Kimberly Alidio
A dense field of sound, a relaxation, a reading of space an expansive internalization of projection in a room or on a street, a texture of internal-external perceptual activity, the … Read the rest
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James Swansbrough
Last Time we had to stretch her out flat on the living room ottoman & I had to straddle her chest with my legs to pin her arms at her … Read the rest
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Luci Huhn
Explaining to My Nephews How the Lake Turns Over I don’t like that they’re headed down two highways in opposite directions, away from me, their cars packed to the gills. … Read the rest
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