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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
“Kyrie’s sonnets aren’t only in conversation with historical events … but with the history of verse itself.”
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Tara Isabel Zambrano
Our Sons Wrote, Glorious Days Are About To ComeCW: Conflict Zone Violence After guerilla training in the mountains, our sons came back with machine guns and grenades, their cheeks soft-grizzled, their gaze scorched like Siachen glacier in sunlight, … Read the rest
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Nick Sabolik
Before We Stopped Speaking; EnoughBefore We Stopped Speaking I once watched my friend fall from a height of thirty stories and live. Well, not live, but you know what I mean. At first I … Read the rest
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Alison Braid
CarpetThe widower paid for the abortion, but he wouldn’t come with her. Olive called Susannah from the clinic after it was all over. Olive spoke into the phone and then … Read the rest
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Survival Songs
By David Roderick Oh You Robot Saints!, by Rebecca Morgan Frank. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 96 pp., $15.95.Year of the Dog, by Deborah Paredez. BOA Editions, 122 … Read the rest
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Katie Condon
Who Here Has Heard of Ether? The meadow was like a child, hip-height and wild. The moths had no hope for holding onto any shadow, let alone their own, which … Read the rest
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Elane Kim
Transit I want more small kindnesses: glass stained in every direction, the windows stacked tall, a looping stop. Pick a side already: the sky or the sea. More rain or … Read the rest
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Tamas Panitz
Within a Secret Cloud Where to grow my orchid that will last for a thousand years … big decisions take many tiny minds– like Dracula in his den my persecutors … Read the rest
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Jessica Guzman
Post-Storm Assessment I spray X on my front door. I set the table, plastic on plastic, secured by stone. Two days after the hurricane, I grill freezer burned flanks … Read the rest
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Conor Bracken
Firstborn A day after the afterbirth’s been rubbed off your head (“like a coconut with injured sentience,” dark-haired and howling) we call you Everett, which means, we learn, brave as … Read the rest
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