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Dionne Irving
Nature Made The biblical story of the tower a Babel was one that always fascinated me, so much so that, if it were the subject of the lesson in Sunday … Read the rest
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Jane Wong
In the Future, the Garden Grows Over Everything In the future, the garden grows over everything, sweet potato vines kissing windshield wipers, pollen painting a factory of sneakers, nasturtium peppering… Read the rest
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Tomás Q. Morín
This Lie Was Made for You and Me The City I and The City II are a pair of paintings by Vincent Valdez. They are a part of the permanent … Read the rest
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C.J.A.
Things of ValueA review of four new books by C.J.A. “In my recent reading practice, I have been paying almost obsessive attention to the word thing …”
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Sarah Heying
Electric Rapture at the House of Tin GodsSarah Heying is currently working on a PhD in Oxford, MS. She received her MFA from McNeese State University, and her short stories have previously appeared in The Greensboro Review, Broken Pencil, Kestrel, and elsewhere.
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Bruce Snider
Sestinamerica: Poetic Form in the Age of TrumpBruce Snider is the author of three poetry collections: Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press (2020); Paradise, Indiana (Pleiades Press, 2013); and The Year We Studied Women (University of Wisconsin, 2003).
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Marginalia: G.C. Waldrep on Jane Gregory & Friederike Mayröcker
Yeah No, by Jane Gregory. The Song Cave, 112 pp., $17.95.Scardanelli, by Friederike Mayröcker. The Song Cave, 72 pp., $17.95. The Song Cave made its small-press debut … Read the rest
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Corey Van Landingham
American Originality, in Three DebutsCorey Van Landingham, a contributing editor, is the author of Antidote and the recipient of a 2017 NEA fellowship. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she currently teaches at the University of Illinois and is a book review editor for Kenyon Review.
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Kylan Rice
Lyric Concord: On Political PoetryThe Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance, by Philip Metres. University of Michigan Press, 216 pp., $29.95. Someone Shot My Book, by Julie Carr. University of Michigan … Read the rest
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Introduction by Aracelis Girmay
Audre Lorde. Sandra María Esteves. Lucille Clifton. Mariposa. Harryette Mullen. Suheir Hammad. These are some of the poets I see Urantia Ramirez and Shaina Jones walking beside and after. And of course the countless poets in their lines whose names I do and do not know: to them I throw my flowers and give thanks.
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