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iii. The bank is barren and slick in Colorado, pieces of granite and sandstone, no sediment to get your boot stuck in. The water is cold, holding trout of all … Read the rest
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Cho Ji Hoon
Translated by Sekyo Nam Haines Temple Bell The way ripe fruits drop from branches, sounds of temple bell drop from empty space. Where sounds fall, they burst into light and … Read the rest
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Guest Editor Chris Boucher
Fiction Selections I feel very fortunate to celebrate the work of Beth Alvarado and David Ryan, both of whose work I’ve been quietly astounded by for years, in this West … Read the rest
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“Do not turn yr face from this”: On the Poetry of Toby Martinez de las Rivas
By Kylan Rice A poem with lines is a body of cuts. It’s riven throughout with breaks and caesurae and patterns of stress. In contrast to prose, a poem has … Read the rest
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Christine Gosnay
The Morning Lying still under a swift fan, I understand significance. By a window you have also lain formless, in a warmth and in a passing rain. Categories line the … Read the rest
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C.B. Anderson
The Tide, the Milky Way, You 1 The storm brings heavy rain and wind so strong the house shudders. The tide surges onto the road. Another record high. By morning … Read the rest
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George Guida
Away From the FringeDisease of Kings, by Anders Carlson-Wee. W.W. Norton & Co., 112 pp., $26.95. Anders Carlson-Wee has established himself as a poet of contingency. His debut collection, The Low Passions… Read the rest
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Nur Turkmani
My Sister’s Manfrom West Branch 104 Print Issue My sister is a serial dater. This year alone, a dozen lovers nested around her apartment like cheap furniture, taking up space and accumulating … Read the rest
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