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Category: Proof

  • Lloyd Wallace
    Human Limitations

    Public Abstract, by Jane Huffman. American Poetry Review, 196 pp., $16. Jane Huffman’s Public Abstract, selected by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman Award, begins with … Read the rest

  • Split the Lark:
    Shara Lessley on Contemporary Poetry

    New Art on Old Ground: Irish Women Poets Savage Tales, by Tara Bergin. Carcanet, 208 pp., $22.99.In Her Jaws, by Rosamund Taylor. Banshee Press, 80 pp., €10.00.… Read the rest

  • Madeleine Bazil

    Short Film (I) Pleasure is cold fruit, the choice to eat it. See me, aperture wide, that I appear to be sprawled across the quaternary, elaborately a part of the … Read the rest

  • Sara Keramati

    Ace of Cups Tonight I asked the cards whether we should have children and pulled five strands of water to hold. Will you say yes? And I want to— There … Read the rest

  • Patrick Dundon

    Into the Iron I was born onto a mirror. For a moment, there were two of me: the one crying, and the one who only looked like he was. The … Read the rest

  • Jana Putrle Srdić

    co-translated with Sue Vickerman The crushed-shell beach, dazzling white I have two amazing recurring dreams. In the first I’m flying over an island, or maybe it’s the coast, there’s a … Read the rest

  • George Guida
    Away From the Fringe

    Disease 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 Man

    from 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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