Poetry
The first girl I kissed pushedme against the serrated brickssame color as her busted lip.Transfer student. Eyes familiar withdarkness akin toMidwestern stormcell—the
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In the beginning was the Word and the Word was as of yet undefined. The Word had freckles across the bridge of
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my last meal as a girl I dined onsnow. the sky snared my teethbut everyone pretended not to see. the snow was
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It does not matter if you’re rich in life, As long as you’re rich in heaven. My father, in heaven, smokes Camels. In the
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As a child a painted turtle found me, so I made a cage for him, but by the next morning he had
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here’s a story about the woman i love: in
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Well met, well met, my ain true love/
well met, well met, cried he
Bermuda grass is a weed, in my mind. Something unwanted, with a root system extending 35 feet down into the bowels of
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What happens inside this high school classroom is the one thing she promises never to write about.
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Walking home around 4PM last fall, I spotted a can in the middle of the sidewalk. Strikingly silver and apparently full, since
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It’s easier and faster to cross into Mexico on foot. Park on the U.S. side, tuck a passport into a pocket, and
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The skin on my thumb is worn and beginning to blister. It has been pressed hard against the metal edge of the
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On the beach just by the power plant, Brett told us about the Prick Garden: “There’s a rabbi,” he said, “just back
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People described my father as a navy man, distilling his entire life into two words: NAVY. MAN. But I never heard him
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My dear, I think you’ll make a fine Attic Ghost. You seem destined for the slow creak of floorboards in a sleeping
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Winner of the Sonora Review Issue 77 Fiction Contest, selected by Rebecca Makkai
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According to Jan Krufka of Hard Facts Magazine, my studio apartment was a musty, dank lair. He told his readers about the
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The Arrest, in all its surreal narrative trappings, supercars, and Hollywood theatrics, wants to know if words can save us in a
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Speaking to the The Guardian as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 (a prize he later won), Hungarian writer
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By Abby Dockter I am on another plane trip. Patchwork farms, webs of highways, wide rivers and furry green mountains, all pierced
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Animal Collection – I grasp for words to describe it. It is modern. It is postmodern. It is fables. It is magical
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The beginning of Anthropologies feels like something you’ve remembered before—a frail mother recounts stories for a middle-aged daughter. But then, the daughter
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Jon Riccio interviews Samuel Rafael Barber about his new book, Thousands of Shredded Scraps of Paper Located Across Five Landfills, That if
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Jon Riccio interviews Robert Carr about his new book, The Unbuttoned Eye.
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"I feel that one of my missions in life is to chip away at the idea of human exceptionalism, the idea that
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Venita Blackburn, author of the short story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes (her 2017 debut, published as a result of her
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CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New
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What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m drawn to forms animated by
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