Poetry
free verse copper wires gnawed bareas thick as a little finger ready for scrapthat’s the best of what’s in my poems and
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Up yonder, the sky yawns openwide in a downpour. I suck greedy on the silken stem of one last God-white honeysuckle blossom
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* * * * * * * * * * Each morning before breakfast my grandfather walked to the edge of the yard to raise the flag, to fly its colors near
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Accumulated through the season, like black exhauston white snow, winter cruelties linger—a dirtyepidermal merengue sealing in all that wouldotherwise melt within us;
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When I wear sunglasses all day, I forget what the world actually looks like There is a pool with an ocean view.
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To think there is such a thingas a good dayis to neglect the sun’s eternal indifferenceto the clouds and fogthat bottle it
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On the morning of 9/11, six hours before the first plane would crash into the north tower, my cousin woke up and
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I loathed the place from the first hour — indeed, I loathed it even before I had stepped across its threshold, which
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Driving through a cold spring drizzle, I noticed a young woman, smoking. She was standing under the eaves of a non-descript office
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Somewhere in the endless spill of yellow sand between Phoenix and Tucson, we drove in silence, the roar of the long highway
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PLCAA: Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. Broad immunity granted to gun manufacturers and dealers. An impenetrable legal shield. And by
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Dad teaches me how to make rice: “Measure the rice with your heart, then fill the water to your knuckle.” The tap
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Our first date is at an Italian restaurant in the Upper East Side with fake brick walls. The waiter sits us down
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All things considered, it is a comedy about fruit. People travel from miles around to buy produce from the
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When we came out of our apartment the humidity punched us in the face like we’d unsealed a wind tunnel or opened
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At Sunday lunch, Jim’s dad almost chokes on a mouthful of mashed potatoes. His mom said she wanted to visit her sister
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Was it the size—the width of wings, veined & spread, of abdomen, antenna—that invitedyour gentlest reach? Even through my tinted windows, rolling
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Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Descanso for My Father (2012), Presentimiento (2016), and Finding Querencia: Essays from In Between (2022).
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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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