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Four Poems

Geoffrey Nutter

Four poems by Geoffrey Nutter.

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Genealogy

Kayo Chingonyi

A new poem by Kayo Chingonyi from the forthcoming collection A Blood Condition.

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Three poems

Verity Spott

‘I’m better now, & time spreads away / across the flood.’

Three new poems from Verity Spott.

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Two Poems

Khairani Barokka

‘a powerful blast ignited in their latest attempt to grow lives in the dirt of your online receipt, human blood carries all kinds of filigreed debris’

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from Affiliation

Mira Mattar

‘on our knees in bathrooms internationally / dependent on a disguise of sovereignty’

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Two Poems

Wendy Xu

‘Somewhere in America a white boss / in a dandelion dress-shirt is raising / his voice again’

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Three Poems

Najwan Darwish

‘I’m not dead yet / so why are the mourners here?’

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In Medias Res

Jesse Darling

‘I walk the broken line like I once walked into the bar’

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On a Farm near Junction City

Nate Duke

‘broiled thoughts / cool in labor’s mute thrum’

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Naming

Jason Allen-Paisant

‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’

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Two Poems

Holly Pester

‘Abuse is the conjuring of madness’

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Four Poems

Sylvia Legris

‘Carboniferous cockroach. / Gregarious cockroach.’

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Two Poems

sam sax

‘grief is an animal. we all know that. but which animal / exactly? what kingdom, what family, is it ever a fish?’

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Best Book of 1891: The Birds of Manitoba

Sylvia Legris

‘During the pandemic, birds (along with many insects and wild plants) have landed in my life and poems again.’

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