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Two Poems
Emmalea Russo
‘I cannot look at you as I cannot look directly at the sun without my hand / covering my eyes’
Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia
‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’
Three Poems
Vivek Narayanan
‘half-sunk / into ground for all those years / of negative subsistence’
In Conversation
Anthony Caleshu & Peter Gizzi
‘Words are haunted. Think of it: as long as there have been soldiers there have been poets. I have often felt that being a poet is a form of civil disobedience.’
Children in Tactical Gear
Peter Mishler
‘we watched the last / very colorful weapons / coming ashore’
Thrive: A Lyric Sequence
Jill Bialosky
‘Sometimes we could not see / anything before us. That’s what it / required.’
Tissue
Tishani Doshi
‘Even if you could walk through the corridors / of your body, you would not know which rooms / to enter, which were full of stone.’
