Sandra Simonds

‘Police brutality makes me want to starve / myself to death and loneliness / is a drag’

Daniel Poppick

‘Over an exit, and deeply dreaming / A guard brutally splayed’

Astrid Alben

‘High up in atmosphere, vertigo intact inside Vodka & Lime’

Solmaz Sharif

‘To step out of my door and hope to see something like a life, something passably me.’

Tyehimba Jess

‘Let me tell you how / white hands kilned me / in the moonless middle / of night.’

Rae Armantrout

‘Because children suspect that objects conceal their powers and intentions, animators make an alarm clock run, screaming, in circles.’

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Jaan Kaplinski

‘I don’t remember whether I believed that I could just / abandon one life to begin another’

Issue 134

Eliza Griswold

Solmaz Sharif

‘Full or empty / was impossible to see.’

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Matthew Welton

‘what it is about the earth / that it won’t absorb the stream’

Don Mee Choi

‘Watch this performance carefully, for you are witnessing a new concept of modern warfare.’

Noelle Kocot

‘the problematic / Ocean spreads itself out. We take it in stride, / And we do our best.’

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Ange Mlinko

‘the victim of a mythological punishment.’

Noelle Kocot

‘What I am equipped to do is different / Than what I have been called for.’