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Having Recently Escaped from the Maws of a Deathly Life, I Am Ready to Begin the Year Anew
Sandra Cisneros
‘Life is not worth living / without salami.’
A poem by Sandra Cisneros.
It’s Been Evening all day Long
Daniel Khalastchi
‘Just as blank I sink the bank beneath / my grief of never having money.’
A poem by Daniel Khalastchi.
Three Poems
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
‘create a national holiday in your namelessness, in my head.’
Poems from the author’s debut collection Quiet.
Two Poems
Collin Callahan
‘He twists biblical spliffs. / Curtains warble in the television light.’ Two poems by Collin Callahan.
Three Poems
Christopher Soto
‘Instantaneous / Pleasure takes too // Long’
Poetry from Christopher Soto’s collection Diaries of a Terrorist.
Two Poems
Akwaeke Emezi
‘joseph uncle is ghost-quiet / the kind of man you can’t scream at’
Two poems by the author of Dear Senthuran.
Blue Room, Fake Blue Veins
Peter Scalpello
‘[left home rented a room / spinning with mould] it almost turned me / straight.’ A new poem by Peter Scalpello.
Beautiful Short Loser
Ocean Vuong
‘For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’
A new poem by Ocean Vuong.
Lecture on Loneliness
Claire Schwartz
‘Only history makes her lonely, only after makes her first.’
A poem by Claire Schwartz.
Two Poems
Emily Berry
‘I do not see / the slow wheels in my blood turning, but / I ride them’
Two poems by Emily Berry.
