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Issue 154

In Medias Res

Jesse Darling

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

Issue 154

On a Farm near Junction City

Nate Duke

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

Issue 154

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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Two Poems

Jason Allen-Paisant

‘in iron lignum vitae / wind and leaves / keep memory’

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Top Reads 2020 | Poetry

Our most popular poetry of 2020.

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Two Poems

Amit Chaudhuri

‘It was chick peas that kept you alive.’

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Withstances

Rowan Evans

‘yours is no magic    is only wyrm sickness’

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Third Eclogue of the Vegetable Garden

John Kinsella

‘What you don’t know set / against all you want to know’

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Projects Not Realized

Nate Duke

‘in the noon dark I miss my landing’

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Two Poems

Kim Min Jeong

‘You think I like being called Cherry / because your cat’s named Cherry?’

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