“Encountering Shepherd’s essay as a younger poet, I recall being eager to wrestle with the unspoken challenge asserted by this sharp, studied elder. How do I write the city?”
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A carpet of moss exhales inside an abandoned temple. A lone figure scrapes grime from a row of...
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Will Musgrove approaches the topic of grief obliquely, from a narrator who imagines a memorial service they don’t attend.
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She’s a healthy mussel. . . . She’s a wicked mussel. She’s a sliver of the liver of a river whose...
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong welcomes us to a library where artists mourn, and collaborate with, mussels who may be extinct.
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A sonnet about plants that almost feel sentient, in a meditation on longing.
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Web exclusive: Julie Marie Wade’s essay on a childhood friend’s family and the ways they surprised her.
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A poem for those experiencing climate anxiety, with an unexpected turn in the changing environment
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Rebecca Griswold shares a playlist to accompany her poem in issue 21.1, “The Forager’s Guide.”
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In this piece, Patricia Newbery explores the nexus between memory, time, and space.
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