“Of Mneme” by Miriam Bird Greenberg
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“Self-Portrait as the Last Wounded Stag” by Gavin Yuan Gao
I’m walking into the quickening blizzardas if into a hunter’s dream— the flint arrow through my...
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Translations of Alcman and Callimachus by Dan Beachy-Quick
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Blackifying Stories
I noted that I’d been writing the stories I wanted, kind of, but I’d also been including other people’s ideas of blackness. I started writing stories that contradicted some folks’s view of blackness but felt true to my actual world and my created ones.
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miCRo: “No Horses” by Erin Slaughter
The first line in Erin Slaughter’s poem “No Horses” is an answer to an unasked question: “Because giving pleasure is less vulnerable / than receiving.” In a tangle of image and interruption, the poem circles an unspoken force.
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miCRo: “Compensation” by Ken Poyner
In “Compensation,” Ken Poyner shows us how improbable relationships can become possible once we accept that complexity can be as beautiful as harmony.
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On Reading
We’d like to recognize our editorial assistants, the volunteer readers who contribute their time and cognitive energies to our literary endeavor, without payment. We’d also like to share some of the kinds of comments that happen throughout the reading process
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Why We Like It: “Next to Us: Sonnets, Divided” by Lis Sanchez
In “Next to Us: Sonnets Divided,” Sanchez skillfully considers what it means to be both simultaneously inside and outside acts of violence.
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miCRo: “The Therapist Asks, How Does the Brain Feel” by Prince Bush
“The Therapist Asks, How Does the Brain Feel” is an evolving answer, a rickety list, a masterclass in the semicolon.
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miCRo: Two microfictions by Matt Greene
Matt Greene’s microfictions take up the generation-defining question: how do we make sense of our place within an eroding world?
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