“Gone Are the Blackberries, the Alycha, the Asters, and the Rusty Spigot” by Yekaterina Droog
I remember the summer after Chernobyl for its fertility and vibrant colors. Whether it was due to...
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Category: Samples
excerpt from “Wait It Out” by Hadley Moore
Now you need not die again, but still I wish you were here—Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale...
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“Haibun” by Malik Thompson
A carpet of moss exhales inside an abandoned temple. A lone figure scrapes grime from a row of...
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“Notes from Underwater” by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
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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excerpt from “We Fry Reggae” by Karen Maner
On a Friday in June 2022 the nurse practitioner warned my husband, Brad, and me that it might be...
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from “Adam’s Rib: Trans without Medicine” by Jay Sibara
As a child, I puzzled over the biblical story of Eve’s creation from one of Adam’s ribs: “And the...
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“His Body,” by Christine Hale
in the ER, on the gurney, white-sheeted, not yet cold. I fall on him. The husk of him. Still...
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“Writing When the World’s a Mess” by Weijia Pan
(To use the PDF embedder to see all pages of the poem, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand...
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“Irritable Reaching Syndrome” by James Davis May
There was so much quicksandin the movies when I was a kid,so that’s what I think of as I watchan...
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“It’s passé to put cigarettes in a poem, but all I ever do is smoke” by Isaac Pickell
The 14A District Court stands near the cornerof Washtenaw and Carpenter, presiding overthe busiest...
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“Art after War” by Oksana Maksymchuk
Luminous—the ink you pouraround bullet holesto paint blooms pain turned topetals, terror—tostyle...
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from “Myths: A Sonnet Crown” by Luisa A. Igloria
1 On All-You-Can-Eat A sentence is not always a consequence waiting to happen.The edges of the...
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