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SELF-PORTRAIT BEFORE

In the split between two boulders behind the blue and orange playground, the children are building nests for when the hurricane comes ...
On March 20, 2015 / By Anna Ross
Deep End 0
Dear Grace: A Poem from the Department of Justice

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On March 11, 2015 / By Collier Nogues
Poetry
Istvan

To feel fully engulfed in the magical, raw nature of place, of strange polyphonic songs, of pigs and cows and chickens and giant puppets in the barns ...
On March 8, 2015 / By Lauren Haldeman
Poetry
Pastoral

Where did it start? In a city of gardens & muck. When I held someone close, in watery light. We drank & I bled all the way home. ...
On February 14, 2015 / By Kiki Petrosino
Poetry
A Borrowed Copy of Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters

A flutter in the governing hand, and an eleventh finger extending from the other, uncovering an upper register, automatic and after, apex plus, A flat, A flat, E. ...
On January 27, 2015 / By Eric Anderson
Poetry
Young Man Afraid of His Horses

What will keep you from telling it to everyone. What will prevent you from perpetual disclosure: shame or privacy—words or the sense that once said you cannot snatch ...
On January 14, 2015 / By Caryl Pagel
Poetry
Poem in Film

This cocktail you sniffed cost 12 bucks but did make you clairvoyant on your birthday. We sure were sure, weren’t we, your new girl would fall for ...
On December 26, 2014 / By Jack Christian
Poetry
Motion Harmony #3

He undresses her jewel-hard mind ...
On November 30, 2014 / By Jennifer Barber
Arts 1
Allen Ginsberg: An Encounter

When I interviewed Allen Ginsberg I said something right off that startled him, though what I said was simple and not raunchy in the least, as if raunchy ...
On November 24, 2014 / By Harvey Blume
Poetry
Away from my Dream Desk

The machine powers up bad. Time to grow summer, hours of green and forgetting. ...
On November 23, 2014 / By Peter Ramos
Poetry
Crime Shows

I watch crime shows from Norway and Sweden. Wallander and Salamander and others with names I can’t pronounce. I watch crime shows from England with American actors. There are guys who ...
On November 8, 2014 / By Matthew Lippman
Poetry
The Pain Scale

Today is a good day so I can offer or try to offer connective parts like connective tissue, invisible: what extends between us. So it isn’t so much offering as pointing out: ...
On October 24, 2014 / By Julia Story