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Ghazal in the Year of Corona

What can I do to stay clear of Corona? How can I not draw too near to Corona? Praying that someday we’ll all meet again And not ...
On August 2, 2020 / By Lesléa Newman
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Pandemics and Pasta: Sustenance in the Viral Age

Tonight, I am roasting ripe Heirloom tomatoes with onions, garlic, and olive oil in a 400-degree-oven while a blend of mushrooms, garlic, and white wine bubbles in a ...
On July 21, 2020 / By Cindy Sams
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Onion Skin

Day 6, coronavirus quarantine, 6 pm: You stand over the kitchen sink, a large onion in your left hand, a Global Sai kitchen knife in your right hand. ...
On July 14, 2020 / By Judy Sandler
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My Rabid Boy

after Yehuda Amichai My rabid boy: Each evening he thrashes my fancy, catches my every idea in his teeth. He tears them. I am his woodland. I ...
On July 9, 2020 / By Dan Rosenberg
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Figures

I recently learned two bits of news that chilled me marrow-through: my childhood skating rink is going to be torn down and Madrid is using a skating rink ...
On July 7, 2020 / By Gayle Brandeis
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This Too Shall Pass

Whatever your youngest relation says to do do it without question. If she hands you an empty bottle to wish inside then whisper whatever you can imagine. You ...
On June 25, 2020 / By Jeffrey Perkins
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Reading Sontag When Life is Sci-Fi

I’ve never been able to read much non-fiction, always lamented my impatience for it. And yet now I find I’m unable to put down Sontag’s collection from the ...
On June 23, 2020 / By Jasmine Sealy
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Mise en Place

Could this be madness, this? ~Sylvia Plath Beyond all dusky upstairs rooms, their doors fastened tight, locked by skeleton keys I’ve lost in some drawer of the mind, ...
On June 16, 2020 / By Katie Fesuk
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Outlander Blues

after quarantine binge-watching I did not stay up to pen a poem while screening Scottish history slipshod neo-porn with unaccented moans. This series has got me going five ...
On June 14, 2020 / By Artress Bethany White
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Volcano

Roman is running the LA marathon. It’s no touch. No high fives. No kissing. It’s the time of the virus. What might have been if the world ...
On June 14, 2020 / By Jeffrey Perkins
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Thousands Stood Behind Her, Arms Raised in a “V”

I. “I saw Grandma Rosie,” he said, referring to his mother, who’d been dead for two years. I remained visibly calm. I’d flown to Baltimore early to manage ...
On June 6, 2020 / By Sara Walpert Foster
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How to Make a No-Sew Coronavirus Mask From a Poem*

After you’ve read this poem, place it on your kitchen table From the top of the poem, fold down a flap of your fear; from the bottom, a ...
On June 1, 2020 / By Wendy Drexler