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Jan/Feb 2021
Vol. XLIII No. 1
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2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
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Misha Rai
Short Fiction Contest Introduction -
Janika Oza
Fish Stories -
Steffi Sin
Dungeness -
Stanley Delgado
Cactus Eater
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Misha Rai
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Fiction
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Rachel Heng
Coffins Patch -
Nay Saysourinho
The Queen of Sheba -
Holly Tavel
Beach Town -
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Percy
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Rachel Heng
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Nonfiction
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Sonya Larson
Learning to Be a Panda -
Ian Williams
Two Eyes, a Nose, and a Mouth
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Sonya Larson
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Poetry
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Victoria Bosch Murray
Silphium -
Diane Seuss
From this bench I like to call my bench I sit -
Diane Seuss
I’ve lived with death from the beginning, at the edge -
Vievee Francis
1965 -
Vievee Francis
Juneteenth (#3) -
Michael Coppola
Orient Point -
Jenny Xie
Unit of Measure -
Jenny Xie
Expenditures -
Jenny Xie
Memory Soldier -
Jennifer Elise Foerster
From “The Maybe-Bird” -
Lee Sharkey
X -
Aaron Smith
Stone Jesus
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Victoria Bosch Murray
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Out Loud
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Nov/Dec 2020
Vol. XLII No. 6
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Fiction
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Nancy Zafris
The Zimmerman Trees -
T. C. Boyle
These Are the Circumstances -
Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
The Snake Priest -
Misha Rai
Twenty Years Ago
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Nancy Zafris
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Nonfiction
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Roger Rosenblatt
From “Unaccompanied Minor” -
Geeta Kothari
Stay -
Dinty W. Moore
The Burning Bush -
Rebecca McClanahan
Excerpts from
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Roger Rosenblatt
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Poetry
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David Baker
Four Poses -
Kimiko Hahn
On Viscera -
Kimiko Hahn
The Earth’s Day -
Kimiko Hahn
Seeing to Etiquette -
Natalie Shapero
Five by Seven -
G. C. Waldrep
American Goshawk -
Carl Phillips
Of California -
Wyatt Prunty
Compulsive Insistence upon Repetition in the Face of Reasoned Opposition -
Wyatt Prunty
String River -
Mary Szybist
We Think We Do Not Have Medieval Eyes -
Mary Szybist
During the Mammogram I Close My Eyes -
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Inspecting a Region of Converging Territory (Including Parts of Georgia, Alabama, & Tennessee), Which Contains Three Different Places Named “Etowah,” Where I am Trying to Locate the Birthplace of My Paternal Great-Great Grandmother Mahala Anderson Flippin, Who May or May Not Have Been a Cherokee Woman -
Carol Muske-Dukes
Oracle -
Carol Muske-Dukes
House -
Linda Gregerson
Environmental -
David St. John
These Days -
David St. John
Mz Rox Steady -
Meghan O’Rourke
From -
John Kinsella
Establishing a Proximity
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David Baker
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Out Loud
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Sept/Oct 2020
Vol. XLII No. 5
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2020 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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All of This Is True
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Reginald Dwayne Betts
[Introduction] -
Starr Davis
Mourning Sex -
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Something about Failure -
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Golden Corral -
April Gibson
Things to Do in the Belly of a Whale -
Randall Horton
{#289-128} Property of the State -
Randall Horton
{#289-128} Property of the State -
Randall Horton
{#289-128} Property of the State -
Randall Horton
{#289-128} Property of the State -
Jennifer Funk
May -
Teri Ellen Cross Davis
The Goddess of Scars -
Tara Betts
Humidity -
brian g. gilmore
‘what’s that fuss?’ 1979 (for donnell) -
Luke Johnson
Bagging Mallards -
francine j. harris
Michael Moses Ward Has Drowned -
Alírio Karina
o aberto / the open -
Fady Joudah
Sandra Bland, Texas -
Christian Wiman
Reading Augustine on the Elliptical -
Sara Ryan
Origin of the Mapping System -
Sara Ryan
I Have Masturbated Three Days in a Row and Can’t Stop Crying -
Roger Reeves
Which Was to Come -
Roger Reeves
Fragment 107
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Reginald Dwayne Betts
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Fiction
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Samuel Jensen
The Fourth Child -
Dina Nayeri
Bad Faith -
Matthue Roth
The Simple Ones -
Marianne Shaneen
The Mason Jar
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Samuel Jensen
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Out Loud
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July/Aug 2020
Vol. XLII No. 4
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Nonfiction
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Nicola Dixon
Just Like Johnny Cash -
Floyd Collins
Mark Strand
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Nicola Dixon
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Poetry
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Stanley Plumly
Spring Photo -
Dan Beachy-Quick
Canto IV (Fragment Braid) -
Dan Beachy-Quick
Canto IX -
Dan Beachy-Quick
Canto X -
Grace Schulman
Meteor -
Arthur Sze
Acequia del Llano -
Arthur Sze
Pyrocumulus -
Rodney Jones
I Live I Live I Live -
Rodney Jones
About a Quarter Pound of Bologna -
Rodney Jones
In Never Land -
Stephanie Burt
Epigram 57; Epigram 58 -
Stephanie Burt
Epigram 62 -
Stephanie Burt
Epigram 6
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Stanley Plumly
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Temporary and Ongoing
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Angie Cruz
Temporary and Ongoing -
Yalitza Ferreras
You Must Be This Tall -
Samia Ahmed
When They Came for Us -
Katherinna Mar
Paradise Gardens -
Cleyvis Natera
Curandera -
Namrata Poddar
Help Me Help You
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Angie Cruz
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Out Loud
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May/June 2020
Vol. XLII No. 3
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Fiction
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Judy Troy
You Can Figure It Out -
Brianna Johnson
Black-Woman -
Justine Champine
The Widow -
Etkin K.C.
From Which Village Is Your Mother? -
Sanam Mahloudji
Baby Killer
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Judy Troy
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Nature’s Nature 2020
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David Baker
[Introduction] -
Stuart Dischell
Lines along a Wild Place -
Stuart Dischell
Lines about Mountains -
Stuart Dischell
Lines about Rivers, Then the Sea -
Leslie Harrison
Collapse -
Leslie Harrison
The Things They Know -
Leslie Harrison
A Blessing -
Shelley Wong
How to Live in Southern California -
Phillis Levin
Ear of Corn -
Didi Jackson
Two Mule Deer -
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Epithalamion Aubade -
Rebecca Morgan Frank
A Field Guide to Mythological Botany -
Hannah VanderHart
Locusts or Complaint as Protest -
Hannah VanderHart
Poem Beginning with a Line from Claudia Rankine -
Hannah VanderHart
Love as a Succession of Absences -
Nicole Stockburger
In a Bad Year -
Nicole Stockburger
Watermelon -
Joanna Klink
From Night Sky -
Christian Gullette
Giant’s Chair -
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Sumac -
Leslie Adrienne Miller
And the Wild Grapes Do Their Very Bluest -
Devin Johnston
Chester, Illinois -
Stephanie Burt
Iambi IV / 194 -
Carol Muske-Dukes
Monarch -
Madhur Anand
Rising Variance as an Early Warning -
Atsuro Riley
Goldhound -
Elizabeth Bradfield
Permeable -
Elizabeth Bradfield
When One Known to You Dies, the Rearranging of Space and Time Begins -
Paul Guest
Testimonial -
Paul Guest
New Year
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David Baker
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Out Loud
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Mar/Apr 2020
Vol. XLII No. 2
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2019 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest
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Anna Hartford
Hello, Fridge -
KT Sparks
Saving Luna -
Benjamin Garcia
The Great Glass Closet
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Anna Hartford
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Poetry
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Linda Gregerson
Saint Sorry -
Linda Gregerson
Love Poem -
Ted Kooser
Wooly Caterpillar -
Heid E. Erdrich
Red Language -
Destiny O. Birdsong
love poem that ends at popeyes -
Courtney Faye Taylor
The Sky Is a Mess of Horror Exhaust -
Cortney Lamar Charleston
Etymology of Gangsta -
Sally Wen Mao
Playing Dead -
Sally Wen Mao
Ode to Emptiness -
Sally Wen Mao
Ode to Egress -
Michael McGriff
Cortege -
Erin Belieu
Instructions for the Hostage -
Bruce Snider
Fruit -
Bruce Snider
On Billy Lucas, Who Hanged Himself in His Grandmother’s Barn
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Linda Gregerson
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The Unexpected
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Jaquira Díaz
[Introduction] -
Laurie Thomas
The Last Afternoon -
Rebecca Nison
The Unwilding -
LaToya Watkins
Sweat -
Joseph Earl Thomas
Cold War Kirby -
Gabriel Louis
Proverbs -
Lars Horn
With the Moths’ Eyes
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Jaquira Díaz
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Out Loud
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Jan/Feb 2020
Vol. XLII No. 1
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2019 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
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Jena Chapman Andres
Short Fiction Contest Introduction -
Daphne Palasi Andreades
Brown Girls -
Emily Everett
Solitária -
Susan Falco
You Break It, You Own It
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Jena Chapman Andres
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Fiction
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Shoshana Akabas
The Forgetting Diary -
Claire Luchette
Mona Samino -
Aaron Berry Davis
Mercy
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Shoshana Akabas
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Nonfiction
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Martin Philip
The Healing Stone of Mountain Creek -
Alison Townsend
An Excerpt from “An Alphabet of Here: A Wisconsin Prairie Sampler” -
Philip Metres
The Last Soviet Poet
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Martin Philip
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Of Today
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Solmaz Sharif
Of Today -
Ari Banias
Practice -
Carolina Ebeid
I Can’t Hear You When You’re Screaming -
Evie Shockley
can’t unsee -
Daniel Borzutzky
Written after a Massacre in the Year 2018 -
Roger Reeves
Sovereign Silence, or the City -
Roger Reeves
Rich Black, or Best Barbarian -
Marwa Helal
beast of no omissions -
Eleni Sikelianos
Sfakiá to Loutró -
Philip Metres
why are there stars? -
Christopher Kondrich
Ownership of Time
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Solmaz Sharif
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Nov/Dec 2019
Vol. XLI No. 6
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Fiction
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Caio Fernando Abreu
Passing Through a Great Sorrow
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Caio Fernando Abreu
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Nonfiction
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Aminatta Forna
Why I Write -
Diane Glancy
#NoDAPL Protest, North Dakota -
So Mayer
Intimate Alienation, or [blank for your response] -
David Brooks
Writing Animals -
Kim Scott
Writers, Readers, and Activists
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Aminatta Forna
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Poetry
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Brenda Hillman
The American Burying Beetle -
Kwame Dawes
South Carolina, Again -
Kwame Dawes
Lagos -
Kwame Dawes
The Stink -
Sandra Cisneros
This in the News Unmentioned -
Sandra Cisneros
I Should Like to Fall in Love with a Burro Named Saturnino -
Bob Hicok
After You -
Bob Hicok
Sigh -
Carolyn Forché
Water Crisis -
Carolyn Forché
The Last Puppet -
Carolyn Forché
Report from the Island -
Nick Lantz
“Terrific,” “Tremendous,” “Loser,” “Tough,” “Smart,” “Weak,” “Dangerous,” “Great,” “Stupid,” “Classy,” “Big,” “Huge,” “Amazing,” “Lightweight,” “Win,” “Bad,” “Crooked,” “Moron,” “We,” “They,” “Great,” “Zero” -
Nick Lantz
Poem Not Ending with US Border Agents Tear Gassing Migrant Children -
Maria Takolander
Messages from Medellín -
Diane Glancy
Eight-Year Civil War -
David McCooey
Elegy -
Laura Read
Jane Doe 1–9 -
Duriel E. Harris
Dream in Wartime -
Eunice Tiptree
Annunciation in a Windowless Room -
Jennifer Militello
Diffusion of Responsibility -
Adam Giannelli
How to Hear a Stutter -
Adam Giannelli
Stutterfied -
Melissa Studdard
Tour of Grief -
Jorgenrique Adoum
Post No Bills -
Nathaniel Mackey
Song of the Andoumboulou
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Brenda Hillman
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Out Loud
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Sept/Oct 2019
Vol. XLI No. 5
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2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
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Martha Shaffer
Stars -
Jay Martin
November Picnic with Louise -
Stephanie Chang
Post Meridiem
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Martha Shaffer
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Speak Low
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Natalie Shapero
Speak Low -
Emily Spencer
I’m Not Interested -
Naoko Fujimoto
Low Orbit -
Jameson Fitzpatrick
Man with a Movie Camera -
Jennifer L. Knox
Finding a Drawer Full of Drivers’ Licenses -
Roy White
Gawker Slowdown -
Jillian Weise
On Closed Systems -
Nikki Wallschlaeger
William Carlos Williams -
Edwin Alanís-García
Parisian Needles -
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Cut a Hand from a Hand
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Natalie Shapero
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Fiction
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Margot Livesey
Gilbert in Arcadia -
Robert Coover
One Summer (Thomas and Anna)
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Margot Livesey
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Nonfiction
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Sally Wen Mao
On Sparrows -
Brian Trapp
Twelve Words
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Sally Wen Mao
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Out Loud
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July/Aug 2019
Vol. XLI No. 4
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Fiction
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Ariel Delgado Dixon
Please Be Sure -
Valdas Papievis
Echo, or the Sieve of Time -
Kate Berson
Dimensions in adirolF -
Aruni Kashyap
After Anthropology
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Ariel Delgado Dixon
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Nonfiction
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Andrea J. Buchanan
Two Hearts -
Floyd Collins
Richard Wilbur
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Andrea J. Buchanan
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Poetry
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Zaina Alsous
Naturalization -
Zaina Alsous
Can the Dodo Bird Speak? -
Zaina Alsous
An Incomplete Archive of Extinction -
Zaina Alsous
Bird Survives the Death of Nature -
Zaina Alsous
Notes from the Gallery of Evolution -
Stephen Dunn
Pagan Virtues -
Marilyn Hacker
At the Edge of the Forest -
Guy Goffette
The Date -
Guy Goffette
The Farewell -
Emily Yong
Emergency, Christmas Eve -
Emily Yong
Opioid, Alcohol, Despair -
Joshua Bennett
Trash -
Khaled Mattawa
Qassida to the Statue of Sappho in Mytilini -
Khaled Mattawa
Fuel Burns -
Khaled Mattawa
Malouk’s Ode -
Khaled Mattawa
Moria Refugee Camp Journal -
Khaled Mattawa
Psalm of the Volunteer -
Raúl Gómez Jattin
Almost Obscene -
Shelley Wong
As She Appears -
Baiba Bičole
Separated -
David Lehman
Correspondences -
David Lehman
What Kafka Meant
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Zaina Alsous
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Review
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Jeffrey Meyers
Dangerous Edge
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Jeffrey Meyers
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Out Loud
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May/June 2019
Vol. XLI No. 3
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Nature’s Nature
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David Baker
Nature’s Nature -
Stanley Plumly
White Rhino -
Stanley Plumly
Middle Distance -
Garrett Hongo
Passion Fruit -
Paul Otremba
Climate Is Something Different -
Paul Otremba
Doctrine of that Bird Once Worshipped on the Shore -
Yun-fei Ji
Three Works -
Lisa Russ Spaar
Wasp -
Lisa Russ Spaar
Indigo Bunting Madrigal -
Alessandra Lynch
Ire -
Alessandra Lynch
Forest -
Lynn Domina
Do Carnivorous Plants Experience Hunger? -
Bruce Beasley
Sufficient Unto the Day Is the Trouble Thereof -
Bruce Beasley
Argus and Mole -
Sanki Saitō
Three Demons:
Sanki Haiku I -
Eugene Gloria
In the Andes -
John Shoptaw
A Tree’s Shade Speaks of Its Shadow -
Ruth Madievsky
Locusts -
Ruth Madievsky
Ficus -
Sandra Eula Lee
Three Works and a Series -
Chet’la Sebree
Nightingale of America -
Andrea Cohen
Nightshade -
Andrea Cohen
Dust -
Andrea Cohen
Gaucin -
Benjamin S. Grossberg
Catawba -
Benjamin S. Grossberg
In My Forty-Seventh Year -
Caroline Crew
Moon Tree Experiment, Apollo 14 (1971) -
Caroline Crew
The Farmhouse, the Old Barn in the Frame, Faceless Animals in Soft Focus -
Dora Malech
Running in Autumn -
Ted Kooser
Raspberry Patch -
Nathaniel Perry
My Heart in Every Darkness
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David Baker
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Fiction
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Jeffrey Condran
In Costume -
Ali Hosseini
Blue Hills -
Roberto Castillo Sandoval
The Laws of Motion
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Jeffrey Condran
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Review
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Marian Janssen
Two Poets by the Lake
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Marian Janssen
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Out Loud
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Mar/Apr 2019
Vol. XLI No. 2
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Fiction
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Elizabeth Brinsfield
Snow Line -
SA Afolabi
Dear Life -
Eric Gansworth
Secret Identity -
Anzhelina Polonskaya
Oh, Let This Night Never End -
Courtney Sender
For Somebody So Scared -
Tom Noyes
Charles Guiteau, Who Will Hang for the Assassination of President Garfield in 1882, Has Trouble Connecting with Women at Oneida, John Humphrey Noyes’s Free Love Commune, in 1866
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Elizabeth Brinsfield
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Nonfiction
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Mairead Small Staid
By the Skin of Our Teeth
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Mairead Small Staid
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Poetry
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Ben Purkert
I Know a Place Far from Here -
John Kinsella
Red -
Shane McCrae
Jim Limber in Heaven Writes His Name in Water -
Shane McCrae
From the Ground It Must Have Looked Like Its Wings Were Not a Part of It -
Stav Poleg
Are You There? -
Aria Aber
Can You Describe Your Years in Prison? -
Aria Aber
Ode to My Hair -
Caki Wilkinson
43 Sonnet -
Caki Wilkinson
Flyover Country -
Juan Antillón
Tenderly -
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
Easter 1957 -
Ardengo Soffici
Lights of Rome -
Marie-Andrée Gill
Four Poems from Frayer -
Bijan Elahi
Five Scenes from Icarus
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Ben Purkert
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