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May/June 2021 • Vol. XLIII No. 3 • Poetry |

Outer Lands

By Bill Carty

I’ll tell you the story. I was walking
the outer edge of the outer lands

where sporadic signs staked in dunes
warned to keep distant from the mammals;

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Bill Carty is the author of Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019), which was long-listed for the Believer Book Award. He has received poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Artist Trust, Hugo House, and Jack Straw. Originally from coastal Maine, Bill now lives in Seattle, where he is senior editor at Poetry Northwest and teaches at Hugo House, the UW Robinson Center for Young Scholars, and Edmonds College.

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By Hussain Ahmed

The water remained blue across centuries of swallowing. Because it is not a cemetery, it does not date its memories.On the sky is a diary that cataloged eyes lost to […]

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