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June 2024

Cover Artist: Lynne Yun at Space Type

The poets have emerged! The poets have emerged!

Joe Carrick-Varty
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  • Isabela Agosa
  • Edward Salem
  • Jackie Sabbagh
  • Ahn Joo Cheol
  • Kwame Dawes
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From this Issue
    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Crown

      By Gboyega Odubanjo
      head permed heavy because rain don’t dare touch us.
      on certain mornings you can hear it deep in conversation
      with itself. i can’t the rain says. for it is written that so long
      as the oils of scorched earth red to the root...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Prodigal Daughter

      By Erika L. Sánchez
      Every day is yesterday 
      & like the loneliness 
      of water, I have always 
      existed. My body brackets
      a quiver in a world that doesn’t 
      love us. Despite the tyrants, 
      the “I” is forever 
      insatiable. Alone in Spain once, 
      I ran out of money & 
      for days ate nothing
      but eggs....

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Perennial

      By Patricia Guzman
      First spring rain and I can’t begin a line like this again
      without remembering  you were here this time last year.

      When I think of  being a mother, my mind goes blank
      like a mountain. How little I know about things that grow

      no...

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Table of Contents

Poems
Hard Feelings
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