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Translated from the Spanish by Allison A. deFreeseLa Buitrera: Memories, ChildhoodsClarity gradually succumbs to whispers that give back memoriesturned African tulips.I had to wipe my fists clean,filled as they were ...

Three Poems from Notations in Jade by Edinson Aladino Translated by Allison A. deFreese

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I look out my classroom windowand clock the empty air where atree stood for the first decade ofmy career.I once wrote a poem aboutsquirrels scurrying around itsboughs and trunk, but thosesquirrels turned up roadkill in ...

For My Students Who Wrote Poems Using ChatGPT This Year by Dante Di Stefano

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Desire & longing is the through line in a life. Who was I reading Emerson’s essays in my twenties & then heading off hopeful to Hollywood from the Midwest to try & sell a television script that I wrote in ...

Ten Kisses by Arlene Tribbia

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Can You See Me? An Essay on Disguise and Reinvention Chameleons have always fascinated me—how they vanish into their surrounding, flickering between a catalogue of selves. They are one of nature’s most magical ...

Can You See Me? by Abbigail N. Rosewood

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Sentence by Mikhail Iossel Review by John Mwazemba Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing ISBN: 978-1-77390-174-9 Publication Date: August 1, 2025 Pages: 197 pages   Sentence by Mikhail Iossel: Existence, Nostalgia and ...

Sentence by Mikhail Iossel Review by John Mwazemba

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Jordan Road, Hong KongIn a room at a small hotel on Jordan Road,you press into me, face red and out of breath.I lie, tell you, you got it, you don’t needto fight so hard, you can slow down,you are liberated, you are ...

Two Poems by Hsu Pei-Fen Translated by Jonathan Pyner

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It’s hard not to think, especially here, that the river must be burning.In the meantime some men & women are paid to count everything.Fire where the fire should be, in the place of the sun. It’s about ...

SITTING BEFORE J.M.W. TURNER’S BURNING OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN THE CLEVELAND ART MUSEUM by G.C. Waldrep

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“Mystery at the Bagni Piero Beach Club” (from Vanity Fair, August 14, 2024) The corpse washed up at the Bagni Rosina Beach Club in Forte dei Marmi aboard a pink air bed. It was a man, maybe seventy years old, face ...

A Short Story by Giacomo Papi Translated by Michela Martini & Elizabeth McKenzie

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Handmade pottery? Wasn’t God the only real potter? Pinch of earth, wasn’t that how he made Man? And Woman? Creatures, his earth, his religion binding it all together?  Here, a lady potter, trying to copy him! She ...

Lady Potter by Rebecca Pyle

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