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Small Altars by Justin Gardiner Review by Amilya Robinson Publisher: Tupelo Press Publication Date: 04/03/24 ISBN-13: 978-1-961209-06-0 Pages: 67 In the Shadow of Heroes: A Review of Justin Gardiner’s Small ...

Small Altars by Justin Gardiner Review by Amilya Robinson

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                Dani Blackman’s short prose has most recently appeared in Bellingham Review, Fractured Lit, Citron Review, Epiphany, Witness, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Reynolds Price ...

Dear Dopamine by Dani Blackman

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I’m suspended in the chair, trapped in a staring contest with my own reflection. Joey moves around me with wordless precision, scissors glinting under fluorescent lights. I prefer the silent ones—stylists who treat ...

The Torture Seat by Chris Wu

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XVI To Henry Guy Carleton A good man gestures with the collar of his shirt I watch him as time churns wakefulnessclimbing the hours of a natural goodness like the roses in his garden He has a commitment I read it in ...

Two Poems by Róger Lindo Translated by Matthew Byrne

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I want to be like thoseWho worship the sacred sunOur children catch its rays through rifle sightsSeconds before becoming lightSo beautiful, the morningSo divine, they sayBut daybreak bleeds through bullet holesEach ...

When the Sun Becomes Shrapnel by Ahmad Ibsais

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By the time we reached Temecula, she was pretty strung out. Her pink toenails looked like little candies against the gray leather dashboard, her knees jackknifed against her chest as she rocked back and forth. I tried to ...

Meteora by Alex Treuber

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Selections from Other Paths for Shahrazad (Tupelo Press, 2026).تفاصيل يوم عابر \ خولة جاسم الناهي - العراق :كنتُ أوّد أن أُخبرك عن تفاصيل يومي!عن شمس ...

Arabic Poems in Translation, Part 2

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  We live at the foot of Mount Monkshood, where our town ends and the wild land rises sharply beyond. Our backyard looks out onto the mountain, which is a problem, because the mountain watches us.   Monkshood lures ...

Dark Watchers by Jane Yager

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water will come again if you can wait for it. —Lucille Clifton, “water sign woman”   Mid-March: You wish for the late-winter rain that Seattle is famed for. You wish for all the water the Pacific Northwest can ...

DESIRE IS AN IAMB by Lauren Fath

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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