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Bequeath by Melora Wolff Review by Aline Soules Publisher: Louisiana State University Press  ISBN: 978-0-8071-8277-2 Publication Date: September 13, 2024 Pages: 167 pages According to Melora Wolff in a Tupelo ...

Bequeath by Melora Wolff Review by Aline Soules

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one of her big boys rips open a packet of matador spinach seeds,strews them amid a diameter of potted dirt and waits for water and sun to do their thing in the dark stairwell alcove. show me yours, water says, and sun ...

WHEN A BLACK WOMAN DIES by AKHIM YUSEFF CABEY

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Lumps. Always lumps. When will my wife finally learn how to make proper mashed potatoes? The butter, loads of it, roasted garlic, minced onion, and the top-secret ingredient of cottage cheese––just how mom used to ...

Potatoes Au Gratitude by Kristy Holditch

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Translator's Note: At 5:00 AM on January 20, 2025, the new American regime fulfilled its first campaign promise: shutting down the appointment functionality of the CBP One smartphone app.  Immediately, 300,000 asylum ...

a la plaza giordano bruno by Jorge Ríos translated by Ivy Raff

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Faith (after Alain Bosquet) God tempts me in my language.            As I reject Him, I feel remorse. He is that within me which is            repulsed by the smallness in me.  I create God to limit ...

Two Poems by Joshua McKinney

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  She is on the commode when I find her, head bent nearly to the floor, arms reaching for her walker in supplication. The outline of her spine is like the bent balsa skeleton of a kite, strong and so close to snapping. ...

DEPARTURE by Hal Ackerman

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Meatballs with Tomato SauceMy joy is filled with fragrant scentsthat blend with flavors, rich and intense,a simple taste I sometimes adore––meatballs with tomato sauce, nothing more.I search for the ladder in the ...

Three Poems by Livia Aymonino Translated by Caroline Laganas

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One More World Like This World by Carlie Hoffman Review by Shannon Vare Christine Publisher: Four Way Books Publication Date: March 2025 ISBN: 978-1-961897-28-1 Pages: 80 In One More World Like This World, Carlie ...

One More World Like This World by Carlie Hoffman Review by Shannon Vare Christine

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My wife tried to wring every drop out of music. She read up on what foods doubled as hearing enhancers and thereafter every meal involved some combination of spinach, potatoes, broccoli, liver, wheat germ, mango, kiwi, ...

Once is Enough by Victor McConnell

Fiction, LAR Online

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