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Slick Like Dark by Meg Wade  Review by Erica Charis-Molling As a lesbian who came out in the evangelical church, I resonated with Meg Wade’s book Slick Like Dark from its first few pages. Though coming from a ...

Slick Like Dark by Meg Wade Review by Erica Charis-Molling

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Air Raid by Polina Barskova Translated by Valzhyna Mort Review by Marina Kraiskaya ISBN: 978-1-946433-70-1 Trade Paperback Smyth-sewn. 160 pp, 5.25 x 8.25 in Publication Date: October 01 2021 Eastern European Poets Series ...

Air Raid Book Review by Marina Kraiskaya

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chiaroscuro    It’s still alive — the curling end of all the smoking fumes. It twirls between my ribs, those narrow cogs, and fits across the tall   and broken pieces of the clock. My ...

2 Poems by McKenna Themm

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The first time I ever saw a heart was on our kitchen floor. Mother was dissecting a chicken on the tiles. It was the time of war and the best you could get from the meat market was a fully plucked chicken with the head ...

My Mother’s Heart by Mehr-Afarin Kohan

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I only had one appointment and it wasn’t until the afternoon. Leaving the flat in the early morning I walked deliberately away from the Place de la Republique, the sore focus of the night before. I joined some men ...

Men in Doorways by William McNamara

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Four Poems by Korean Women Poets from the 16th-19th Centuries Translated by Suphil Lee Park Chang-Ahm Jeong By Choo-Hyang   We row to the blue estuary Stun birds awake into flight Mountain marked ...

4 Poems Translated by Suphil Lee Park

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Nocturne The coyotes create an auditory fence | two rowdy boys sound like a pack and some beings are happy | tonight. What scent do they catch? | Their howls echo | echo — yowls | this is their territory. It must have ...

2 Poems by Suzanne Frischkorn

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Monday, May 6, 2019   A gown with a train, striped with green, white, and black squeezes my ribs. I’m trying my best not to sneeze or tear up, but the odor emanating from the red body paint on my face and ...

Camp by Kat Abdallah

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Boyfriend Perspective by Michael Chang  Review by Dustin Pearson   ISBN-13: 9780578985626 Publisher: Really Serious Literature Publication date: 09/09/2021 Pages: 138   In short, Michael ...

Boyfriend Perspective by Michael Chang Review by Dustin Pearson

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