History of Forgetfulness by Shahe Mankerian
Review by Alan Semerdjian
Publisher: Fly on the Wall Poetry (October 22, 2021)
Paperback: 86 pages
ISBN: 1913211622
The Memory Singing: Shahe ...
History of Forgetfulness by Shahe Mankerian Review by Alan Semerdjian
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I do a little dance for myself.
Turn to my husband and shout
It’s beer for dinner tonight, baby!
I have fun with myself.
I pull out the newborn
onesie with the graphic rainbow babe.
The ...
Not Pregnant Again by Whitney Koo
LAR Online, Poetry
Forever errant, he agreed to the date. What else was there to do but plunge back into battle, to meet and meet and meet? So he hammered fresh armor to defend himself from blows and scrapes and wounds, from all the ...
The Knight by Zak Salih
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Another Word for Hunger by Heather Bartlett
Review by Isaiah Vianese
Publisher: Sundress Publications
Publication Date: June 13, 2023
ISBN: 1951979486
Pages: 102
In the prologue poem of her debut ...
Another Word for Hunger by Heather Bartlett Review by Isaiah Vianese
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I woke from a dream today in which I finished the essay I started yesterday. The kind of finishing that is brilliant in the dream, slightly less brilliant when you wake up. Twisty and nonsensical by the time you finish ...
Shed Fall by Deb Werrlein
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Editor’s note: This piece contains subject matter that some readers may find troubling.
When I was a little kid, my great aunt shared my room. She was childless, so Mom claimed her. She slept in the bottom ...
Aunt Liesel by Derek Updegraff
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Born in 1920, Cho Ji Hoon is a canonical poet of modern Korea and a renowned scholar of Korean aesthetics. Written in a modernist free-verse form, his poetry is rooted in the ...
Poems by Cho Ji Hoon Translated by Sekyo Nam Haines
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Extinctions by Sharmistha Mohanty
Review by Vedant Srinivas
Publisher: Context
Publication Date: September 12, 2022
ISBN: 9395073330
Pages: 112
Everything and Nothing: On Sharmistha Mohanty’s ...
Extinctions by Sharmistha Mohanty Review by Vedant Srinivas
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John A. Nieves’ poems appear in journals such as: Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, American Literary Review, North American Review, and Southern Review. His first book, Curio, won the ...
Horizon Song by John A. Nieves
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I gather little bits of paper resting on the carpet to distract myself, all to avoid having an argument with you, which is inevitable, but not impossible to hold off so long as I gather paper, little bits of it, little ...
Little Bits of Paper by Martin Piñol
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