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March 2023

Cover artist: Aya Kakeda

Before I was a poet, I was a lineage.

KB Brookins
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  • Kinsale Drake
  • Nam Le
  • Rodolfo Avelar
  • Dorothea Lasky
  • Terrance Hayes
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From this Issue
    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine The Artist

      By Jenny George
      A snake lies in the open, dormant
      in its sleeve of heat. A gilded orphan
      on the sun-warmed dirt, eye-slits ajar,
      waiting for the infinite to arrive.
      You want to strike it with a stick.
      You want an answer to the prayer
      that says, Make use...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Inside Yayoi Kusama’s “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies”

      By Laura Villareal
      Phoenix Art Museum, 2018

      Long ago I learned the trick,
                   walk away       when you see
      your own      reflection.
                   Walk     into the hard swallow,
      unflinching    as it is. Uncertainty
                   unfolds     like a firefly’s flicker.     I know
      my body       must be swarmed.
                   What overwhelms me?—
      Accumulation,
                   panoramic &...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Jenner, CA

      By Jay Deshpande
      We stay in a room the ocean accepts
      as its accompaniment. Picture-frame window, one
      bright line across it. Crashing waves
      heard through the insulation as a continuous loop
      in a film about apocalypse. Last night
      the party, the ungentleness of love
      of loving your friends, of...

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Table of Contents

POEMS
HOW IT CONTINUES TO ASTONISH: THE POETRY OF ANN LAUTERBACH
NOT TOO HARD TO MASTER
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