Calling on Visions: An Interview with Robert Krut
November 16, 2025
by Pete Miller One of my only regrets about getting my MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University is graduating…
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Listening to and Learning From Rocks: An Interview With Anjana Khatwa
October 31, 2025
by Lorraine Boissoneault What do you see when you look at a rock? For geologist Anjana Khatwa, every rock is…
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The Power of Poetry: An Interview with Cal Freeman
October 20, 2025
by John Counts John “Cal” Freeman is an old school songster sort of poet you’d find shelling peanuts at the…
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Big Stories, Small Packages: An Interview with Helen Raica-Klotz
October 3, 2025
by John Mauk Writing contests are ubiquitous. Nearly every major literary outlet hosts at least one contest per year. While…
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Motherhood, Mayhem, and Magic: An Interview with Erica Stern
September 25, 2025
by Eileen Favorite Like every mother, Erica Stern hoped for a smooth, empowering experience for her first child’s birth. But…
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Marian Armor or Mary in Amor
September 12, 2025
The dragon motif is nothing but a bladeinside a lake in a forest-green gladewhere your typical Marian is wearing a…
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September 12, 2025
Knocked Up 1967 She loves the hot sticky deep earth smells, the greedy gulping way it feels over and over…
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Ordinary
September 12, 2025
Has tenido un aborto. You’ve had an abortion. This observation is from Fernando, my acupuncturist in Málaga, Spain where I…
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Visit to Tiyospaye Institute’s Abortion Museum
September 12, 2025
David Allen Sullivan is the former poet laureate of Santa Cruz county. His books include: Strong-Armed Angels, Every Seed of…
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September 12, 2025
American Road Trip in the 21st Century Dead deer line the shoulders. Struck and alone with their soft and regal…
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The Lake Turns Over: A Prose Pantoum
September 12, 2025
*When a lake turns over, a dynamic process occurs. The colder layer at the bottom, the hypolimnion, and the warm…
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Bumblebee
September 12, 2025
Stella Honeycutt was raising a colored child and everyone around here knew it. Her, with all the la-tee-da airs, though…
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April, 2020
September 12, 2025
There were four pills, chalky white and hexagonal in shape. I held them in the palm of my hand, examining…
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The World Hurts
September 12, 2025
a found poem: L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon I was alonewhen a torn coward of a storm—an underhanded mad…
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Fortunately, Unfortunately, Florida!
September 12, 2025
Fortunately, I live by the sea. Unfortunately, the sea is dying.Fortunately, for me, the blob of seaweed is on the…
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Stated Lines
September 12, 2025
Godzilla stomps down the interstate shoulder, overturning billboards with gigantic baby heads and menacing adult teeth and baby bodies, advertisements…
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I Stand Here Sweeping
September 12, 2025
Where are you when the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade? I am at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington,…
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For the Men Protesting the Family Planning Clinic Just Steps Away from Where My Grandmother Was Born
September 12, 2025
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A Gentle Love Poem
September 12, 2025
Yolanda Nieves, born and raised in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, is an award-winning poet, playwright, director, educator,actress, and founder of…
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FAHRENHEIT 451: BOOKS, GUNS & BABIES
September 12, 2025
Cynthia Atkins (she/her) is the author of Psyche’s Weathers, In The Event of Full Disclosure (CW Books), and Still-Life With…
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Autobiography of Conviction (In Seven Stages)
September 12, 2025
(Of the sort that’s painful to live through but, in retrospect, carries a hint of pleasure.) Evenings, I made a…
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A Boy is Murdered Who Wanders a Bird Disarticulated Map [18] Disarticulated Map [7] Rodney Gomez is a 2023 NEA…
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Vessel
September 12, 2025
Tara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, Arc & Hue. Betts teaches at DePaul University’s…
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What They Made
September 12, 2025
The baby was a monster. That wasn’t a metaphor. It was real—and growing inside of Melanie. At first, they thought…
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Dipthong of the year dies in tragic accident // or Ode to the letter “I”
September 12, 2025
Simone Manuel, Tell us about your relationship to water? Jalynn Harris is a writer, educator, and book designer from Baltimore.…
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Remember (a novel excerpt)
September 12, 2025
This excerpt is the first few pages of the novel In the Past. The novel follows two sisters and their…
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Looking for a Hold
September 12, 2025
The boy in red is on top. The boy underneath him, in blue, struggles, lifting and turning them both. They…
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Self-Portrait as Bi-Valve
September 12, 2025
Jess Yuan is a poet, architect, and educator. Her first full length collection, Slow Render, was recently published in April…
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For the Record
September 12, 2025
Joni Wallace’s third full-length poetry collection is Landscape with Missing River (Barrow Street Press, 2023), recipient of the AZ-NM Book…
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Pencil-Drawn Woman
September 12, 2025
Eva is on her way to court to deliver closing arguments in her firm’s bulletproof case against Big Oil. This…
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