Browsing Category Fiction & Poetry

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  Fiction

  Young Chul Kim

  "The Walrus asked if this missing person had Down syndrome and was I his caretaker?"

  By Eliza Kostelanetz Schrader
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  Poems

  Departures

  your childhood by the river, / in the dirt, lacking words

  By Flávia Rocha
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  Fiction

  Trouble

  "Ouch. That word, neglected, keeps popping up."

  By Hope Ewing
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  Fiction

  How Not to Play Pool

  "My pedagogical disagreements with bartenders are a source of never-ending grief for me."

  By Hilary Gan
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  Poems

  Combing the Long Branch Beach, I Lose My Life in the Debris

  I feel trapped in my old life / Like a hermit crab that won’t abandon its shell

  By Gregg G. Brown
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  Fiction

  Dogwood

  "Drill sergeant never told us how much louder guns are when they’re shooting at you."

  By Andrew Slater
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  Poems

  Book Burning

  So much in a face: / the upholstery of / being human.

  By Richard Fox
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  Fiction

  Plans for Dealing with the Public

  "My upstairs neighbor is converting his toilet into a public toilet."

  By Perry Genovesi
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  Poems

  NIGHT STORY

  She thinks about swans, the woman reading, / and a tall girl with tangled hair...

  By Katharyn Howd Machan
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  Fiction

  Emails From My Dead Mother

  Do they have Gmail in the afterlife?

  By Jonathan Papernick
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  Poems

  Two Poems

  Pitiful humans compelled / by some wrinkled force / to figure who they might be...

  By Eric Helms
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  Poems

  Marshall Berman, 1940-2013

  A poem to remember one of Marxist humanism's most brilliant voices.

  By Todd Gitlin