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Issue #102 February 2020

Charalampos Kydonakis
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  • Essay on the Prose Poem by Charles Simic

    I’m grateful to Peter Johnson for bringing Charles Simic’s brilliant, unpublished “Essay on the Prose Poem” to my attention. Although…

    Essays and Comment

  • Mark Wagenaar reviews Mark Irwin’s “Shimmer”

    Mark Irwin’s Shimmer   Shimmer, the winner of the 2018 Phillip Levine Prize for Poetry, is Mark Irwin’s tenth volume of…

    Book Review

  • Signaling to You

    You live with a young leopard and a poem levitating in the gravitational landscape.

  • Engraved Phrases on Open Seas: Poems and Notes on Translations of Khal Torabully

    Engraved Phrases on Open Seas: Poems and Notes on Translations of Khal Torabully By Nancy Naomi Carlson   Few books…

    Featured Selection

  • Morris, Campo, Kolbe, et. al.

    Sawnie Morris on ‘Signaling to You’: “Signaling to You” began with a dream. I had no idea what the dream…

    Editors Note

  • July 4th

    Tarred roads starting to buckle,

  • AFTERNOON AT THE METROPOLITAN, NYC

    Against the mauve wall, a Flegel

  • Missed Romance & The Image

    An old black and white photograph

  • Ophthalmology

    No me miras, she said, hiding her face,

  • Fogetting Names

    Inevitable, and not

  • How Sad

    Their kisses were bitterly thin,

  • Bright in June Sun

    The young man, kneeling at his mother’s tomb, lays red tulips there,

  • Brothers

    Who eats with a jaw half-cranked with counterweight

  • Resumé

    Families shame you;

  • Timetable

    Somebody dies, for example, or is gone

  • Great Pond

    Tom swims

  • Other People’s Pain & Charade

    Remember her eating pad thai and grimacing