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Issue #110 October 2020

Lorna Simpson, “Easy to Remember”

  • A Hard Road by Charles Coe

    In July of 2016, I was on my way to the Chautauqua Institution, a summer cultural resort in southwestern New York
    Essays and Comment

  • Brett Foster’s “Extravagant Rescues” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar

    In the abcedarian list poem “Alternative Titles for the Book You Are Holding in Your Hands,” Brett Foster offers ...
    Book Review

  • Johnson, Sholl, Moss, et. al.

    Peter Johnson On “The Last Dance,” “Nice Socks,” and “My Friend,”: My most recent book is called Old Man Howling…

    Editors Note

  • Locked Gate

    On December 19, 1980

  • francine j harris Interviewed by Amy Beeder

    francine j harris’ third book Here is the Sweet Hand, with which she “fully emerges as one of the best…

    Featured Selection

  • A Brief Portfolio of Six Poems

    told us Hollywood was a verb on the painted stretcher &    fretting,

  • Notes From Sick Rooms

    Who really wants to be a caregiver?

  • Taking It Back

    Two weeks past Epiphany,

  • The Shadow of Love

    A man falls in love with a shadow

  • The Worm

    The sun: a worm with a spring withy in its jaws.

  • Always a Woman, a War, or a Lost Cause

    That hunched those men over Zorro’s

  • Romanian Lessons & The Country of Leaving

    Godmother country,

  • My Friend, Nice Socks & The Last Dance

    My friend wanted to have breakfast at the local strip club.

  • The Book of Forgotten Geniuses

    I can understand why the Egyptians

  • A Brief Portfolio of Six Poems

    The pond flattered the foliage,

  • A Singleton & Self Portrait: Between the Car and the Sea

    They climb to their lookout, each day, different,

  • Whatever Alights

    A zillion yeses to the titmice at my feeder,