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National Poetry Month: Julian Talamantez Brolaski

  • Julian Talamantez Brolaski
  • April 28, 2025
you just gotta know / when to toss them the meat / ‘try’ implies there is some latitude / in the outcome
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The Kingdom of Happy Land: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez

  • Nefertiti Asanti
  • April 28, 2025
My work is really infused with hope even when I’m writing difficult history—there’s always love there.
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National Poetry Month: Bernardo Wade

  • Bernardo Wade
  • April 25, 2025
& Delirium shows me our kids / & the house we would raise them in / & my perfect job / & I think, damn, that was easy
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“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation

  • Yes(sí)
  • April 25, 2025
Writing is not a luxury. It’s the documentation of our decolonial imaginary.
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We Are More: Istanbul

  • Eman Quotah
  • April 24, 2025
“Don’t ask her what happened,” Abu Mali says. We do anyways, in Arabic so he can’t understand, but she ignores us.
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National Poetry Month: 黄梵 Huang Fan

  • 黄梵 Huang Fan
  • April 24, 2025
My zodiac sign really is the rabbit / As a child, I ground my teeth in my sleep / According to the rabbit dictionary / That’s how you say pain 
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National Poetry Month: Mark Leidner

  • Mark Leinder
  • April 23, 2025
I found a chest / that contained an important upgrade // that let me absorb more damage / going forward,
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Voices on Addiction: The Shape of Memory

  • Jessy Easton
  • April 22, 2025
He smelled of faint traces of acetone and the lemon hand soap he always used. He smelled like home.
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National Poetry Month: Soleil Davíd

  • Soleil Davíd
  • April 22, 2025
I learn to fear / what might have happened if they had meant // to maul me, which is to say I don’t think enough / about death,
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Unfun: Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both

  • Seán Carlson
  • April 22, 2025
There’s a temptation to look for narrative redemption, a sense of completeness, some reassurance that the trouble was worthwhile, that all will be okay.
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National Poetry Month: Rob Arnold

  • Rob Arnold
  • April 21, 2025
Beauty in, beauty out. What you consume becomes you.
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Never Just One Story: A Conversation with Wayne Scott

  • Amy Bond
  • April 21, 2025
Falling in love for the first time is like the first draft of a short story you’re writing— messy and exciting and full of possibilities.
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