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National Poetry Month: Harmony Holiday

  • Harmony Holiday
  • April 18, 2025
She threatens to love them like this forever    in pieces  flabby patchwork of his  lost sheet music
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Home is a Word Unspoken

  • Tamar Mekredijian
  • April 18, 2025
Our grocery store. Our bank. Our beloved local coffee shop and pizza parlor. I didn’t know where I was until I saw the magnolia tree, rigid and charred.
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National Poetry Month: Mathias Svalina

  • Mathias Svalina
  • April 17, 2025
So let’s collect our birthed things, no matter / how small or useless, & store them on museum / shelves.
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National Poetry Month: Arda Collins

  • Arda Collins
  • April 16, 2025
He was asking me / to read his mind / and smell him, acquire memories / with him / that would float through my life with me.
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The Wildness of Grief: Sarah Giragosian’s Mother Octopus

  • Barbara Ungar
  • April 16, 2025
...mothering is entwined with dying throughout this wide-ranging volume, as birth and death are revealed as two sides of one leaf. 
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Pigs Rooting for Truffles

  • Jenny Li
  • April 15, 2025
The state was good. Parents were not necessarily good. Sometimes, in order to serve the state, you had to turn your parents in.
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National Poetry Month: Sanam Sheriff

  • Sanam Sheriff
  • April 15, 2025
Come morning, a blankness— / what was once the sky and is now / an answer.
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LittlePuss Press Double Release: On Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event: An Essay & Anton Solomonik’s Realistic Fiction

  • Erin Vachon
  • April 15, 2025
If the LittlePuss books are advanced exercises in cognitive dissonance, Blaxell and Solomonik insist on returning to matters of the heart.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Tuesday Morning, Downtown

  • Sabrina Lim Fang
  • April 14, 2025
I’m going to quit, I said. For you. I’ll quit.
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National Poetry Month: Brandon Som

  • Brandon Som
  • April 14, 2025
The / hibiscus out my window now blooms  the bright / tongue & lips of the Rolling Stones  car-freshener / hanging from the rearview mirror  of my tío’s / Chevy.
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Masculinity, Grief, and Music: A Conversation with Denne Michele Norris

  • Ursula Villarreal-Moura
  • April 14, 2025
Our capacity for imagination is boundless—and that’s where there’s some porousness between how different people move through the world.
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What to Read When You’re Looking for Romance

  • Gemini Wahhaj
  • April 11, 2025
Throughout history, the marauding aristocracy has torn away people from their land and community, most recently in the formation of the modern industrial nation.
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