“Bombs and Stars by Leila Farjami
Winner of the 2024 Robert and Adele Schiff Award in poetry When I was a child,my fire burned black...
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“Coney Island Baby” by James Ciano
I didn’t play footballfor the coach.I played soccerthough my fathercoached football.He was a...
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“The Down-Low” by Lee Martin
The train curved around the mountains of West Virginia, and my father said to look out the window....
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“Your Inbox Is Too Much With Us—a correspondence” by Jaye Kranz
(To use the PDF embedder to see all pages of the poem, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand...
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“Paradise Is Ours” by Erika Gallion Velasquez
Winner of the 2024 Robert and Adele Schiff Award in literary nonfiction 1 Pears fall to the yard,...
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“Pigboy and His Artificial Jesus” by Patrick J. Zhou
Winner of the 2024 Robert and Adele Schiff Award in fiction At night I kept my Jesus folded small...
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“Extinction Studies” by Shane Joaquin Jimenez
In the days following the tragedy, after the funerals were over and even the local papers had...
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miCRo: “The Violet Hour” by Radian Hong
This prose poem captures a modern relationship hollow from within, echoing T. S. Eliot.
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miCRo: “May the circle be broken” by Bob Hicok
A masterful poem that moves from harm to care
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