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Self-Portrait of What’s Attainable 

Self-Portrait of What’s Attainable 

| April 8, 2026 |

Associate Editor Andy Sia: When I encountered Aaliyah Anderson’s poem after the last passenger pigeon, Martha, in the slush pile, I was immediately intrigued, given Martha’s ties to Cincinnati—Martha died at the Cincinnati Zoo after most of her life there. More broadly, I’m drawn to Anderson’s rendering of death as a continuation that is not …

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