We have no neighbors across the street, save the red fox and the gray fox, the mulberry trees, and the bunnies. This spring, rather suddenly, the mulberry trees fruited in…
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Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and editor of Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation (Jamii Publishing, 2019). She has received fellowships from Cave…
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Born stateless in Germany and raised in New York City and its suburbs, Natasha Sajé is the author of three books of poems, including Vivarium (Tupelo, 2014), as well as a postmodern poetry handbook, Windows…
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The falafel cry as they are dolloped into the hot grease by the husband-half of the Lake Ella farmer’s market who demands I take my hands out of my pockets,…
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When Stalin collectivized Russian peasant agriculture, goods disappeared from the stores. The rationing system devised for bread and other items lead to the infamous bread lines of the Soviet bloc. …
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Wendy Xu is most recently the author of Phrasis (2017), named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. She is Assistant Professor of Writing…
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When I die, I want to come back as an item from my wife’s kitchen, preferably her Flame colored Le Creuset Signature Cast Iron 1 ½-quart sauce pan. I certainly…
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Amanda Johnston is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter (Argus House Press). Her poetry and interviews have appeared in numerous online and…
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Sifting under strawberry vines each week, I lift their long, leafy tendrils with god knows what on the end. Various shapes, colors, and stages of rottenness, or not. I’d planted…
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Luther Hughes, born and raised in Seattle, is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022) and the chapbook Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018). Founder of Shade…
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Blackberry Vines Quarantine Poem #12 They say that in these times to soothe the fragility of our egos we should “control what we can” so on the days the anxiety…
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Tanaya Winder is an author, singer/songwriter, poet, motivational speaker and educator who comes from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Diné, and Duckwater Shoshone Nations where she is…
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Curbside Pick-up Menu Family dinner for 2 Half smoked chicken w/salsa verde Roasted carrots with pistachio butter Caesar Salad Biscuits and honey butter Chocolate Mousse The phone rang and a…
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“Eat me up, my love, or else I’m going to eat you up. Fear of eating, fear of the edible, fear on the part of the one of them who…