CHARLES WRIGHT
Gate City Breakdown
Like a vein of hard coal, it was the strike
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CHARLES WRIGHT
WILLIAM OLSEN
Raptors
but I am afraid the eagles have their own theories of joy
Winter & Spring 2020
Michael Bazzett, Jehanne Dubrow, Gemma Gorga, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Danusha LamĂ©ris, Stanley Plumly, Octavio Quintanilla, Alberto RĂos, Arra L. Ross, Taije Silverman, Nance Van Winckel, & more
JENNIFER CHANG
Two Poems
I had /
a love. A blue /
kite untwisting /
the sky.
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Here They Are the Words
Here they are the words fluttering in the mind
Winter & Spring 2019
Featuring Don Bogen, Dawn Davies, Elton Glaser, Janice N. Harrington, Valerie Hsiung, Mark Irwin, Karen An-hwei Lee, Dora Malech, Supritha Rajan, Brandon Som, SM Stubbs, Kary Wayson and more
DEVON WALKER-FIGUEROA King’s Valley
John Wayne is watching / from his lacquered saw blade on the wall
RODNEY GOMEZ Their Bodies a Xylophone
Look at what happens / when you want to feed your family.
CHRIS DOMBROWSKI Bird in My Boot
Madness / was madness, that’s all.
JAMES WELCH Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat
Winds cheat to pull heat from smoke