recent writing
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The Afterlife
In the ten elegiac sections that comprise “The Afterlife,” Sarah Green explores fertility, reproductive health, and how “[r]egret like a car alarm […] follows [her] / through the neighborhoods.” This poem will appear in Green’s forthcoming collection, The Deletions, this year.
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Weirdo Carrot Cabaret
In panels that are both breezy and substantive, Caite McNeil’s comic, “Weirdo Carrot Cabaret,” will send you back to the farmer’s market with fresh eyes. Come for the personified produce. Stay for the recipe at the end.
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End of the Season
A crown of sonnets, a portrait of a marriage, and a delicate exploration of how place nudges our lives forward, Brian Brodeur’s “End of the Season” is a world unto itself. “Feeling his phone vibrate against his thigh,” Brodeur writes in pitch perfect pentameter, “he knew her text before he read it: Bye.”
from the archive
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Strange Merchants
“When my father encountered his strange merchant in the leather goods shop, he felt free to forge a kind of inside joke with the man. He felt free to belly laugh and drum his fingertips on the counter at the aphorism’s off-color punch line.” Anna Journey considers the closeness of strangers.
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Poetry Ha Ha
“Theories of comedy are no more comic in themselves than theories of sexuality are sexy.” Robert Archambeau digs into ideas of comedy and the poetry of Aaron Belz.
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After the Election
“And all the persons stuck // on the train, the morning after the election, / not knowing what happened, what a life had been // extinguished into their suffering, thinking this / is unbearable, great, can this day get any worse….” Swift and spiraling, a new poem from Jason Koo limns our lives among others we never know well enough.