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Verdell Walker explores just who is on the other end of the phone line in “A Year in the Life of a College Beggar.” Clients share their stories with a character who starts to question company policies in Rober P. Kaye’s “Blank Slate.” Corrie Lynn White probes primal aspects of contemporary life and motherhood in three poems including “First Wilderness”

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Jen Grace Stewart takes a knife to an onion and unravels a relationship in three short poems including “Pare.” A young boy spends a day killing flies expecting to exchange them with his Papá for a penny each in Miguel Alfonso Ramos’s “Por Si Las Moscas.” And Gary Fincke thinks through many types of endings […]

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Dorothy Louise leaves one life behind for a new one, in “Mississippi Rubicon.” An actor tries to reason with a director in Caitlin O’Neil’s “Woman in Bar #2.” And Bonnie Jill Emanuel lives the storm across three seasons and in three poems including “Crossing Harlem, Bus in a Spring Storm.”

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In Porter and Ellard’s “Permanent Fixtures,” a woman examines her compulsion to hold onto everything. In Steffler and Rinkema’s “Killing Robby Jenkins,” a young woman contending with a vindictive ex laments her world is ending, and her mother tries to shield her from the fact that, indeed, the world is literally ending. In “Too Pregnant […]

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Rebecca G. Biber tackles Jewish identity and history in three frank poems including “Couplets for the Statistically Unlikely Descendant of a Quasi-model Minority.” Alexis MacIssac overhears the woes of modern men in flight in “YYZ to DUB.” Two women support each other through their family and educational struggles in Gemini Wahhaj’s “Home Economics.”

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Winshen Liu cooks up longing and memory in three poems about food and emigration including “They Say to Make Lemonade.” Jeff Hardin considers the miracles of home, poetry, identity, and our common humanity in three poems including “How Sweet the Sound.” Ruby Hansen Murray shares Osage history and family life in four poems including “California Osage.”

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A nurse makes questionable decisions in Brandi Handley’s “How’s Your Pain?” Daniel DeVaughn takes the lid off the past in three haunting poems including “A Kernel of Wheat.” Kristen Keckler explores the implications of an improbable discovery, in “Finders and Keepers.”

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A festive fall party uncovers secrets and tests relationships in Sarah Bradley’s “Old Pal.” A character shares a meaningful and meditative memories on family and home in Barnhart’s “Desire Paths.” A character shares her struggles with addiction, the music industry, and race in America in JJ Amaworo Wilson’s “The Song of the Crow.”

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A defiant teenage girl gets an overnight security job at a museum in NYC where she encounters a strange relationship in Van Rung’s “The Persephone.” Alan Michael Parker considers what makes a drawing, and a world, in “The Edge of the World.” Noah Soltau takes the reader on a journey to strange yet familiar places in a suite of poems titled “Pathfinder.”

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Images from The Swimmer (1968) directed by Frank Parry and starring Burt Lancaster. Based on the story “The Swimmer” by John Cheever. — A lonely mother struggles to find her place in a new neighborhood and clings to the one-sided relationship she has formed with her children’s babysitter in Kate Finlinson‘s “Sugarhouse.” Matthew Sidney Parsons cooks up memory and place in “Braise with Salt Potatoes.” Richie Hofmann excavates memory and desire as he investigates the fragile nature of […]

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A man tries to restart his life in George Singleton’s “Checking Out.” Jim Huff sails into the past and future on the wings of a song in “What’s Wrong , John?” Judy Kaber plumbs the icy depths of grief in three poems including “How Are You Holding Up?”

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Clayton Adam Clark survives the recurring flooding of many rivers in three excerpts from his long poem, Before Me Is Always Fled. An aspiring writer navigates social circumstances at a writers’ conference in Daniel Abiva Hunt’s “Before Our Time on this Earth Ends.” Chrissie Anderson Peters examines the usefulness of some fears, in Fear of Bees.

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