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We Are Cut From Shorter Days by Anthony Okpunor

Anthony Okpunor is an emerging Nigerian writer who discovered poetry and writing in general, as a better form of self expression. He is a student of the University of Benin, Nigeria at the time. He was shortlisted for the 2019 Nigerian Student Poetry Prize. He was also shortlisted for the…

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Last Winter My Father Abandoned Me in the Forest With My Brother, Who Was Eaten by a Witch; I Burned Her to Death In the Spring. by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s work has appeared in many places, including Think Journal, Great Weather for Media, Able Muse, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Prime Number Magazine, War Literature & The Arts, Consequence, and The Lyric. She is a Million Writers “Notable Writer” and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of…

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Three Poems by Ash Goedker

Ash Goedker received her MFA in poetry at the University of Idaho where she was the Editor-in-Chief at Fugue. She was the winner of the University of Idaho’s Academy of American Poets Prize and a finalist in the 2016 Indiana Review ½ K Prize. Her poems have appeared in Breakwater…

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Four Poems by Eleanor Boudreau

Eleanor Boudreau is a poet who has worked as a dry-cleaner and as a radio reporter. Her first book, Earnest, Earnest? (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House, Barrow Street, Waxwing, Willow Springs, FIELD, Copper…

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From the Labor Café in Warsaw by Jeffrey Alfier

Jeffrey Alfier’s most recent book is Gone This Long: Southern Poems. The Shadow Field, another collection, is forthcoming from Louisiana Literature Press. His publication credits include The Carolina Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Midwest Quarterly, Permafrost, and Southern Poetry Review. He is co-editor of Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review.

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Van Gogh Hopes in Arles by V.C. McCabe

V.C. McCabe is an Appalachian poet, the author of Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019), a Contributing Editor of Barren Magazine, and Social Media Manager of Animal Heart Press. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and featured in exhibits and journals worldwide, including…

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Touching the Truth by Claire Scott

Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is…

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Two Poems by Eleanor Levine

Eleanor Levine’s writing has appeared in more than 80 publications, including Fiction, Evergreen Review, The Toronto Quarterly, Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Missing Link, Bull: Men’s Fiction, Heavy Feather Review, The Denver Quarterly, Maryland Literary Review, South Dakota Review, and The Citron Review. Her poetry collection, Waitress at the…

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The Fate of Bodies as Explained by JoAnne, Age 4 by Katie Kehoe

Katie Kehoe studies library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bayou Magazine, The Appalachian Journal, and The Indianapolis Review. She was a finalist in the NC State Poetry Contest (2019), and winner of the Truman Capote poetry prize…

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The Eroding Iron of Memories Replenished by Shome Dasgupta

Shome Dasgupta is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner Of The 2010 OW Press Fiction Chapbook Contest), The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India, 2013) which has been republished in the UK by Accent Press as The Sea Singer (2016), Anklet And Other Stories (Golden…

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