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Stories

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Poem of the Week
From A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor
by Maram al-Massri
Like lions in cages, women like me dream . . . of freedom . . .
Story of the Week
From A to Z
by Susan Glaspell
Youth! Goodness! Joy! Hope! Strange things to bring to a place like this.
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Poem of the Week
From After Love
by Vicente Aleixandre
With these fingers, afraid and aware, I stroke your delicate skin.
Poetry
From BINT
by Ghinwa Jawhari
i silenced with my hands the loud wet thing that would not let me sleep
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Readers' Narratives
From Boshehr to the Caspian Sea
by Mehrnoosh Mazarei
We crossed the length of Iran to reach a lake so big they called it a sea.
Poem of the Week
From Braided Creek
by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser
The old hen scratches then looks, scratches then looks. My life.
Poetry
From Deluge
by Leila Chatti
I bled. God didn’t want to hear about it. He said unclean and so it was.
N30B Winners
From End of Empire
by Marissa Davis
I turned—a peculiar triumph—as ruin succumbed to the ruin it birthed.
Poem of the Week
From Flood Song
by Sherwin Bitsui
The meeting hall of their bodies piled on lawns caked with dying birds.
Poem of the Week
From Here
by Karen Harryman
The keys look like Tommy’s teeth once he began to appreciate meth.
Narrative Outloud
From His Recent Collection, Our Story Begins
by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff reading two stories aloud: "Say Yes" and "Her Dog."
Poem of the Week
From Letters to Yesenin
by Jim Harrison
…a classmate dropped dead, his heart was attacked at thirty-three.
Poetry
from long life hotel
by mal profeta
i learned to save lives from a man who reminded me of my father
Poetry
From Mary Is a River
by Rachel Jamison Webster
I walked that land with him, one and mingling, breaking into breath.
Poetry
From Notes at the Grave of James Felix Quigley
by James Kelly Quigley
Out there, my father captains a boat tour below the Cliffs of Moher
Poem of the Week
From One with Days
by C. D. Wright
This was his sky, his clouds rucked up over the fields. His country.
Poem of the Week
From Rising, Falling, Hovering
by C. D. Wright
We cannot leave it to the forces to rub out the color of the world.
Narrative Outloud
From Our Interview
by Donald Hall
I don’t know if I’ve written anything without changing the details.
Story of the Week
From Out Near Ballincollig
by John Boyne
“You’re going somewhere now,” he said. “Up to the big smoke.”
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Poetry
From Sonnets to the Humans
by T. Zachary Cotler
Poetry
From Take Me to Stavanger
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Into the storm, the iridescent cosmos. To the savage dances of sunset.
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Poem of the Week
From The Book of Questions
by Pablo Neruda
Why is the sun such a bad companion to the desert traveler?
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Poem of the Week
From The Dream We Carry
by Olav H. Hauge
You’ve gathered more knowledge than you’d need for nine lives.
Poem of the Week
From The Erotic Philosophers
by Carolyn Kizer
It was our flesh with its deadly sweetness that led them on.
Poem of the Week
From The Invention of Mathematics
by Amy Uyematsu
She already knew that deafening silence of a call gone unanswered.
Poetry Contest Winners
From The Judas Ear
by Anna Journey
Don’t try to find me by spit, by genetic sleuthing, by Are you my?
Narrative Outloud
From The Testing of Luther Albright
by MacKenzie Scott
Poetry
From The Victor Poems
by Anthony Caleshu
It was only a matter of time before the damp of loss grew within us like moss.
Poetry
From the World-Womb of Our Impending Doom
by Spencer Hanvik
The body passing through its own fires, the hard escape of it all.
Poetry
From Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters
by Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung
How do we heal our savage hearts, foolish wrath gone rogue on any soul.