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Stories

Poetry
From Winter’s Apprentice
by Bruce Bond
A ripple across the darker fathom, no sooner there than torn away.
Poetry
From “A Poppy in My Hair”
by Moon Chung-hee
At 35,000 feet, the center of heaven, in the deep Milky Way, we meet.
Poetry Contest Winners
From “All the Great Territories”
by Matthew Wimberley
You try to confess your crime of turning the world into words.
Poem of the Week
From “An Essay on Criticism”
by Alexander Pope
’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike.
Poem of the Week
From “Call It in the Air”
by Ed Pavlić
He told me that he knows a parent’s grief for a dead child.
Poem of the Week
From “Doppler Elegies”
by Ben Lerner
Why am I always asleep in your poems? Look at me Ben, when am I.
Poem of the Week
From “Dragonfly Landing”
by Sung Po-jen
Four wings of silk without a trace of dust perched upon a silken line.
Poetry
From “Fall Line”
by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
I want you, you captive, delivered into each other’s territories.
Poem of the Week
From “Home/Front”
by Philip Metres
What consequence is a body/a body nonetheless. If the light in me is gone.
Poem of the Week
From “In Memoriam”
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light.
Poem of the Week
From “Last Summer in the Garden”
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
It is cruel, this business of exile and divorce. I will not deny it.
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Poem of the Week
From “Someone”
by Deborah Landau
Your hand on my nightgown, my soft places. I wish you wouldn’t do that.
Poem of the Week
From “Spring”
by William Blake
Sound the flute! Now it’s mute! Bird’s delight, day and night.
Poetry
From “The Book of Clay”
by Blanca Varela
God is there between things, sitting at his own left hand.
Poetry
from “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”
by Yusef Komunyakaa
Lie down & whisper all your careless dreams into my votive ear.
Poetry
From “The Last Will and Testament of the Orphelines”
by Heather Altfeld
Our cocoa is gone and our dreams are being eaten by mice.
Poetry
From “The Low Passions”
by Anders Carlson-Wee
There’s no need to check for a pulse, hold a hand mirror for breath.
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Poem of the Week
From “The Monogram”
by Odysseas Elytis
The waves have heard of you. How you caress, how you kiss.
Poetry
From “The Obscure Lives of Poets”
by C. D. Wright
One spent the better part of this life writing in the dirt with a stick.
Poem of the Week
From “Twenty Poems for Noelle”
by Matthew Zapruder
Noelle, somewhere symphony number two listens to you breathing.
Poetry
Frost on Fire and Other Poems
by Dean Rader
All roads lead to Rome, but all trails take you to Oklahoma.
Story of the Week
Frou-Frou
by Leo Tolstoy
She possessed a quality that made one forget all shortcomings.
Story of the Week
Frozen
by Dennis O’Reilly
Gerard sat in the shadow, watching his son steal about like a thief.
Poem of the Week
Fruit Basket for Extinction
by Mark Alan Williams
Play hero, sunburned protagonist, awake in our dream.
iStories
Fruit Flies
by Meagan Macvie
“Being gay’s not a sin,” as if it's obvious why I don’t belong in church.
Story of the Week
Fu Er Dai to the Max
by Xuan Juliana Wang
I yanked him halfway out of his car and punched him in the nose.
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Poem of the Week
Fumbling through the Heart of Music
by David Huerta
Fumbling among the constellations, I believed my throat would burst.
Cartoons
Fun Facts!
by K. A. Polzin
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First & Second Looks
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
I was butch to my father’s nelly, utilitarian to his aesthete.
Interviews
Gail Godwin
by Gail Godwin
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