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Essay
By Colin Dickey

Gray Barker helped create UFO mythology from his home in rural West Virginia. In his poems, he channels the repression and paranoia that stalked postwar America.

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Something Like We Did IV

By Tim Seibles
Wind in the leaves
of the live oak next door

and the June bugs
click-click

hard bodies
hitting the screen.


Couldn’t tell how much
time had passed.

Light from traffic
on the ceiling.

Late   that sound
in the sky   soft.


Thinking out loud
then inside my head:

they were still there—
the way they walked

that...
Poem

From the magazine:Sir

By Carl Phillips
You with your crown 
of days for headdress, 
your promises, for safe-
keeping. You hovering 
as usual distantly…

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From the magazine:What Carries Us

By Emily Jungmin Yoon
First, there was the horse.

Imagine creatures as majestic...
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