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A.B. Spellman on Jim Crow, alligator suede shoes, and shaking up the art of the castle.

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By Farid Matuk & Tilsa Otta

A Tilsa Otta folio.

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the black dykes at 40

By R. Erica Doyle
letting  the words fly like smoke uncurling from our mouths
we lie in bed with dykes ten years our junior, make
pot heaps to share, sleep in the same flannel sheets...
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Li-Young Lee

B. 1957
Li-Young Lee (he/him) is a poet and the author of The Invention of the Darling (W. W. Read More
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