October 2022
Cover Artist: Isip XinThe heart’s perhaps the most reliable clock we have.Ross Gay
- Ladan Osman
- Edgar Kunz
- Myronn Hardy
- Winniebell Xinyu Zong
- Carolyn Marie Rodgers
From this Issue
Poem
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Daddy’s blue-gray Chevy pickup
bumped along the hard gravel road
forking deeper into pines & oaks,
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Poem
By Victoria Chang
Agnes only had nine years to live. The angels must have begun to hover around her canvas like monkeys. This canvas has nine white thin strips between the red and blue ones. I’ve spent my life thinking about the blue ones, thinking they were the future. But the future was red all along. I sense something is ending but I’m not sure what. Maybe it’s the future. This morning, I looked at a large spiderweb above my car. When I returned 10 minutes later, the weaver was gone, the web dismantled, but my hands were still open. Maybe a life doesn’t matter so much as the feeling it leaves behind, whether anyone receives the feeling or not. Maybe our goal is to spend all the light. Since none of us asked to be born.
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Poem
By Alex Dimitrov
The winds made me crazy.
At King’s Highway diner
I did tarot for the waitress
and she drew a heart on my bill...
Table of Contents
POEMS
- Adrian Matejka
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Victoria Chang
- Alex Dimitrov
- Karyna McGlynn
- Myronn Hardy
- Dāshaun Washington
- Trevor Ketner
- Winniebell Xinyu Zong
- Martín Espada
- Edgar Kunz
- Ladan Osman
- Ruth Ellen Kocher
- Eugene Gloria
- Diane Seuss
CAROLYN MARIE RODGERS: WHAT BEAUTY WE NOW HAVE
- Andrew Peart
- Carolyn Marie Rodgers
- Translation (Thinking of Enoch) for Black People
- The Translation of Eve
- The I Am Awesome
- Morning Glory
- Ethiopia
- On/My/Aging
- Cubistic Body World
- History Lesson/1960s
- Signs of Life after Eden
- I Return to the Church
- Poem No. 2: My Kind of Feminism
- Something Inside
- For Gwen Brooks
- Affirmation: A Monologue Poem
- What a Mighty Long Way
- Such Beauty from Ashes
- Nikky Finney
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