June2024 poetry cover

June 2024

Cover Artist: Lynne Yun at Space Type

The poets have emerged!
The poets have emerged!

 Joe Carrick-Varty
  • Isabela Agosa
  • Edward Salem
  • Jackie Sabbagh
  • Ahn Joo Cheol
  • Kwame Dawes
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From this Issue

Poem
By Gboyega Odubanjo
head permed heavy because rain don’t dare touch us.
on certain mornings you can hear it deep in conversation
with itself. i can’t the rain says. for it is written that so long
as the oils of scorched earth red to the root and royal hold...
Poem
By Erika L. Sánchez
Every day is yesterday 
& like the loneliness 
of water, I have always 
existed. My body brackets...
Poem
By Patricia Guzman
First spring rain and I can’t begin a line like this again
without remembering  you were here this time last year.

When I think of  being a mother, my mind goes blank...
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Hard Feelings
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