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April 2024

Cover Artist: Lynne Yun at Space Type

i(’ll) sprout any how

(flourish!)

Samiya Bashir
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  • Melvin Dixon
  • Krista Franklin
  • Bo Hee Moon
  • Erik Tschekunow
  • Ariel Francisco
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From this Issue
    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Redeem

      By Rosalie Moffett
      The sun was losing
      a long gold tooth

      on the linoleum
      of the labor and delivery ward.

      I lifted my plastic bracelet to the green eye
      of the barcode gun and it sang

      the first note
      of money’s national anthem.

      Redeem, a word with its feet
      in the cement...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Hats May Perish

      By Sid Ghosh
      Some bequeath poetry.
      Some bequeath hats.
      Tomes of my sorry
      hats can destroy
      libraries.

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Once, While Disemboweling the Chicken

      By Isabella Desendi
      readying it for my lover’s dinner, I remembered
      my abuela slashing the rooster’s throat. I was four.
      Held the wet blade in my hand and cried. For days
      the carcass hung like a cross over the red front door
      until it shriveled and stunk,...

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Table of Contents

Poems
KARA WALKER: BACK OF HAND
MELVIN DIXON: I’LL BE SOMEWHERE LISTENING FOR MY NAME
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