I know what it must be
but I can't bear to check.
Playing patience with a short deck;
Counting back from infinity
until it's time to see
that no one hid. I've heard
even God has a safety word—
I know what it must be.
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Issue 83
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Editor's Note
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POETRY
- Tory Adkisson
- Cynthia Atkins
- Simon Anton Niño Diego
Galera Baena - Daniel Barnum
- Nathan Blansett
- Julie E Bloemeke
- Daniel Bourne
- Jo Brachman
- Conor Bracken
- Christopher Citro
- Mary Crow
- Andy Eaton
- Jennifer Franklin
- Janlori Goldman
- Jose Hernandez Diaz
- Alison Hicks
- Michael Homolka
- Rogan Kelly
- Peter Kline
- Rodney Terich Leonard
- Thomas Mampalam
- Laura Marris
- Michael Montlack
- Amanda Moore
- Tanya Muzumdar
- Guimarães / Olsen
- Simon Perchik
- Sarah Perrier
- Megan Pinto
- Deborah Pope
- Denzel Xavier Scott
- Leona Sevick
- José Sotolongo
- Page Hill Starzinger
- Memye Curtis Tucker
- Laura Van Prooyen
- Hilary Varner
- John Sibley Williams
- Stella Wong
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BOOK REVIEW
- Clara Burghelea reviews Word Has It
by Ruth Danon - Kim Jacobs-Beck reviews Civil Bound
by Myung Mi Kim - Lindsay Lusby reviews Eve and All the Wrong Men
by Aviya Kushner - David Rigsbee reviews The Anti-Grief
by Marianne Boruch
- Clara Burghelea reviews Word Has It
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INTERVIEW
- Ruth Danon interviewed by Shauna Gilligan
Issue > Poetry
Peter Kline
Peter Kline teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has published poems in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, the Best New Poets series, and the Verse Daily website. He is the author of two poetry collections, Deviants (SFASU Press, 2013), and Mirrorforms, which is forthcoming from Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions in the fall of 2019.Poetry
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