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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
Who'd Rob God?
You break it you pay for it.
I'm so very bored with all my jesuses today.
I already talked to them in a baby voice
and by them, I mean all of them
baby jesuses I stole from target.
I targeted each and every one—
I lifted them. I lifted them from the shelf.
Shop lifted? I'd rather not,
that word's no fun
at all. They were just, wow
so funny looking. You know how medieval babies
were really just full size men, or how
cherubs are ambiguously sexed?
Maybe I'll talk to my jesuses in my daddy voice next.
One Child Policy Is the Party Pickup Line
There's an eagle that has
usually
one child.
If it has two it will choose
only
one to take
care of, & purposefully
mistreat the other
so it dies.
The bigger sibling pecks
the little one so he's more shitty
looking.
So the parents feed the bigger
one & they eventually ditch
the little one in the middle
of nowhere. So it dies.
And so it goes.
I would peck you now if I could.
Peck you on the cheek.
On the cheek until
the cheekbone was exposed.
I feel like you would look good
eating red Jello.
You know
red Jello is made out of gelatin,
bone?
I'll enjoy
my ride in
to hell now.
Next to all the writers from the Inquisition.
usually
one child.
If it has two it will choose
only
one to take
care of, & purposefully
mistreat the other
so it dies.
The bigger sibling pecks
the little one so he's more shitty
looking.
So the parents feed the bigger
one & they eventually ditch
the little one in the middle
of nowhere. So it dies.
And so it goes.
I would peck you now if I could.
Peck you on the cheek.
On the cheek until
the cheekbone was exposed.
I feel like you would look good
eating red Jello.
You know
red Jello is made out of gelatin,
bone?
I'll enjoy
my ride in
to hell now.
Next to all the writers from the Inquisition.