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Featured Poem: “White Trash” by Sam Taylor

Featured Poem: “White Trash” by Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor White Trash  Walking toward the river, I saw— well, I didn’t know what I saw. I’d never seen so many—how many?  ten? twelve?—snowy egrets  at once, in a single tree overhanging the river, then realized it must be trash of some kind as if from...

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Featured Poem: Programmed by Carlina Duan

Featured Poem: Programmed by Carlina Duan

  PROGRAMMED Carlina Duan     it’s in the way the light moves, the doctor explains, as wài pó’s eyes follow ours in the summer room, as her legs droop over a wooden chair, dressed in the cotton pants we placed her in, her chin going soft against our...

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FEATURED POEM

FEATURED POEM

  Julie Danho     It’s terrible what’s happening there   people say, if it comes up I’m Syrian when my daughter mentions her “Sito” or I’m microwaving my kibbe at work. And it is. But I don’t need to tell you. You’ve heard the numbers of the dead. You’ve...

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