Evening with Washington

by Carl Dennis

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This piece is part of our Fall 2018 print issue.

Carl Dennis

Carl Dennis‘s thirteenth book of poems Night School will be published this spring by Penguin. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Ruth Lilly Prize, he lives in Buffalo, New York.

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doll in glass

by Kathleen Hellen

(as if that could contain her). Not a toy, Okaasan said. Kiyohime: who thrilled in my imagination when she danced—six hats cascading from her hand transforming from silk and gold brocade to scales that snaked around flirtations when I pillowed dragon’s fire when I painted face in oyster shell becoming ghastly when monked by stupid

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Severed: A Statement on the Ludicrous Nature of African Repatriation

by Artress Bethany White

This piece is part of our Fall/Winter 2020 print issue.

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kill all lies

by Didi Jackson

I was dead an entire spring.
I lost clumps of hair
and my nails peeled and flaked

Spring 2015

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