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This Someone I Call Stranger, by James Diaz, is absolutely transcendent. Diaz's evocative and cou...
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Joseph Osmundson is a scientist and writer from rural Washington State. His writing has been publ...
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Le's furious and steeled voice leaves nothing unturned, propelling these poems through exploratio...
Because A Month of Someday doesn't waste a word, I'm tempted to quote lavishly from these wry, ec...
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In the Talmud, Rabbi Abaye says, 'The world has no fewer than thirty-six righteous people in each...
In Recruit to Deny, Buffy Shutt reminds us that poetry is not only about the well-chosen image or...
The electrifying body of poems in Tony Medina's Death, With Occasional Smiling speaks with blood-...
There is this moment in the sci-fi film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character, Coope...
Read 73 poems by 73 poets, written over the 73 days between President Donald Trump's election and...