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by Sergio Ortiz

There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Emily Dickinson, poem 599   The windows open to the guardianship of the sun.   But there is distant smoke in its presence, traces of an aftermath,   a landslide of fumes vacating the shredded heart,   a porous sea, a sliding […]

Family Romance, LLC and How to Make a Family
by Marie Johnson

“Maybe it was my other daughter.” Turning toward the bathroom, I realized what my mom had already noticed: The garbage can was overturned. I emptied the trash and forgot to put it back in its original position. In a flurry of chores, I was not consciously trying to leave it awry. Maybe this “other daughter” […]

New Media/Digital Poetry and the Body
by Amanda Hodes

<h1> The body is. The body is not. What is the body when it is not the body? What can a body be when it is not the body? Is the body ever just the body? What is the body even when we claim it is not the body? </h1> <h2> This is what I […]

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