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Black and white portrait of James Langer superimposed on an orange background.

June 2022 / Poetry

New Adventures in Hi-Fi

June 14, 2022 - by James Langer

No bread crumbs left to return us, but diversions / Lobbed beyond a blind hill into the unforeseeable

June 2022 / Poetry

Our Second

June 1, 2022 - by Jana Prikryl

one thing constantly / enters another, becoming not one with it

Greyscale photograph of Jim Johnstone superimposed on an orange background.

May 2022 / Poetry

Heaven Spot

May 9, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Jim Johnstone

A line, a lip, a like- / ness reclaimed

Greyscale portrait of Luke Hathaway superimposed against a green background.

May 2022 / Poetry

Ballad

April 27, 2022 - by Luke Hathaway

after David Thomson

Greyscale portrait of Oubah Osman against a blue background.

May 2022 / Poetry

Bookmark

April 19, 2022 - by Oubah Osman

The past moves me / into previously / occupied bedrooms

A photo illustration of Steven Heighton in front of a purple and green background

Arts & Culture

Poet Steven Heighton on Writing, Making Music, and Literally Losing His Voice

January 21, 2022January 22, 2022 - by Rob Taylor

The author of nineteen books explains why success won’t make you happy

Greyscale photograph of Gary Barwin against a green background.

January/February 2022 / Poetry

Something Else

January 20, 2022 - by Gary Barwin

your urn was / exactly as you’d wanted

January/February 2022 / Poetry

The Climbing Vine

January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 - by Karen Solie

the structure’s joints creaked / and the muscles stood out in the nails

Greyscale photograph of Bruce Taylor against a blue background.

December 2021 / Poetry

I’ve Had a Good Life. I’ve Been Water-Skiing

December 9, 2021 - by Bruce Taylor

Was all of this enough? / I won a game, I won a game again

A photo of poet Molly Peacock against a red background

December 2021 / Poetry

Today My Task Is the Codicil

November 23, 2021 - by Molly Peacock

I’ve had my pomegranate life. / Seeds sluicing red . . . Rose affection

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