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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

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June 2022 / Poetry

The Lost Manuscript

June 10, 2022 - by Dmytro Kremin

Already manuscripts are burning, / and the snow from Chornobyl is flying

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Poet Jana Prikryl
June 2022 / Poetry

Our Second

June 1, 2022 - by Jana Prikryl

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

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May 2022 / Poetry

Heaven Spot

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

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

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Arts & Culture

Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference

May 5, 2022May 30, 2022 - by Carmine Starnino

Machines are putting out astonishingly human writing. What does that mean for the future of art?

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May 2022 / Poetry

Ballad

April 27, 2022 - by Luke Hathaway

after David Thomson

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May 2022 / Poetry

Bookmark

April 19, 2022 - by Oubah Osman

The past moves me / into previously / occupied bedrooms

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Environment

Early Warning Signals: How Poetry Helps Us Understand Our Impact on Ecology

April 13, 2022April 13, 2022 - by Madhur Anand

The environmental crisis is, in part, a crisis of the imagination. Poems can create a new form of knowing

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March/April 2022 / Poetry

Quasheba’s Lament

March 29, 2022March 30, 2022 - by Lorna Goodison

I taste my own salt blood / and remind myself I am still alive

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March/April 2022 / Poetry

Heel Poem / Black-Hooded

March 8, 2022March 9, 2022 - by Tolu Oloruntoba

I want a crane poem to / deconstruct the sarcophagus-heavy helmet and corset, the luminescent poster-sun on the wall

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