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    Sand-Catcher

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 5, 2024
    Inspiration

    Contemporary Poets Respond (in Verse) to Taylor Swift

    By Kristie Frederick Daugherty  December 4, 2024
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    “Endlings”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 4, 2024
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    Rental House

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 3, 2024
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    The Divine Comedy

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 2, 2024
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    City of Night Birds

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 27, 2024
    Poetry

    “Portrait of My Mother Studying for Her Citizenship Exam,” a Poem by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva

    By Eduardo Martínez-Levya  November 26, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    “Flatten the Curve”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 26, 2024
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    “The Iceberg in My Living Room”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 25, 2024
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    “Balm of Life”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 22, 2024
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    An Earthquake is A Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 21, 2024
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    Brightly Shining

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 20, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    The City and Its Uncertain Walls

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 19, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    Rosenfeld

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 18, 2024
    Poetry

    “Anthropology,” a Poem by Ishion Hutchinson

    By Ishion Hutchinson  November 15, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    “Love Interbellum”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 15, 2024
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    Only Here, Only Now

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 14, 2024
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    Taiwan Travelogue

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 13, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Marcia Bjornerud on the Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  November 13, 2024
    Poetry

    The Poet of the Revolution: Read Newly Translated Work by One of Egypt’s Most Prominent Poets, Mostafa Ibrahim

    By Literary Hub  November 12, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    Every Arc Bends Its Radian

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 12, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    “Gopher”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 11, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on Time and Timelessness

    By Emergence Magazine  November 7, 2024
    Poetry

    “Mojave Ghost,” an Excerpt From the Poem by Forrest Gander

    By Forrest Gander  November 4, 2024
    Poetry

    From Ghostly Forests to “Zombie Vomit Mad Libs.” Seven Poetry Books to Read in November

    By Rebecca Morgan Frank  November 1, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    Masquerade

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 1, 2024
    Emergence Magazine

    Jane Hirshfield on Time, Mystery, and Kinship

    By Emergence Magazine  October 31, 2024
    Poetry

    “Inis Meáin,” a Poem by Gustav Parker Hibbett

    By Gustav Parker Hibbett  October 30, 2024
    Daily Fiction

    Call It Horses

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 30, 2024
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    Sister Deborah

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 29, 2024
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