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    After Carrie Kinsey’s Letter to Theodore Roosevelt

    By Shane McCrae  February 21, 2019
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    American Pop

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    The White Book

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    Death Is Hard Work

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    One Another

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    ‘Captivity’A Poem by Paige Ackerson-Kiely

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    Territory of Light

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    Rutting Season: Stories

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    From C.D. Wright’s Final Book Casting Deep Shade

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    American Spy

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    Three Poems by Thea Brown

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    The Study of Animal Languages

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    The Familiars

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    “The Waters of Time”

    By Mia Couto  February 6, 2019
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    ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’A Poem by Morgan Parker

    By Morgan Parker  February 5, 2019
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    Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary

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    The Man Who Couldn’t Die

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    The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 1, 2019
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    ‘Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter,’A Poem by Robert Bly

    By Robert Bly  January 31, 2019
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    Honey in the Carcase

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    How Did an Architect of the Slam Poetry Scene Become Its Public Enemy No. 1?

    By Vangmayi Parakala  January 30, 2019
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    Golden Child

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 30, 2019
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    The End of Loneliness

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 29, 2019
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    Two Poems by Hala Alyan

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    “Prickly Jasmine”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 28, 2019
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    “Duty,” A Poem by Sarah Gambito

    By Sarah Gambito  January 25, 2019
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    “Sugar Baby”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 25, 2019
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    The Enlightened Army

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    Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

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    On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

    By Jeanna Kadlec  January 23, 2019
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