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Fiction and Poetry

“Sexting is Roleplay About Desire,” a Prose Poem by Vera Blossom

The Rest Is Memory

No Place to Bury the Dead

“Dissociation” and “Central Park, Nocturne,” Two Poems by David McLoghlin

Woo Woo

Sand-Catcher

Contemporary Poets Respond (in Verse) to Taylor Swift

“Endlings”

Rental House

The Divine Comedy

City of Night Birds

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

“Flatten the Curve”

“The Iceberg in My Living Room”

“Balm of Life”

An Earthquake is A Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

Brightly Shining

Rosenfeld

“Anthropology,” a Poem by Ishion Hutchinson

“Love Interbellum”

Only Here, Only Now

Taiwan Travelogue

Marcia Bjornerud on the Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth

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

Every Arc Bends Its Radian

“Gopher”

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on Time and Timelessness

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

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

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