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  • Different Life/Different Poems [by Ellen Steinbaum]

    May 23, 2014

    It’s one of those clubs you don’t want to join, but since I didn’t get a choice, I am proud to be among the voices–brave, diverse, honest–in The Widows’ Handbook. Some of the writers…

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  • APIA Series: Cathy Linh Che Poem and Interview [by Sally Wen Mao]

    May 22, 2014

    Next up in the APIA series, we have Cathy Linh Che! I’m lucky to go on a book tour, Honey Badgers Don’t Give a B**k Tour, with Cathy this summer – fearless Asian American…

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  • Throwback Thursday: David Lehman and Piotr Sommer, Poland, 2005

    May 22, 2014

    Piotr Sommer and David Lehman, Warsaw, October 2005.

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  • “Autobiography” [by Amy Leigh Cutler]

    May 22, 2014

    I am afraidshe cannot save mebut watch how the birdsgather her in circles she knows something I do notor why would she hold her chin that waywhile I am hunched"in the forest eating my…

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  • Inertia [poem by Susan Elliott Brown]

    May 22, 2014

     Before it was lit, the cigarettelay dormant in the pack. A setof foreign lighters from our tripabroad didn’t always have a chippedcase. Colors depict a banneret in battle, saving a small brunette;I’m reminded of…

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  • APIA Series: R.A. Villanueva Poem and Interview [by Sally Wen Mao]

    May 21, 2014

    Next up in our APIA Kundiman poetry series: R.A. Villanueva! R.A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, his honors include the…

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