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  • Autumn Haikus from “Next Line, Please” [by Virginia Valenzuela]

    November 14, 2017

      Just when I think I've learned all the tricks up his sleeve, the ever impressive, devilishly clever David Lehman finds a way to wow us, yet again! In this week's installment of Next…

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  • Contributor Spotlight: Ernestine Hayes [by Kristina Marie Darling]

    November 14, 2017

      In anticipation of Tupelo Press’s forthcoming anthology project, Native Voices, I’m pleased to continue a series of posts honoring Indigenous poetry from North America. But first, I’d like to say a few words…

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  • Gorilla Glue (by Mitch Sisskind)

    November 13, 2017

    My friend died and a few days laterIn a dream called me on my cell;‘Hey how are you doing?’ he said.‘I can’t complain,’ was my reply,‘And you? How is it being dead?’A brief silence…

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  • Contributor Spotlight: An Interview with Ishmael Angaluuk Hope

    November 13, 2017

      In anticipation of Tupelo Press’s forthcoming anthology project, Native Voices, I’m pleased to continue a series of posts honoring Indigenous poetry from North America. But first, I’d like to say a few words…

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  • “Poem” [by Thomas Moody]

    November 10, 2017

      It would be nice if, as St John of the Cross teaches,My soul would leave my body each night and washItself clean of worldly desires, as if sin could be divestedLike calories from…

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  • Poet Spotlight: Michael Wasson [by Kristina Marie Darling]

    November 10, 2017

      In anticipation of Tupelo Press’s forthcoming anthology project, Native Voices, I’m pleased to continue a series of posts honoring Indigenous poetry from North America. But first, I’d like to say a few words…

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