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The English Teacher

i am a student from bangladesh. Julia Smith circled the “i” and the “b” with her red-ink ballpoint pen, her purple glasses hanging over her nose. She was sitting in her office marking papers. This particular one had...

Gemini Wahhaj
06/22/2022
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Six Poems by Tomaž Šalamun

*Translated by Brian Henry   “I saw how the planet fell” I saw how the planet fell. Hands became bumblebees. Apples sharpened my teeth in the first age of gold. Bumblebees became foil. The foil is recorded as A, as...

Tomaž Šalamun
06/16/2022
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Three Poems by Stephanie Burt

MY 1993 I lived in a closet. Also I lived in a closet Belonging to my then-best friend’s then-beau Who lived with three other men in a Central Square Walk-up, spacious and sunlit, except For the closet. The closet...

Stephanie Burt
06/09/2022
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COPESTONE

Red lights flash. Under clear protective outerwear suits masks are lifted from necks or pulled from bags, purses, and briefcases. Wishing they could come up with outerwear that would protect against the phage...

Deborah Prespare
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The English Teacher

i am a student from bangladesh. Julia Smith circled the “i” and the “b” with her red-ink ballpoint pen, her purple glasses hanging over her nose. She was sitting in her office marking papers. This particular one had...

Gemini Wahhaj
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COPESTONE

Red lights flash. Under clear protective outerwear suits masks are lifted from necks or pulled from bags, purses, and briefcases. Wishing they could come up with outerwear that would protect against the phage...

Deborah Prespare
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Movie Night

I’ve been keeping something from my husband.  I don’t anticipate this changing any time soon, as I’m concerned about the aftermath of confession. I’m not afraid of Aidan.  Don’t even go there.  Aidan is one of those...

Colette Parris
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BANANA FACTORY

Mike checked the gauges, and the buncher hissed like it was satisfied with a cruel new law it had just made up. “What would you do out there anyway?” Mike shouted over the earplugs. He motioned at the window half hidden...

Jon Fotch
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Ukraine Diaries

Hello everyone! My name is Kate, I am from Ukraine, and I want to share my story with you now. I was born in Dnipro – it’s a city located in center-east Ukraine. My grandmothers were born in 1939, and they still...

Kateryna Ozatska
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New Prayer for Peace

May we see the day when war and bloodshed cease, when a great peace will embrace the whole world and right now especially Ukraine; when all who live on earth shall realize we have not come into being to drop bombs on...

Miriam Fried