To Sing to Light the Dark: Editor’s Introduction

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Dan Beachy-Quick

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                                    Canto LIII (Atomic Braid)

                                    Chorus

                                    Homage

                                    Student of the Letter C

 

 

Kristi Maxwell

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                                    Poems from more alphabet [o]

                                    Poem from more alphabet [p]

 

 

Rodrigo Toscano

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                                    Gawkers II.

                                    Purposeful

                                    Glaciers

                                    Cat Lady

 

Julie Carr

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                                    Rat Lines

                                    Rat Lines: This Spring

                                    Rat Lines

                                    Rat Lines

                                    Rat Lines

 

 

J. Michael Martinez

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                                    Gutter Lamb

                                    First Kiss

                                    Gutter Dolls

                                    Infant’s Wooden Bead Maze, Tossed Among the Weeds

                                    We Can Never Have A Knowledge of God for We Are a Knowledge in God

 

 

Cyrus Cassells

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                                    The Artful Ingredient X or The Secret Family

                                    Poet and Son in Poppy Country

 

 

Alex Mattraw

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                                    Kill Your Anxiety

                                    Always Unspkoen

                                    He knew something about breeding

                                    Colossal

 

 

Cole Swensen

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                                    A Bowl of Oranges

                                    But the Shadow

                                    Recipe for Glass

                                    The Thimble

                                    Initially

                                    Shape

 

 

Maw Shein Win

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                                    object

                                    observe

                                    breathe

 

 

Gillian Conoley

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                                    You Who Were Left Over After the Stranger Has Passed

                                    All the bitterness of persimmons oranged to lure

                                    The fragile shell of something almost being said

 

                                   

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Gina Phillips             Visual Art Portfolio

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                                    Rex Cloud

                                    Borrow Pit

                                    Borrow Pit (detail)

                                    Bright, Dark, Dim, and Rogue

                                    Viale Dell'Ucciella

 

 

 

Dara Barrois/Dixon

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                                    Elsewhere

                                    Music Begins

 

Megan Breiseth

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                                    Tangible Sorcery

                                    When your mind gets dark

                                    Ease in Darkness

                                    Peace Chafes

                                    Keep Waking Up in Your Body

 

 

Joshua Edwards

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                                    Three poems from Twenty-Six Reflections

                                    The Lamp of Folklore

 

 

Mai-Linh Hong

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                                    Ní

                                    A Seam Is How

                                    mẹ / mother

                                    Roadtripping, I stop by a marsh to kill time

                                    Winter Animals

 

 

Joseph Lease

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                                    The Buried Life

 

 

Jay Gao

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                                    Bark, Archive, Splinter

                                    Bark, Archive, Splinter

                                    Bark, Archive, Splinter

                                    Bark, Archive, Splinter

 

 

Tiff Dressen

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                                    Postcard from Pelican’s Nest

                                    Postcard from Little River

                                    I remember 1878 Market Street

 

 

Elizabeth Robinson

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                                    Nacreous

                                    The Kernel, the Core

                                    Covering

 

 

Rosmarie Waldrop

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                                    They Have Vanished, the Things of This World

 

 

 

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