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October 2023

Cover artist: Carlo Cadenas
By nature, we poets tend many unquenchable flames.
 Kiki Petrosino
  • Patricia Spears Jones
  • CooXooEii Black
  • Kimiko Hahn
  • Ray González
  • Paul Guest
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From this Issue

Poem
By Richard Siken
I crawled to the front door and swung it open so the ambulance could find me. It seemed like a strange thing to do, since I hadn’t called for an ambulance, so I crawled to the end of the sidewalk and sat there, which still didn’t make sense. All the condos look the same, so it was going to be difficult to find me if the door wasn...
Poem
By Gabriel Ramirez
I couldn’t be who I am
today if it wasn’t for you
being dead. It was time
for glitter, nail polish, and locs...
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