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02/16/2023

About Face

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Thirty Days Past Due

by Gabrielle Nigmond

02/13/2023

Morbid Adoration

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A De Trop Tour of the Tombs of Paris

by Sadie Agg

02/09/2023

Tom Verlaine

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Recalling how lightning struck itself

by Matt Hanson

02/06/2023

Point Nemo

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Jesus Christ, Jeffrey Bezos, and Geosynchronous Satellites

by Andy Butter

02/02/2023

Indie, From Afar

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I was somewhere

by Carter Vance

01/30/2023

Cobble Hill

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reflections on residence

by Robert Boucheron

01/26/2023

more than a door

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Greatest hits albums, second looks, kissing cousins, and some Sam Cooke

by Colin Fleming

01/23/2023

Growing Season

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Planting a flower for a bee

by Olga Kovalenko

01/19/2023

John Coast

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a modernist experiment in biography/a challenging experience in legacy

by Scott Anthony

01/12/2023

It was good for the part I was woke

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a polysemous awakening

by Phyllis Hooten

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