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We'll be reading with Tyger Quarterly and The Year off-set at AWP this Friday, featuring Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Emily Bark Brown, @deesoulpoetry.com, James Garwood-Cole, Emily Pittinos, and Sophia Terazawa. Hope to see you there!
mouthguard. kneepads. ergonomic helmet. but lost in the nature of range finding.
"prairie" from Ken Taylor
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"prairie" from Ken Taylor
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Poetry, Week 36: Ken Taylor — DIALOGIST
prairie my teeth caked with little bluestem and café au lait is a face plant in a dream. effigy of mommy with her walker behind in the wake of swaying grass erased between us. she shrinks below stud...
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September 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM
mouthguard. kneepads. ergonomic helmet. but lost in the nature of range finding.
"prairie" from Ken Taylor
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"prairie" from Ken Taylor
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"Shame certainty. Shame the shade / that offers its noun to you."
Three rhapsodies from Elizabeth Robinson
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Three rhapsodies from Elizabeth Robinson
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Poetry, Week 35: Elizabeth Robinson — DIALOGIST
Shade Rhapsody Shelter in this. Shave off its edges. A shine bounces off the ruined floor. Sugar the windowsills to lure in strangers. Swallow shade to shush the light. Su...
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August 28, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"Shame certainty. Shame the shade / that offers its noun to you."
Three rhapsodies from Elizabeth Robinson
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Three rhapsodies from Elizabeth Robinson
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I'm super stoked to have two poems from my forthcoming second book published today in @dialogist.bsky.social --https://dialogist.org/poetry/2026-week-34-brett-hanley ! Thanks so much to the editors!
Poetry, Week 34: Brett Hanley — DIALOGIST
Flammable Pantoum For as long as we could, we waited and tended the man who smelled like petroleum, flammable man who feared we were half his, all hers. We tended the incendiary ma...
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August 22, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I'm super stoked to have two poems from my forthcoming second book published today in @dialogist.bsky.social --https://dialogist.org/poetry/2026-week-34-brett-hanley ! Thanks so much to the editors!
"Fuck / good. Fuck precisely the place within me that thinks / what’s written is not enough."
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Poetry, Week 29: Susan L. Leary — DIALOGIST
Today fuck these people fuck these guards fuck this building fuck this food fuck these clothes I comb the pages for a good line. I comb the pages for meaning & metaphor, for grammar & prop...
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July 18, 2026 at 3:42 PM
"Fuck / good. Fuck precisely the place within me that thinks / what’s written is not enough."
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Today's listing of the day is: DIALOGIST @dialogist.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
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April 14, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Today's listing of the day is: DIALOGIST @dialogist.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
We'll be reading with Tyger Quarterly and The Year off-set at AWP this Friday, featuring Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Emily Bark Brown, @deesoulpoetry.com, James Garwood-Cole, Emily Pittinos, and Sophia Terazawa. Hope to see you there!
March 4, 2026 at 4:25 PM
We'll be reading with Tyger Quarterly and The Year off-set at AWP this Friday, featuring Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Emily Bark Brown, @deesoulpoetry.com, James Garwood-Cole, Emily Pittinos, and Sophia Terazawa. Hope to see you there!
"My son doesn’t believe in the multiverse. / When asked? Math."
Poem in Which Touch is a Theory and After My Son and I Decide Which Selfie by Alexa Doran, who currently works as an Assistant Professor English at Tallahassee State College.
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Poem in Which Touch is a Theory and After My Son and I Decide Which Selfie by Alexa Doran, who currently works as an Assistant Professor English at Tallahassee State College.
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Poetry, Week 36: Alexa Doran — DIALOGIST
After My Son and I Decide Which Selfie makes me look skinny, I launch my botched ass body across the algorithms #FilterFree. I know Frost meant exactly this branch, this road. But I only under...
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September 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"My son doesn’t believe in the multiverse. / When asked? Math."
Poem in Which Touch is a Theory and After My Son and I Decide Which Selfie by Alexa Doran, who currently works as an Assistant Professor English at Tallahassee State College.
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Poem in Which Touch is a Theory and After My Son and I Decide Which Selfie by Alexa Doran, who currently works as an Assistant Professor English at Tallahassee State College.
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"Swallow, / will you sing me your song?"
My Father’s God by Jon Provens, an Argentine-American writer and educator currently based in Southern California.
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My Father’s God by Jon Provens, an Argentine-American writer and educator currently based in Southern California.
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Poetry, Week 35: Jon Provens — DIALOGIST
My Father’s God is a silent one. Better disguised than the praying mantis and not once recanted. A flame flickered shadow, broken-winged sparrow in my living room, whom I’ve witnessed tend to ...
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September 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Swallow, / will you sing me your song?"
My Father’s God by Jon Provens, an Argentine-American writer and educator currently based in Southern California.
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My Father’s God by Jon Provens, an Argentine-American writer and educator currently based in Southern California.
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"Where’s he / from, what’s his mission, why’s he here on this floor / in this particular exhibition?"
People by Todd Boss, who is working on three novels, a nonfiction project, a choral operetta, and a screenplay.
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People by Todd Boss, who is working on three novels, a nonfiction project, a choral operetta, and a screenplay.
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Poetry, Week 34: Todd Boss — DIALOGIST
People steal scenes. The sweeping green sward, the flock- dotted forest, the far-distant steeple, and the steep cliff of palette-knifed cumulonimbi ought to be enough, but no, the Dutch mas...
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September 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Where’s he / from, what’s his mission, why’s he here on this floor / in this particular exhibition?"
People by Todd Boss, who is working on three novels, a nonfiction project, a choral operetta, and a screenplay.
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People by Todd Boss, who is working on three novels, a nonfiction project, a choral operetta, and a screenplay.
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"centennial of daily specials..."
it’s just a ride by Jonathan Focht, who lives in Northern Ontario, Canada.
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it’s just a ride by Jonathan Focht, who lives in Northern Ontario, Canada.
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Poetry, Week 33: Jonathan Focht — DIALOGIST
it’s just a ride centennial of daily specials czech pilsner full-pour a dull illness thought better exponential direction adventure keep adding to it more of it faster sending horse stealers t...
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September 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"centennial of daily specials..."
it’s just a ride by Jonathan Focht, who lives in Northern Ontario, Canada.
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it’s just a ride by Jonathan Focht, who lives in Northern Ontario, Canada.
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"3:00 p.m."
a quiet list of unsettled matters when i go to the grocery store by Sophia Pan, who is from Chicago, IL and loves reading and writing slightly disturbed poetry.
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a quiet list of unsettled matters when i go to the grocery store by Sophia Pan, who is from Chicago, IL and loves reading and writing slightly disturbed poetry.
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Poetry, Week 32: Sophia Pan — DIALOGIST
a quiet list of unsettled matters when i go to the grocery store 3:00 p.m. i. cotton blooming orange &nb...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
"3:00 p.m."
a quiet list of unsettled matters when i go to the grocery store by Sophia Pan, who is from Chicago, IL and loves reading and writing slightly disturbed poetry.
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a quiet list of unsettled matters when i go to the grocery store by Sophia Pan, who is from Chicago, IL and loves reading and writing slightly disturbed poetry.
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"How, if at all, does a feeling unwind?"
Art & Objecthood & Still Life with Airstrike and Kant by Cindy King. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she currently lives in Utah, where she is a professor of creative writing at Utah Tech University.
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Art & Objecthood & Still Life with Airstrike and Kant by Cindy King. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she currently lives in Utah, where she is a professor of creative writing at Utah Tech University.
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Poetry, Week 31: Cindy King — DIALOGIST
Art & Objecthood I like losing my breath, Pollocking in the wind, white as bleached coral, stiff as the wrist of a Post-Expressionist. Expressing with all the elegance of a busted tongue ...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
"How, if at all, does a feeling unwind?"
Art & Objecthood & Still Life with Airstrike and Kant by Cindy King. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she currently lives in Utah, where she is a professor of creative writing at Utah Tech University.
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Art & Objecthood & Still Life with Airstrike and Kant by Cindy King. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she currently lives in Utah, where she is a professor of creative writing at Utah Tech University.
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"There are insects in the canopy."
At the Heart of a Spiral & Under a Burnt Out Sun by Will Sheets, an undergrad student at the University of Richmond studying Creative Writing and English.
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At the Heart of a Spiral & Under a Burnt Out Sun by Will Sheets, an undergrad student at the University of Richmond studying Creative Writing and English.
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Poetry, Week 30: Will Sheets — DIALOGIST
At the Heart of a Spiral Michael stands before me, says he knows my bible better than he knows the earth we try not to tread upon. His smile carries a mass, isolated and levitated. His smile car...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"There are insects in the canopy."
At the Heart of a Spiral & Under a Burnt Out Sun by Will Sheets, an undergrad student at the University of Richmond studying Creative Writing and English.
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At the Heart of a Spiral & Under a Burnt Out Sun by Will Sheets, an undergrad student at the University of Richmond studying Creative Writing and English.
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"You sit at your desk, starving, trying to transfer $400 from your savings to your checking account..."
Direct Address by Robin Arble, who studied writing and literature at Hampshire College and lives in New York.
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Direct Address by Robin Arble, who studied writing and literature at Hampshire College and lives in New York.
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Poetry, Week 29: Robin Arble — DIALOGIST
Direct Address You sit at your desk, starving, trying to transfer $400 from your savings to your checking account in case the Massachusetts Health Connector refuses to pay for your next 90-day supp...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"You sit at your desk, starving, trying to transfer $400 from your savings to your checking account..."
Direct Address by Robin Arble, who studied writing and literature at Hampshire College and lives in New York.
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Direct Address by Robin Arble, who studied writing and literature at Hampshire College and lives in New York.
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"Picture this: darkest draped cloth, magnesium powder flash / from a match..."
Ripples by Stephen Mead, a retiree whom, throughout all his pretty non-glamorous jobs still found time for writing poetry/essays and creating art.
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Ripples by Stephen Mead, a retiree whom, throughout all his pretty non-glamorous jobs still found time for writing poetry/essays and creating art.
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Poetry, Week 28: Stephen Mead — DIALOGIST
Ripples Picture this: darkest draped cloth, magnesium powder flash from a match, & slight smoke quickly drifting over figures for forever or for ever how long that image may last. F...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"Picture this: darkest draped cloth, magnesium powder flash / from a match..."
Ripples by Stephen Mead, a retiree whom, throughout all his pretty non-glamorous jobs still found time for writing poetry/essays and creating art.
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Ripples by Stephen Mead, a retiree whom, throughout all his pretty non-glamorous jobs still found time for writing poetry/essays and creating art.
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"Tell me, how do you become / less animal without becoming more ghost?"
Unparented Rituals by Penny Wei, a poet from Shanghai and Massachusetts.
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Unparented Rituals by Penny Wei, a poet from Shanghai and Massachusetts.
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Poetry, Week 27: Penny Wei — DIALOGIST
Unparented Rituals My grandfather devours carambola in the bathtub, the faucet’s underlip weeps, clotted ochres where the enamel resigned. Something unsaintly ferments in the belly of a drain, or a...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"Tell me, how do you become / less animal without becoming more ghost?"
Unparented Rituals by Penny Wei, a poet from Shanghai and Massachusetts.
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Unparented Rituals by Penny Wei, a poet from Shanghai and Massachusetts.
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"Yes, / I’ll sweep up. A pile of ends / just beginning to bend."
LENGTHS, THE LANDLORD, & SUPERSTITION by Miss Jackson Newbern (they/them), a poet from Georgia.
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LENGTHS, THE LANDLORD, & SUPERSTITION by Miss Jackson Newbern (they/them), a poet from Georgia.
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Poetry, Week 26: Miss Jackson Newbern — DIALOGIST
LENGTHS When I come in, my friend is in the middle of giving her boyfriend a trim. Chair drug into the kitchen where the hair won’t get stuck in the rug. Once she introduces us, he can’t seem to re...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Yes, / I’ll sweep up. A pile of ends / just beginning to bend."
LENGTHS, THE LANDLORD, & SUPERSTITION by Miss Jackson Newbern (they/them), a poet from Georgia.
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LENGTHS, THE LANDLORD, & SUPERSTITION by Miss Jackson Newbern (they/them), a poet from Georgia.
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"In the neighborhood Rite Aid, museum / of my gay awakening, I was browsing / butterfly mascara as her voice spoke / through Bruno Mars."
Self-Portrait as Lesbian Artifact by Arushee Bhoja, a queer Indian-American poet from California.
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Self-Portrait as Lesbian Artifact by Arushee Bhoja, a queer Indian-American poet from California.
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Poetry, Week 25: Arushee Bhoja — DIALOGIST
Self-Portrait as Lesbian Artifact In the neighborhood Rite Aid, museum of my gay awakening, I was browsing butterfly mascara as her voice spoke through Bruno Mars. By this point, everything sounded l...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In the neighborhood Rite Aid, museum / of my gay awakening, I was browsing / butterfly mascara as her voice spoke / through Bruno Mars."
Self-Portrait as Lesbian Artifact by Arushee Bhoja, a queer Indian-American poet from California.
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Self-Portrait as Lesbian Artifact by Arushee Bhoja, a queer Indian-American poet from California.
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"What does the hand / of God feel like? I ask you."
Hold On by Lisa Compo, a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program who obtained her MFA from UNC – Greensboro.
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Hold On by Lisa Compo, a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program who obtained her MFA from UNC – Greensboro.
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Poetry, Week 24: Lisa Compo — DIALOGIST
Hold On
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July 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"What does the hand / of God feel like? I ask you."
Hold On by Lisa Compo, a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program who obtained her MFA from UNC – Greensboro.
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Hold On by Lisa Compo, a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program who obtained her MFA from UNC – Greensboro.
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"Listen, / it isn’t the drag queens stripping / my kids of Medicaid."
Junk Hour by Josh Luckenbach, a Web Editor for the Coalition for Community Writing.
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Junk Hour by Josh Luckenbach, a Web Editor for the Coalition for Community Writing.
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Poetry, Week 23: Josh Luckenbach — DIALOGIST
Junk Hour
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July 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Listen, / it isn’t the drag queens stripping / my kids of Medicaid."
Junk Hour by Josh Luckenbach, a Web Editor for the Coalition for Community Writing.
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Junk Hour by Josh Luckenbach, a Web Editor for the Coalition for Community Writing.
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"Someone had left me a book with two definitions of a door:
the first is simply an entrance."
After the Metal Door Stopper by Connor Arakaki, a writer at Yale University, where they serve as the current Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Herald.
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the first is simply an entrance."
After the Metal Door Stopper by Connor Arakaki, a writer at Yale University, where they serve as the current Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Herald.
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Poetry, Week 22: Connor Arakaki — DIALOGIST
After the Metal Door Stopper
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July 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Someone had left me a book with two definitions of a door:
the first is simply an entrance."
After the Metal Door Stopper by Connor Arakaki, a writer at Yale University, where they serve as the current Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Herald.
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the first is simply an entrance."
After the Metal Door Stopper by Connor Arakaki, a writer at Yale University, where they serve as the current Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Herald.
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"The place you want kissed is temple, / [slepoočnica]—I remember."
Temple by Mirthe van Popering, a writer and translator based in Berlin. Her work dismantles—moving through rupture, subversion, and the strange edges of desire.
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Temple by Mirthe van Popering, a writer and translator based in Berlin. Her work dismantles—moving through rupture, subversion, and the strange edges of desire.
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Poetry, Week 21: Mirthe van Popering — DIALOGIST
Temple I. [slepo] something blind A Dr. med. warns my face, paternally inflected, Slim projection , he says. It is invisibly nestled in the seam of me ...
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June 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"The place you want kissed is temple, / [slepoočnica]—I remember."
Temple by Mirthe van Popering, a writer and translator based in Berlin. Her work dismantles—moving through rupture, subversion, and the strange edges of desire.
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Temple by Mirthe van Popering, a writer and translator based in Berlin. Her work dismantles—moving through rupture, subversion, and the strange edges of desire.
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"In a dream, grandmother commands me bol! / and I speak to the ancestor in my bone."
Sestina In Which I Try to Escape My Inheritance by Hafsa Zulfiqar, a poet from Pakistan.
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Sestina In Which I Try to Escape My Inheritance by Hafsa Zulfiqar, a poet from Pakistan.
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Poetry, Week 20: Hafsa Zulfiqar — DIALOGIST
Sestina In Which I Try to Escape My Inheritance In a dream, grandmother commands me bol! and I speak to the ancestor in my bone. Stuttering words cross borders, unstitching themselves f...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"In a dream, grandmother commands me bol! / and I speak to the ancestor in my bone."
Sestina In Which I Try to Escape My Inheritance by Hafsa Zulfiqar, a poet from Pakistan.
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Sestina In Which I Try to Escape My Inheritance by Hafsa Zulfiqar, a poet from Pakistan.
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"calling his / brother ishmael to ask him for the netflix password."
genesis 22:19 by Michel Krysiak, a philosophy research student, currently residing in Kyoto. They write in English and Polish. This is their first published poem.
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genesis 22:19 by Michel Krysiak, a philosophy research student, currently residing in Kyoto. They write in English and Polish. This is their first published poem.
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Poetry, Week 19: Michel Krysiak — DIALOGIST
genesis 22:19 so abraham returned to his young men with isaac, and they arose and went together to beer-sheba; and abraham and isaac live at beer-sheba. now after these things...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"calling his / brother ishmael to ask him for the netflix password."
genesis 22:19 by Michel Krysiak, a philosophy research student, currently residing in Kyoto. They write in English and Polish. This is their first published poem.
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genesis 22:19 by Michel Krysiak, a philosophy research student, currently residing in Kyoto. They write in English and Polish. This is their first published poem.
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