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Summer 2024

Summer 2024. Vol. 47 No.1

Poetry

Lanugo

By Zoë Mills
I look my girl in her dog face Her horrible brow and long snout What made my girl like this I brush her human hair long behind her sharp human shoulders Careful...

What Do People Do at Night?

By Brandi Bird
The cat licks her leg so long it starts to bleed I soak prozac in her food Make a meal described in a memoir about eating disorders I misspell memoir as memori...

Reviews

Pigeon Woman by May Swenson

Reviewed by Gary Lemco

Nightlight by David Barrick

Reviewed by SJ Grimes

Letdown by Sonia Greenfield

Reviewed by Jeri Theriault

The Truth is Told Better This Way by Liz Worth

Reviewed by Melanie Janisse-Barlow

Throwing the Diamond Hitch by Emily Ursuliak

Reviewed by Michael Roberson

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