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Keith S. Wilson
“Ode to the Police”
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Jenny Browne
“Until the Sea Closed Over Us and the Light Was Gone”
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Jay Deshpande
“Sonnet written walking under the mess some magnolia made”
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Carrie Fountain
“The Jungle”
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Featured Work in Volume 49, No. 05
  • Keith S Wilson
Keith S. Wilson
“Ode to the Police”
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Pattie McCarthy
“intertidal ordinary”
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Camille Dungy
“To enter our own empty house”
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Stephen S. Mills
“In Life We Dance at a Gay Bar Named After a Dead First Lady”
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  • Safia Elhillo
Safia Elhillo
“The Animal”
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  • Joy Priest
Joy Priest
“A Personal History of Breathing”
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