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Alex Dimitrov
“Love”
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Sharon Mesmer
“Flood the World with Beauty”
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Jericho Brown
“Duplex (I begin with love)”
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Charif Shanahan
“Conversation in Long Future Time”
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Featured Work in Volume 49, No. 01
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Alex Dimitrov
“Love”
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  • Jai Bashir
Jai Hamid Bashir
“Feral, Untold Grace”
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Robyn Schiff
“Parent-Child Fencing Class”
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Philip Metres
“Mixtape for my Twenties”
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  • francine j harris
francine j. harris
“Ablate the Suncups, not the Ice: An Incantation”
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Paul Guest
“2020”
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Maggie Queeney Awarded 2019 Kunitz Prize
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Our heartfelt congratulations to Tyree Daye, winner of the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, on also winning the 2019 Whiting Award!
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