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FIRST MEMORYby Timothy Liu

/ / Published in Issue 2, Poetry

My mother in a stupor,
stumbling down

the hallway in panties
soaked in blood—

my hand leading her
back to bed.

 

 

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Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse. Translated into ten languages, Liu’s journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. Liu is a Professor of English at William Paterson University and lives with his husband in Manhattan. Read more at www.timothyliu.comuf.com.

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ISSUE 2

POETRY

Cat Richardson, “Make Me Jump Into the Air”

Timothy Liu,  “Anonymous,” “First Memory,” and “On the Separation of Adam and Eve”

Sara Uribe, “Edge (Filo)” and “January (Enero)”  (Translated by Toshiya Kamei)

Brandon Courtney, “Gringo”

Vievee Francis, “Epicurean” and “Chimera”

Allison Seay, “Gossip Town” and “Town of the Beloved”

Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, “Boy in a Field”

Matthew Haughton, “Moles”

Gerardo Mena, “The Dangers of Time Travel”

Kevin Heaton, “Hook Echoes”

Mary Lou Buschi, “Spell I”

Muriel Nelson, “Lift”

Lynne Procope, “New York to Philadelphia”

FICTION

Paul Lisicky, “Lent”

Megan Staffel, “Saturdays at the Philharmonic”

Jen Julian, “Hagridden”

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