Tag: Poetry
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CONSENT by Jennifer Funk
As if you could dig it up like a carrot or shake it loose from the branches. As if you could thwack it in half like a coconut, could drink the milk sloshing inside and be revived, as if you could command it onto your tongue, as if it had a taste, as if…
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TRANS IS AGAINST NOSTALGIA by Taylor Johnson
Everyday I build the little boat, my body boat, hold for the unique one, the formless soul, the blue fire that coaxes my being into being. Yes, there was music in the woods, and I was in love with the trees, and a beautiful man grew my heartbeat in his hands, and there was my…
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QUARTO: An Interview with Melissa Cundieff
Darling Nova, Melissa Cundieff’s full-length debut, won the 2017 Autumn House poetry prize. She earned her MFA in poetry from Vanderbilt University, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poem Hurt Music was published in Issue 10. FWR: Your poems seem to be interested in the limits and constraints of language,…