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Bad Survivalist Poetry: “The Dark Knight Contemplates the Metaphysics of Pleasure” by Raza Ijaz
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The Future: Excerpts from The Mergered by Matthew DeMarco
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“A Day at the Beach,” a poem for Side A by Nicole Callihan
A Day at the Beach The nurse says I’ll likely feel okay, a little tired, very warm. Like you’ve spent…
New Poetry for Side A: “into the looking glass” by Sarah Aziz
into the looking glass and stumbling into you, father-land. your breath lances through me like a friday afternoon scolding.she traces…
Review: Alexandra Grabbe on Rita Zoey Chin’s The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern
Rita Zoey Chin’s The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern is an enchanting coming of age story that sends us on…
Poetry: “on fictional suburbs” by Evelyn Bauer
on fictional suburbs Some beast prowls in this place, lurking around stacks of unused newspaper & hiding behind the corners,…
Dangerous Blues, kind of a ghost story by Stephen Policoff, reviewed by Laurie Loewenstein
In the months after my mother died, my father confided to me that he regularly talked to her. To her,…
We Are Mermaids, poems by Stephanie Burt, reviewed by Robin Arble
There’s a moment in Stephanie Burt’s newest collection I’ve read so many times I memorized it by accident. In “Love…
Heavy Feather Review 