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December 2016

Janie Stamm, "Snake Stack No. 2," 2016

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

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  • Marcus Wicker
  • Devin Johnston
  • Charles North
  • sam sax
  • Joseph Legaspi
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From this Issue
    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Conjecture on the Stained Glass Image of White Christ at Ebenezer Baptist Church

      By Marcus Wicker
      If in his image made am I, then make me a miracle.
      Make my shrine a copper faucet leaking everlasting Evian to the masses.
      Make this empty water glass a goblet of long-legged French wine.
      Make mine a Prince-purple body bag designed by...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Poem for the New Year

      By Devin Johnston
      I’ve tracked myself from day to day
      how many steps through a field of snow
      how many hours have I slept
      what have I eaten
      what did I burn
      calories or cigarettes
      what birds have poured
      through Bellefontaine
      where mausoleums bear the names
      of Busch and Brown
      Lemp and Spink
      on...

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    • poem

      Appeared in Poetry Magazine Everything: Coda

      By Charles North
      Even city planning.

      Yesterday, for example,
      with its unexpected view of posterity
      draped loosely between high-rises
       — unlike the composed street
      raised to stoop level like a stroller. No moon
      but clearly under some pressure to form one in quick stages,
      while being careful to avoid what intervenes
      with...

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