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No one really knows how the scrolls of the Library of Alexandria were stored and filed, but this poem mentions one possibility. The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam died in the Gulag in 1938.

“The Library of Alexandria” by David Wojahn

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This poem is inspired by a poem by Borges that I've always loved. His poem is a sonnet; mine is a little longer.

“To a Minor Poet in the Greek Anthology” by David Wojahn

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“The Sketchbook (IV)” is the final section of a four part poem reflecting the artistic and personal three-part braid of its protagonists. “The Sketchbook (II)” appeared in a previous issue of The Southern Review.

"The Sketchbook (IV)" by David St. John

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A small tragedy in the natural world leads to surprising considerations in Chera Hammons’s “When the Cottontail Doesn’t Return.”

“When the Cottontail Doesn’t Return” by Chera Hammons

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Winter in the city is frozen, resilient, and full of joy (and people) in John W. Evans’s poem, “Chicago."

“Chicago” by John W. Evans

Comedian Alice Pearce is diagnosed with terminal cancer and keeps acting in Abbie Kiefer's "On Bewitched, They Recast Gladys Kravitz."

“On Bewitched, They Recast Gladys Kravitz” by Abbie Kiefer

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God is far from infallible, kind, and unequivocally holy in Nazifa Islam’s Sylvia Plath found poem “The Wind Whipped Tears into My Eyes.”

“The Wind Whipped Tears into My Eyes” by Nazifa Islam

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In a dream, the writer's sick mother in “All the Wrong Things”, seems to be doing all the things she would never do.

“All the Wrong Things” by Okwudili Nebeolisa

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The young man in Okwudili Nebeolisa's “Birthday” is already contemplating how gravely he'll miss his friend when his friend has travelled overseas.

“Birthday” by Okwudili Nebeolisa

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In Okwudili Nebeolisa's “Memo”, a young man living in the West writes to himself a reminder to call his sick mother living in Nigeria.

“Memo” by Okwudili Nebeolisa

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Did I really look in closets for the back end of a mounted buck? Yes. Am I still teased about it? Also yes.

“And in This Way the World Passed Me By” by Alison Pelegrin

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I'm always looking for an excuse to offer a litany of things that get on my nerves and to use Molon Labe in a poem, so voila.

“Zero Bothers Given” by Alison Pelegrin

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When the electricity fails, the world transforms in Catherine Pierce’s “Abecedarian for the Power Outage.

“Abecedarian for the Power Outage” by Catherine Pierce

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A blazing new poem tears through decades of inherited silences to understand what unmade a father's embrace in Cindy Tran's "Blank Verse."

“Blank Verse” by Cindy Tran

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