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Poetry

Six poems by Zheng Xiaoqiong/郑小琼, translated from Chinese by Zhou Xiaojing

Zhou Xiaojing

Three poems by Ken Pobo

Kenneth Pobo

Three poems by Clair Dunlap

Clair Dunlap

Two poems by Nate Maxson

Nate Maxson

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Book Reviews

Explorations in Form: Three Small Press Releases

Mike Corrao

Please Find Us by Wendy Oleson, reviewed by Sarah Wiggers

Sarah Wiggers

Re- by Andrea Blancas Beltran, reviewed by Carolyn Ogburn

Carolyn Ogburn

Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford, reviewed by Jared Benjamin

Jared Benjamin

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On Literature

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual

Linda E. Chown

Poetry as a Last Letter: Thomas James and his Influences Sylvia Plath and Georg Trakl

Lauren Davis

Aching for Meaning: The Work of Novelist Rosamond Lehmann

Kathryn Hummel

Visionary Markings: Em Dashes and Ellipses in Walt Whitman’s “Talbot Wilson” Notebook

Tom Holmes

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The Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg’s Iron Curtain Journals, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

The Ghost Sonata

Vincent Zangrillo

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

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Visual Art

Two collages and a poem by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Artworks by Doren Robbins

Doren Robbins

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Personal Essays

Something About Rage and the Light Dying

Jason Hardung

Conversations at Thresholds: a Contemplative Offering

Tara K. Shepersky

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