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      By Michael Dowdy
      on Sukun: New and Selected Poems by Kazim Ali
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      on The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature by Charlie Hailey
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      By Jimmy Carter
      The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...
      Poetry
      The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...
      By David Woo
      First Aid
      Fiction
      First Aid
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      Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change
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      By Craig Santos Perez
      The Lonely Ruralist
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      By Janisse Ray
      Influenza 1918
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      Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...
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      By Hiromi Itō
      Jerry’s Dirt
      
      [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...
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      [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...
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      This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)
      This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)
      By Guncotton
      Microchimerism
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      By Charles Altieri
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      By Michael Dowdy
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Summer 2024

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

The Space Between Things

Architecture and Song

Just Is

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

on Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

on Fatal Attraction, created by Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin J. Hynes

on Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

Wildness in Contemporary Poetry (vs. Poetry about Wildness) (on Jeanne Heuving’s Mood Indigo and...

Making Scenes: Three Writers on Puerto Rican Syndrome (on Justin Torres’s Blackouts; Urayoán Noel’s...

on Sukun: New and Selected Poems by Kazim Ali

on The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature by Charlie Hailey

on Her Read: A Graphic Poem by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Summer 2024

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

The Space Between Things

Architecture and Song

Just Is

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

on Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

on Fatal Attraction, created by Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin J. Hynes

on Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

Wildness in Contemporary Poetry (vs. Poetry about Wildness) (on Jeanne Heuving’s Mood Indigo and...

Making Scenes: Three Writers on Puerto Rican Syndrome (on Justin Torres’s Blackouts; Urayoán Noel’s...

on Sukun: New and Selected Poems by Kazim Ali

on The Porch: Meditations on the Edge of Nature by Charlie Hailey

on Her Read: A Graphic Poem by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Spring 1981

The Invention of the Real

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...