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            By Garrett Hongo
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            Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

            Special Feature

            College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

            Essays

            The Lonely Ruralist

            By Janisse Ray
            Essays

            Influenza 1918

            By Jane Brox
            Poetry

            Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

            By A. E. Stallings
            Special Feature

            Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

            By Jacob Baynham
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          • Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

            By Yaron Michael Hakim

            Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

            By Meghann Riepenhoff

            Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

            By C. J. Bartunek

            Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

            By Doron Langberg

            “Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

            By Eddie Arroyo

            A Lower Deep

            By Michi Meko
            View All Art
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          • on The Journey by Miguel Collazo, translated by David Frye, with an introduction by...

            By Diego Báez

            on The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

            By Brianna Beehler

            Inquiry and Imperative (on Johanna Skibsrud’s The Poetic Imperative: A Speculative Aesthetics and Alice...

            By Julia Bloch

            Harder and Better: The New Masculinity of Fatherhood Poetry (on Douglas Kearney’s Patter; Oliver...

            By Emily Pérez

            A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen

            By Julie Iromuanya

            “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?”

            By Virginia Jackson

            on Suitor by Joshua Rivkin

            By Hannah Baker Saltmarsh

            on Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by...

            By Bradley Bazzle
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Watched and Listened: Stories about the Boys

By Jim Heynen
From the Summer 2001 Issue

Jim Heynen’s short-short stories have appeared frequently in The Georgia Review. A new collection of his short-shorts, Ordinary Sins: After Theophrastus, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2014. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

← Natural Selection (on The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 by Dave Smith; Knowing: New and Selected Poems by Jonathan Holden; The Blessing: New and Selected Poems by Richard Jones; Selected Poems of Anne Sexton by Anne Sexton, edited and with an introduction by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume George; Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems by Susan Ludvigson; and The Selected Levis by Larry Levis, selected and with an afterword by David St. John) → Some Cloths

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