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Priestess IV
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Akua Lezli Hope
19 Jan 2026
the black fairy in the village sold her a dime for a nickel
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Chang’e in Exile
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Allison Zhang
19 Jan 2026
The moon was not her destination. It was a sentence.
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Questions I Could Not Ask the Giant in Her Presence
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R. C. Sherbrooke
12 Jan 2026
Do you swallow big blue whale eyes straight out of the jar?
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Creature With the Ticking Heart
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Nico Martinez Nocito
12 Jan 2026
When you falter, recall that age is not your master
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The History of the Playa Michigan Lake Mining Company
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Steve Wheat
5 Jan 2026
the porcelain white sparkles of lithium mounds like hives of glass ants
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Blurbs for forthcoming genre poetry books
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Troy Harkin
5 Jan 2026
This is poetry that matters. Period. Exclamation mark.
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The World To Come
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Jennifer Hudak
22 Dec 2025
I did not ask for resurrection; I have no use for olam ha-bah.
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O ASHY WINGS STILL FLUTTERING
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Joemario Umana
22 Dec 2025
what do you seek / in the ruin of light, what prayer stirs from the dust / of yourself?
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The ghosts of me are in your machine
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R.B. Lemberg
15 Dec 2025
My obsidian shadows knifed the moon, drank moonblood until my wandering mouth filled to bursting
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Skull-God — A Broadcast from the Trenches
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Yucheng Tao
15 Dec 2025
In this endless dark winter / he comes as furious as / a lion’s claw
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