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By Rio CortezJust as close to living as you are to disappearing knowing
my limits you locate the tender spots without.
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
By Rio CortezJust as close to living as you are to disappearing knowing
my limits you locate the tender spots without.
By Tala Khanmalekunbound pages carry my inheritance from Baba
a strategy to get around the system, like Baba
By Liv MammoneThe train is a creature that moves like water.
It has no eyes, only a sharp
mouth that closes on those too slow.
By David James "DJ" SavareseThe ear that hears the cardinal
hears in red;
the eye that spots the salmon
By Leigh SugarI knew it was something bodies could do, disobey –
a girl a grade above had died that fall
of the cancer I was being tested for in winter,
By Emily K. MichaelThe speed reading class for seventh graders
slumped over tight columns of text spread flat
on tables in the library where in her half-glasses
By Naomi Ortizbase booms opposite my scooter
rattles
I am obstruction