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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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The Golden Years
… her father and my grandfather, on my mother’s side. I knew also that my grandmother was included in the “you don’t know … of a dog, I said to myself. So that’s what the old man has come to, eating off the table is he? “You might expect a kid … was never what you’d call a wallflower, but after my uncle died she began to run around with this fellow who was young …
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A Straight Stretch on the Far Side of Coolbrook
… tedium underlying life there in decades before he had yet come to be. Tucked in the book, a letter of late 1864 to a … was melting down, who simply forgot he’d borrowed it, then died. We have the words, the daybook bristles with that …
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The Storm That Won’t Quit
… of devastation. Within months came records, poems, novels, comics, essays, academic and political studies, films, TV shows, exposés, paintings, blogs. Now there … only what context immediately informs his scenes. He also resists the standard encomia to pat Big Easyisms— …
How Dead Is Poetry?
… Auden, and William Butler Yeats, no casual versifiers. Audiences crowd “poetry” readings in night clubs and community centers. When I asked a colleague who teaches … flooding in the context of history. Respected journals continue to pay tribute to poetry. The New Yorker, The …
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The Birthday Celebration
… never to return— never to return to Bellefleur Manor—was also the day of Germaine’s first birthday. But was there any … home; she had not even thought of them for months. Please come to help us celebrate the first birthday of our darling … brown markings, and watched over Germaine and Little Goldie as they rode squealing with delight around the weedy …
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We Don’t Deserve This
… me; they behold only themselves.  Never once have I been complimented on the way my glinting veneer catches the … goes now. And don’t expect me to take you back if someone points out during your dissertation defense that you were … I could become a group text and organize a picnic for you ladies, rather than keep vibrating my way through this …
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