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POETRY / Winter 2024

The Lake

By D. S. Waldman
Duke Ellington Cover
FICTION / Winter 2024

Duke Ellington on Mars

By Michael D. Kennedy
Illustration by Wayne Brezinka
ESSAYS / Fall 2024

A Tempo

By Carlo Rotella ,  Illustration by Wayne Brezinka
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POETRY / Fiction 2024

Belfast Soprano

By Philip Metres
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POETRY / Spring 2008

Motel Makeshift Lullaby

By Matt Donovan
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FICTION / Winter 2012

The Composer

By Daniel Alarcón
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AUDIO

A Harry Belafonte Playlist

Photography by Jeff Sharlet
ESSAYS / Spring 2013

Sound + Vision

By Adam Baer
CRITICISM / Spring 2014

Sister Cities: Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans and Stax Records’ Memphis

By Preston Lauterbach
CRITICISM

A Whole Lotta Soul

By Robert Birnbaum
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