APR Volume 49, Issue 5 (PDF)

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September/October 2020

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Exploding Haiku & Other Poems
Keith S. Wilson

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Biopsy Pantoum & Memento Mori: Pistachios
Jennifer Franklin

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intertidal ordinary—
Pattie Mccarthy

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Catalog & Other Poems
Camille T. Dungy

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The Language in Question [defying gravity] & The Language in Question [When I called you]
Benjamin Garcia

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Anyone Will Tell You: The Truth, But Slant
APR Books
Virginia Konchan

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Night Sea & Other Poems
Cate Peebles

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“When You Swim, Make Your Whole Body Like a Lung,” Says My Wife Rose on Our Honeymoon & Other Poems
Nomi Stone

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Black Woman on a Plane, 21st Century & Other Poems
Nikki Wallschlaeger

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at some point my translations & Other Poems
Ralph Angel

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Plywood
Joseph Gunho Jang

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Walmart
Tao Tao

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Engagement, Again: American Poetry Then and Now
Jeffrey Gray

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Reader, I [remember the midnights] & Reader, I [write (perhaps . . . )]
Corey Van Landingham

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Gobble: a song of climate change & Genuflection: a song of climate change
Bob Hicok

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Luxury Tax & You & Your Destiny
Brittany Cavallaro

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In Life My Husband Helps Put a Woman Back Together Again & In Life
We Dance at a Gay Bar Named After a Dead First Lady
Stephen S. Mills

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Garland
Anisa George

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The Animal
Safia Elhillo

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Two Rolls & History Says (Hegemon Remix)
He Xiang

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Singularity & Winter Melon Soup
Vernita Hall

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“Where Poetry Comes From”: The Phenomenon of Oksana Zabuzhko
Askold Melnyczuk

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The Trees of Kraków & Breakfast
Alan Michael Parker

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Entreaty Now & Rewinding the Lesbian Sex Scene on a Flight from Denver
Alicia Mountain

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A Personal History of Breathing
Joy Priest