APR Volume 51, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2022

p. 4
The Essay on Faith
Gregory Pardlo

p. 6
Five poems from The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
Franny Choi

p. 8
Delilah & Other Poems
Philip Metres

p. 10
Giant Visits the Nursing Home & Other Poems
Matthew Kelsey

p. 11
Poetics of Uncertainty: A Conversation
Niina Pollari and Kate Durbin

p. 13
Into the Mistake & Other Poems
Elizabeth A.I. Powell

p. 14
Remembering Donald Justice & Blind, I Bought a Horse
Stephen Kuusisto

p. 15
from Estrangement
Katie Ford

p. 18
Five Plague Octets
Susan Stewart

p. 19
Another World Is Not Only Possible, She Is on Her Way and on a Quiet Day I Can Hear Her Breathing
Emily Carr

p. 27
Schoolyard Evangel & Schoolyard Blessing
Gabriel Fried

p. 28
Why Colonizers Love the Law of Conservation of Matter
Brandi George

p. 29
Years and Years
David Kirby

p. 30
Blaze & Other Poems
Christian Gullette

p. 32
What Living in a House Is Like
Meeree Orlandini

p. 33
Plastic Bag
Joshua Weiner

p. 34
Bitter Sea & When Told to Imagine My Heart as a Vast Field, I Think of the Word “Whistle”
Maryam Ghafoor

p. 35
I Promise Not to Behave: On the Poetry of Lydia Tomkiw
Dan Shepelavy

p. 40
True Romance at the World’s Fair & Other Poems
Lydia Tomkiw

p. 42
Love Poem & Dispute
Ahmad Almallah

p. 44
You Are a Guest of Nature: Behave
Caroline Crumpacker