APR Volume 52, Issue 2 (PDF)

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March / April 2023

p. 4
My Life (Second draft) and Bad Bear & Other Poems
Matthew Zapruder

p. 11
Nature Hates a Void & Scavengers
Carol Moldaw

p. 12
Abortion Poem & Orchid
Rebecca Lehmann

p. 14
Taj Mahal & Other Poems
Kwame Dawes

p. 16
Catastrophic Georgics & Other Poems
Sandra Simonds

p. 18
Song & Every Object Is Someone
Hadara Bar-Nadav

p. 19
Some Notes on Poetry: Divination, Reverie, Dream
Dana Levin

p. 22
Alive & All the tiny arrows
Mark Irwin

p. 23
from 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
Nam Le

p. 26
Elegy to the Sound of Your Name
Rachel Richardson

p. 26
The Regulars
Raye Hendrix

p. 27
The Seal of Approval & The Magician
Matthew Broaddus

p. 28
Elegy for Youth & Leaving
Ross White

p. 29
Taking the Long View: Five Poets Reflect on the Pressure to Be Productive
Mira Rosenthal, Kathy Fagan, Nomi Stone, Ed Bok Lee & Vandana Khanna

p. 31
Una Zarzuela
Spencer Reece

p. 32
notes from the understory & Nathalie Sarraute Tells Us
Rusty Morrison

p. 34
Filling Time
Olga Rukovets

p. 35
Beatitudes & La Cucaracha
Robert Pinsky

p. 36
Community Check-In & Leave your legacy at the door
Sam Herschel Wein

p. 37
Book One: Notes of Origin
Marianne Boruch

p. 40
Sacred Bath Bomb
Alina Pleskova