APR Volume 53, Issue 1 (PDF)

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January / February 2024

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If They Wanted To & Other Poems
Nikki Wallschlaeger

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I feel a tenant in the barely daylight & Other Poems
Gillian Conoley

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Triple Sonnet for Taking the Money and Taking That Exit & Other Poems
Dorothy Chan

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Glassware
Leslie Sainz

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Leslie Sainz’s Have You Been Long Enough at Table and Craft in the Anthropocene Era
Asa Drake

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Too Late to Stop Now & Other Poems
Elizabeth A.I. Powell

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Commute & Abecedarian for the Care Shift I Failed to Show Up For
Rob Colgate

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What Form Can Hold: The Pantoum as Vessel of/through Trauma
Philip Metres

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Oh honey, oh baby & Other Poems
Ellen Bass

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About Laughter and the Memory of Love and Solitude & Other Poems
Matthew Lippman

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Late Winter, After the Fires & Other Poems
Emily Wallis Hughes

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Fire in the Black Box
Marianne Boruch

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The Car & Other Poems
Carrie Fountain

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A Memory & State of Play
Daniel Halpern

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Trash [A question you consider]
Nicole Cooley

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need & Other Poems
Stella Wong

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Morituri & Other Poems
Vernita Hall

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Oh, Corona: A Review of Ben Lerner’s The Lights
Erick Verran
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Nature Poem about Flowers & Lava Lamp
Matthew Rohrer

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Love Story & Happy Hour
James Richardson

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A Rare Joy: A Review of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems
Jefferson Navicky
APR Books

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On Bob Hicok’s Water Look Away
José A. Alcántara
APR Books

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Manifesto
January Gill O’Neil