APR Volume 54, Issue 2 (PDF)

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March/April 2025

p. 4
Paris & Other Poems
Alex Dimitrov

p. 6
from Works & Days
Gina Myers

p. 8
Grief Sonnets
Nicholas Wong

p. 10
It Might as Well Be Burning
Polly Adams

p. 11
A day, a thousand days, and a hundred years & Astronaut
Mark Irwin

p. 12
The Performance is a Ceremony: On LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs’ Village
Krystal Languell

p. 14
from Important Groups
Hilary Plum

p. 17
Bridges
Nome Emeka Patrick

p. 18
from Looking for my value: Prologue to a blade
Alabaster Deplume

p. 20
To Love an Alcoholic
Jenny Molberg

p. 20
Self-Talk with Dandelions
Casey Thayer

p. 21
The Hotel Goldfish & Subway Evening
Molly Peacock

p. 22
On Generosity & Other Poems
James Mccorkle

p. 24
Hermit Crab Poems: Finding, Filling, and Fracturing Form
Philip Metres

p. 30
angler ode for uncle adi
Jan Wagner
Translated from the German by David Keplinger

p. 32
The Lighthouse & Other Poems
Rosa Jamali
Translated from the Persian by Kaveh Bassiri

p. 34
“…always on the edge of the thing he belongs to.” Pessoa
Gabrielle Myers

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Buffalo
Kai Carlson-Wee