APR Volume 54, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2025

p. 4
It Was Not Natural & Other Poems
Cameron Awkward-Rich

p. 6
Life Lessons & Other Poems
Nick Lantz

p. 7
A Formal Feeling
Yanyi

p. 13
Landlines
Jen DeGregorio

p. 14
How American & Other Poems
Luther Hughes

p. 16
I laughed so hard after performance review
Sophia Feng

p. 17
Blood at the side of the road
Jacqueline Goldfinger

p. 18
Stanley Kunitz and the Wilderness of Age
David Grubin

p. 22
Radio Silence & Other Poems
Erika Meitner

p. 24
Two Lights
Ben Pease

p. 25
The Pillow Book: The Moon and Its Hidden Face
Miho Nonaka

p. 30
Self-Portrait as a Car That Won’t Start in a Slasher & Final Boy Ponders the Lack of Grief in Slashers
Stephen S. Mills

p. 31
A Fibonacci Sequence
Niamh O’Connell

p. 34
Tron Becomes the Sun & Other Poems
Kb Brookins

p. 35
Tess Gallagher: Poet of Eternity
Harold Schweizer

p. 39
I don’t want to answer the phone & Thinking about how I might appear
Michelle Taransky

p. 40
Five Odes
Barbara Hamby

p. 42
Past Perfect
Joy Ladin

p. 43
Kickball Cowboy & Self-Portrait as Peach Orchard
Kerry James Evans

p. 44
Addressee Rhapsody
Elizabeth Robinson