APR Volume 54, Issue 5 (PDF)

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September/October 2025

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from Lent Cisterns
Gabrielle Calvocoressi

p. 7
Questions I Never Asked My Father
Askold Melnyczuk

p. 8
Dear Yusef
Kima Jones

p. 10
Five Dream Songs, with an introduction by Shane McCrae
John Berryman

p. 12
Clear Days & Other Poems
Larry Levis

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Three Meditations
Sherod Santos

p. 16
Blue Was My Color for the Feminine: An Interview with Didi Jackson
Elizabeth Jacobson

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Fence Work & Other Poems
Alicia Jo Rabins

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Mira in the Monsoon Season & Things Work Out for Mira
Mirabai
Translated by Chloe Martinez

p. 22
Late Apology & Other Poems
Robin Becker

p. 23
Symmetry (of pith)
John Kinsella

p. 25
White Masks & Other Poems
D. Nurkse

p. 26
The Truth & Aubade
Michael Dumanis

p. 28
Breathe
Henry Israeli

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Twenty Poems
The Matrix

p. 37
It is 1890 again & Other Poems
A.A. Agnon

p. 38
The Calling & Hurakan
Susan Mitchell

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Still Life with a Bottle of Moët at the Château de Fontainebleau
Rita Mookerjee

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Second Body
Catherine Pond