APR Volume 55, Issue 1 (PDF)

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January/February 2026

p. 4
from Night Owl
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

p. 6
Everybody Got Better: What Jack Gilbert Means to Me
David Kirby

p. 10
Sleep & Other Poems
Matthew Dickman

p. 12
Lake Limerick & Other Poems
Tomás Q. Morín

p. 15
I Appreciate Your Visibility & Other Poems
Monica Ferrell

p. 17
from The Poetry Dopebook: Dictums, Apothegms, and Bloody Saws
Peter Jay Shippy

p. 18
Barrel of Monkeys & Goose After Goose
Daisy Fried

p. 20
The Hyenas
V. Penelope Pelizzon

p. 22
The Art of the Possible: An Interview with Dana Gioia and his translator, Rosangela Batista
Millicent Borges Accardi

p. 26
At Wally’s Wine & Spirits, I Recall the Brothels of Pompeii
Anna Journey

p. 27
Sprouting a Horn
Kimberly Ann Southwick

p. 28
Abolition Medicine: Liberatory Poetics of the Crip, Black Botanical
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

p. 30
“I Learned to Love Me Later On”: A Conversation with Therí Alyce Pickens
Philip Metres

p. 34
Grief Is Like Grief
Hadara Bar-Nadav

p. 34
Let Us First Bend Space and Time & So Warm for November, in Bed with the Windows Open
Amorak Huey

p. 36
Chief Agreements & Other Poems
Cynthia Arrieu-King

p. 38
My Perfect Scholar’s Rock
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

p. 39
Wait & Still Working
Elaine Sexton

p. 40
Someone said, jasmine
Ellen June Wright