APR Volume 55, Issue 3 (PDF)

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May/June 2026

p. 4
For the Goddess
Tracy K. Smith

p. 6
Harbors & Other Poems
Benjamin Gucciardi

p. 8
“In the night with the fights” — on Juliana Spahr’s Ars Poeticas
Jeff Alessandrelli

p. 10
Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter: Spurious Correlation & Other Poems
Tina Cane

p. 13
Poem with Face Blindness & In Case You Were Wondering if This Is Hell
William Stobb

p. 14
The Living & The World
Maya C. Popa

p. 16
Doubletake & Other Poems
Shara Lessley

p. 19
Columbia Heights Station
Malik Thompson

p. 20
Towards a Topographical Writing: On I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always by Douglas Kearney
Mike Corrao

p. 22
The Path
Matthew Yeager

p. 24
Money is a Ponzi Scheme
Rae Armantrout

p. 25
Ourselves Dispersed: On Jorie Graham’s Killing Spree
Edward Sambrano III

p. 24
off dating
Gordon Mitchell Smith

p. 28
Waves
Thomas Heise

p. 29
Francis Bacon
Jacqueline Berger

p. 29
John 3
Grady Chambers

p. 30
Physics of Wonder: A Conversation with Anna Journey
Devon Walker-Figueroa

p. 33
Empire & I Hope for Everything
Paul Guest

p. 34
Into the Hush: A Review
Margaret Lee

p. 36
Sonnet for the Unforgotten & Other Poems
Jill Bialosky

p. 37
Ode to Mary, Wild Among Grasses & Landscape, Late Thirties
Mónica Gomery

p. 38
Pantoum for Lolo Ahas
Asa Drake

p. 38
My Therapist Dressed as a Minion
T Bambrick

p. 40
The Current Dilemma
Kim Addonizio