APR Volume 55, Issue 4 (PDF)

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 July/August 2026

p. 4
from Staying Still
Hieu Minh Nguyen

p. 6
Magnified, Emboldened, & Wakeful: A Review of Tim Seibles’s With No Hat
Dante Di Stefano

p. 9
Only & Other Poems
Cole Swensen

p. 10
The Erotics of Grammar
Holly Coleman

p. 12
After the Totality
Boston Gordon

p. 13
Trials
Ethel Rackin

p. 14
Swannanoa: Swirl & Vortex
Reed Turchi

p. 16
Ghost Cowboy Starts a Podcast & Other Poems
C. Russell Price

p. 17
Earth-Bound Ghazals
Darius Atefat-Peckham

p. 18
Green Boots & Other Poems
Kazim Ali

p. 19
On the Phone with Father & Notes on Culture
Ugochukwu Damian Okpara

p. 20
Writing the Invisible: Ariana Reines’s Occult Poetics
David Ehmcke

p. 24
The Animal We Are
Beth Ward

p. 28
The Cocktail Party & Other Poems
Kevin Prufer

p. 31
Good Poem & Hibiscus Headwound
Nicky Beer

p. 32
The Poets at My Mother’s Deathbed
Matthew Dickman

p. 35
At Fifty & 14 Executive Orders
Wayne Miller

p. 36
Extinction Begins at Home: A Review of Anne Marie Macari’s Amerigun
Brittany Micka-Foos

p. 38
I Invite Certain Men to the Mountains & Perigee
Catherine Pierce

p. 40
Betsy Ross Sewing
Eleanor Wilner