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Liam Curley

February 3, 2016

We’re horseshoeing towards the Oregon coast, me with May, us keeping each other awake, talk departing our heads. We’re in a car, slouching, feeling clayed. We pass lumber yards, the sweat rings on ball caps of the Pacific Northwest, the tree trunks carried as cargo like battering rams in cribs, all labor. […]

PEN Literary Awards Shortlists announced!

February 2, 2016

  PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Shortlist: In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar The Turner House by Angela Flournoy Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya The Symathizer: A Novel by Viet […]

Michelle Jia

January 27, 2016

Or was I the wrangled crag,
obsidi-flecked in my own volcano choke
as the hot pink thread whispered round my jags
and a young smudge yanked— […]

David Levine

January 27, 2016

I am a statue built too close to a moving bus. Fluorescent
lights blur the bedroom. Here, our wings beat time with the
tune on the radio. […]

Gala Mukomolova

January 27, 2016

When the dog, which is not your dog, runs out of the house, go after her.
When your yearlong lover tells you a year doesn’t mean that much to her, […]

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