In this Issue

Table of Contents

Out cutting grass

Maithili Aldabaran
pp. 7-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935262
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I Am Trying to Love the Whole World, and: The Specific Ocean

Jenny Browne
pp. 10-12
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Opening Up

Brett Beach
pp. 13-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935264
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Our Ever Afters

Nancy Welch
pp. 30-43
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935265
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Ariadne (Dionysus), and: Ariadne (Theseus), and: Dear Ariadne

Adrienne Su
pp. 44-48
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935266
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Headwaters

Heidi Lasher
pp. 49-55
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All-American Ghazal

Dujie Tahat
pp. 56-58
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Father’s Day

Brian Weinstein
pp. 59-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935269
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A Girl, A Car, A Boy

Nona Caspers
pp. 62-72
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935270
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Double Territory, and: Rest Stop

Lauren Camp
pp. 73-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935271
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1980, 1981, 1983

Jayson Iwen
pp. 75-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935272
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Girls Gone Wild

Noel Quiñones
pp. 78-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935273
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Three Very Long Days for Me and Mr. Reynolds Price

Ted Kooser
pp. 80-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935274
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The List of Very Bad Things

Scott John Murray
pp. 83-89
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Mill

John Kinsella
pp. 90-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935276
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A Shimmering Crucible: Twenty-first Century Black British Diaspora Poetries

Karen McCarthy Woolf
pp. 97-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935277
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City Poem Written on the 189 to Brent Cross, and: Dhaqan Celis/Return to Sender, and: It’s Not You, It’s the Housing Crisis

Momtaza Mehri
pp. 100-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935278
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from Prevalent as Petunias

Jay Bernard
pp. 103-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935279
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Pentecost

Elontra Hall
p. 109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935280
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Riddle Me This Batman, and: Fallen Angel, and: Bird of Paradise, and: The History of Black People

Nick Makoha
pp. 110-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935281
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from Tongues: A Memoir of Disfluency

Jason Allen-Paisant
pp. 113-114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935282
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Titanic

Dean Atta
pp. 115-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935283
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Living Room, and: The Fisheries at Matelot, and: In Istanbul

Anthony Joseph
pp. 118-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935284
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Witching Hour

Inua Ellams
p. 123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935285
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Opening the Way of Wu

Dzifa Benson
pp. 124-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935286
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Oklahoma City

Raymond Antrobus
p. 130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935287
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Into the Woods

Louisa Adjoa Parker
pp. 131-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935288
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All the Fire

Jacob Ross
pp. 134-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935289
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Memo

Yomi Ṣode
pp. 140-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935290
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Mauve Is a Song Worth Singing

Nii Ayikwei Parkes
pp. 142-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935291
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My Mother Raised a Normal Man

Oluwaseun Olayiwola
pp. 149-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935292
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Black Atlantis

Zakia Carpenter-Hall
pp. 152-153
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Di Man Grandaddy Tell Me Not to Marry, and: I Left My Church but I Do Not Believe God Hates Me

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
pp. 154-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935294
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Procession

Roger Robinson
pp. 157-165
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The Flood, and: Toothbrush

Adam Lowe
pp. 166-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935296
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from Pulse

Belinda Zhawi
pp. 168-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935297
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Party Nation, and: Boris Johnson came to the shoobs (uninvited)

Caleb Femi
pp. 170-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935298
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Keanu Reeves Attachment Style, and: Harpoon

Kandace Siobhan Walker
pp. 172-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935299
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Disappearing in Five Acts: Prologue

malakaï sargeant
pp. 174-175
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Ba no Kuuki wo Yomu

Samatar Elmi
pp. 176-177
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Cruelty, and: Saint Diuretic, and: Vernix

Warsan Shire
pp. 178-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935302
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An Alternative History of Stones—Take 1, and: Old Age, and: These Hands

Malika Booker
pp. 181-184
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Trace by Brenda Cárdenas (review)

Ae Hee Lee
pp. 185-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935304
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Unshuttered by Patricia Smith (review)

Lynn Deturk
pp. 187-189
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News of Previous Contributors

pp. 190-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935306
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Contributor Notes

pp. 194-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/psg.2023.a935307
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