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Jennie Malboeuf reads How to Drive in Snow

Jennie Malboeuf is a native of Kentucky. Her work is forthcoming in Poet Lore, the Potomac Review, The Cortland Review, and Unsplendid, is currently featured on The Pinch, and has been published in the Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review,...

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Jennie Malboeuf reads New Town

Jennie Malboeuf is a native of Kentucky. Her work is forthcoming in Poet Lore, the Potomac Review, The Cortland Review, and Unsplendid, is currently featured on The Pinch, and has been published in the Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review,...

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Arkava Das reads evening ballasted with sunset

Arkava Das lives in Delhi with his wife, Nidhi, and his father. Most of his work owes something to bilingualism — a condition that frequently involves balancing two possible worlds — a Will Alexander with a Joy Goswami, a Vasubandhu with a Guattari. He has some work...

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Amy Wright reads Acres Green©

Amy Wright is the Nonfiction Editor of Zone 3 Press and Zone 3 journal and the author of four poetry chapbooks. She received a Peter Taylor fellowship for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a...

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Colin Dodds reads four Spill-O Poems

Colin Dodds grew up in Massachusetts and completed his education in New York City. His poetry has appeared in more than a hundred and seventy publications and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is also the author of several novels, including WINDFALL and...

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Phyllis Brotherton reads Ice Storm, 2001

Phyllis Brotherton has a long career accounting for things. A late blooming writer, she received her MA in Creative Nonfiction in 2000 from Fresno State University and is currently a 3rd year MFA student there. Her work has appeared in the online journals Pithead...

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E. J. Evans reads A Story about Winter

E. J. Evans is a poet and essayist living in Cazenovia, New York.  His work has been published in Confrontation, Poetry East, The Midwest Quarterly, Hazmat Lit Review, and other literary journals.  He is currently at work on a book of autobiographical essays.

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Johnathan Harper reads Dinner for the Ducks

Johnathan Harper lives in Syracuse, New York, where he stays well away from duck ponds. He has been published in The Queer South: Essays and Poems, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Small Por[t]ions, etc. His chapbook Airplanes to Nowhere was a finalist in The Burnside Review's...

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Elizabeth Savage reads When in Autumn

Elizabeth Savage is author of Jane & Paige or Sister Goose (2011), Grammar (2012), and Idylliad (2015), all from Furniture Press Books. The current issue of Verse features her dossier-chapbook of twenty-six poems, titled Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers. Her...

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New poetry/videos by Karen An-hwei Lee

Karen An-hwei Lee (“Letter from Orange Country,” Issue 4) has a new chapbook, What the Sea Earns for a Living forthcoming from Quaci Press in December 2014. She has also produced a new poetry-video, which makes its debut here.   FIRE ON ANGEL ISLAND  for the...

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Aaron Shurin reads I Could See…

Aaron Shurin's most recent books are King of Shadows, a collection of personal essays, and Citizen, a collection of prose poems, both from City Lights Books. He's Professor Emeritus in the MFA Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. 

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New videos by Maureen Alsop

Maureen Alsop has completed a 4-part short-video series.The first, “Sweepspear,” features an excerpt from “Papery Bewick Swans/1956 Buick Super,” which was first published in Your Impossible Voice 3.The second, “Terrestris,” was posted at YIV in April.Parts 3 and 4...

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Monica Macansantos reads The Day I Was a Comfort Woman

Monica Macansantos earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Masters Review, Five Quarterly, TAYO Literary...

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Peter Burzynski reads Emeralds and Olives

Peter Burzynski is a first-year PhD student in Creative Writing-Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MFA in Poetry from The New School University, and an MA in Polish Literature from Columbia...

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Racquel Goodison reads Night Music

Racquel Goodison is an Assistant Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. She has been a resident at Yaddo and the Saltonstall Arts Colony, as well as a recipient of the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writer’s Grant and a scholarship to the...

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Michael du Plessis reads The Jeweler

Michael du Plessis is the author of the novel The Memoirs of JonBenet by Kathy Acker (Les Figues, 2012) and the chapbook Songs Dead Soldiers Sing (Chicago: Transparent Tiger Press, 2007).  His creative work has appeared in Narrativity, LitNet, and NatBrut, and with...

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Contributor News: Maureen Alsop

Maureen Alsop (“Papery Bewick Swans/1956 Buick Super,” Issue 3) has new poetry forthcoming in the journals DIAGRAM, burnt district, Superstition Review, Glint, Thirteen Mynah Birds, and in the anthology Songs for a Passbook Torch. She has also reviewed Brian Teare's...

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Geraldine Connolly reads Aileron

Geraldine Connolly is the author of three poetry collections, Food for the Winter, Province of Fire, and Hand of the Wind. Her poems and articles have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, and The Cortland Review.  She has been awarded two NEA...

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Siamak Vossoughi reads Worth It To Be Wrong

Siamak Vossoughi was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up in London, Orange County, and Seattle. He attended the University of Washington and then moved to San Francisco because it seemed like a good city to be a writer. He writes short stories and he has written one...

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Richard Chiem reads Trying to Lock All Windows and Doors

Richard Chiem is the author of You Private Person, a collection of short stories published by Scrambler Books. His work has appeared in Thought Catalog, City Arts Magazine, and Everyday Genius, among other places. In 2008, he survived a car accident. He is currently...

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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