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OMAR EL AKKAD Seven Swims
RAHUL BHATTACHARYA Miracle at Short Leg
KAIAMA L. GLOVER Love Poems for the Revolution
RENÉ DEPESTRE (TRANS. KAIAMA L. GLOVER) Three Poems
WAYDE COMPTON “I Am Pleased to Recommend Mr. and Mrs. Compton as Adopting Parents for a Mixed Negroid Male Child”: My Adoption and Its Narrations
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ROBERT BRINGHURST Life Poem
HANIF KUREISHI A Cricket Ball
ELEANOR WACHTEL An Interview with Percival Everett
LORNA GOODISON A Meditation on Friendships Past
CHRIS BAILEY A Hard Year for Birds
JESSE NATHAN What the Farmer Said
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