~ highlights and recommendations from recent issues of literary journals ~
by Mark Danowsky, Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal
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Waxwing (Fall 2018)
Kelli Russell Agodon – String Theory Relationships
http://waxwingmag.org/items/issue16/1_Agodon-String-Theory-Relationships.php
[excerpt]
The essential idea is this — all objects are composed of vibrating anxieties
— everyone wants a window or aisle seat and no one wants to sit
in the middle. Call it deniability.
Kelli Russell Agodon – American Snapshot
http://waxwingmag.org/items/issue16/2_Agodon-American-Snapshot.php
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The Baltimore Review (Fall 2018)
Emily Paige Wilson – What I’ll Tell My Great-Great-Granddaughters
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Copper Nickel (Fall 2018, Issue 27)
Tony Hoagland – Achilles
http://copper-nickel.org/achilles/
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diode (vol. 11, no. 3)
J.P. Dancing Bear – The Oracle of Liar, Liar
http://diodepoetry.com/dancing-bear_jp_2/
[excerpt]
I know you'll do your best
to misquote everything I've said, even
if I said it, it'll be out of context.
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Boulevard (no. 100)
https://boulevardmagazine.org/
Cynthia X. Hua – Copy Machine
Suddenly you can see the man inside
for example how a three-minute song
can blur together the past ten years
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The Georgia Review (Summer 2018)
https://thegeorgiareview.com/product/summer-2018/
Stephen Dunn – A Postmortem Guide
(reprint from The Georgia Review, 1999)
The truth is
I learned to live without hope
as well as I could, almost happily,
in the despoiled and radiant now.
Stephen Dunn – A Postmortem Guide (2)
(18 years later)
Tell them it was true, I did think I’d die at sixty,
in my prime, in love with mystery and its words,
someone who tried to listen to his inner voice.
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The Iowa Review (Fall 2018 – 48/2)
https://iowareview.org/issue/volume-48-issue-2-%E2%80%94-fall-2018
Shane McCrae – The Brown Horse Ariel
Shane McCrae – The President Visits the Storm
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Sixth Finch (Summer 2018)
Hanif Abdurraqib – How Can Black People Write About Flowers At A Time Like This
http://sixthfinch.com/abdurraqib1.html
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Up The Staircase Quarterly (Issue #43)
Kai River Blevins – All Animals are Trans
https://www.upthestaircase.org/kai-river-blevins.html
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Powder Keg Magazine (Issue 12)
Hillary Kobernick – In the End
https://www.powderkegmagazine.com/hillary-kobernick
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BOAAT Journal (November 2018 issue)
Derrick Austin – The Witching Hour
http://www.boaatpress.com/boaat/#october-november-2018-issue-boaat
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Nightjar Review (Issue 3)
Mary Kovaleski Byrnes – January
http://nightjarreview.com/issue3-594622-367940-511922-599318.html
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Coal Hill Review (Issue 20, Fall 2018)
Gerry LaFemina – Wingtips
https://coalhillreview.com/wingtips/
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Interim (Vol. 35, Issue 4)
Timothy Liu – No Man’s Land
https://www.interimpoetics.org/35-4/timothy-liu
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32 Poems (Summer 2018)
Mark Wagenaar – The Book of Vigils
http://32poems.com/poem/mark-wagenaar/
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Southern Poetry Review (Issue 72, 55:1)
Leatha Kendrick – Boundary Dispute
Kendrick’s short poem opens:
They say the line is somewhere else, / further in.
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Shot Glass Journal (Issue #23, September 2017)
Le Hinton – Uses of Cotton (Grief)
http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/le_hinton1.html
Anton Yakovlev – Adorable
http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/anton_yakovlev1.html
Bob Lucky – The After-church Crowd Swarms the Free Cheese Samples
http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/issue23/bob_lucky1.html
Linda Conroy – Good Times
http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/linda_conroy1.html