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image of a total solar eclipse

Threshold

By Scott Broker
Silhouette of a crowd of people wielding swords against a fiery background, as if to suggest war.

Once Upon a Time

By Natsume Sōseki, translated from Chinese by Ryan Choi
A fly sits on edge of a white flower's petal against a blurry green background.

Kingdom

By Brian Gyamfi

My Mother’s Stalker

By K-Ming Chang

Alix Anne Shaw

Alix Anne Shaw is the author of two poetry collections: Dido in Winter: Poems (Karen & Michael Braziller Books), named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal, and Undertow: Poems, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared in journals including Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, and New American Writing. Her most recent project is Rough Ground: A Translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus From Philosophy into Poetry. Also a visual artist, she holds an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.anneshaw.org
Poetry

I Go for a Walk in the Evening While the Body Stays at Home

By Alix Anne Shaw August 3, 2015

The body unbuckles the door latch / and stands behind the screen.

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