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Protected: Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

Protected: There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: This is War

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Elizabeth Metzger

Elizabeth Metzger is the author of The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook Bed, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her second full-length collection, Lying In, will be published by Milkweed Editions in the spring of 2023. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Find her on Instagram @nobodytoo2.
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AudioPoetry

Wrong Distance

By Elizabeth Metzger November 16, 2022
Don’t you miss me as if I were dead? // That’s how you’d like to be loved.
Essay

Morbidity & the Miniature

By Elizabeth Metzger May 11, 2018
I don’t want my child to be my miniature—I like discovering each day how much of a stranger he is.
Poetry

Courtyard of the Most Embarrassing God

By Elizabeth Metzger May 15, 2014

The pelt, dead and bristling, / might guard me from death, / a city wet with the rain of better places.

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