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In the Land of Fiction and Fake News

By Elizabeth Mitchell

Lost for Words

By Stewart L. Sinclair

Poem About Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard

Poetry by Felicia Zamora

Back Draft: Lisa Dillman

By Ben Purkert and Lisa Dillman

Johanny Vázquez Paz

Johanny Vázquez Paz is the author of Sagrada familia (winner of the International Latino Book Award, 2015), Querido voyeur, and Streetwise Poems/Poemas callejeros. She won first prize in the poetry category at the Consenso Short Story and Poetry Contest of Northeastern Illinois University, and second prize in the short story category. She coedited the anthology Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corazón y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest and her work has been included in the anthologies City of the Big Shoulders, Ejército de rosas, En la 18 a la 1, and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, among others. She currently teaches at Harold Washington College in Chicago, Illinois. I Offer My Heart as a Target/Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana is her latest collection of poetry.
Poetry

My Turn

Poetry by Johanny Vázquez Paz, translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel August 28, 2019
I seal myself in a coffin and pretend to be dead. That way death is a game of hide-and-seek and not a witness to the terror.
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