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La Otra Historia

By María Álvarez

If I Say My Body Is Asian Does This Poem Disappear

By Eugenia Leigh

Secret Solitary

By Thomas Bartlett Whitaker

Ketamine

By Bria Adimora Godley

Rebecca Gayle Howell

Rebecca Gayle Howell is the author of Render / An Apocalypse, selected by Nick Flynn for the 2012 Cleveland State University First Book Prize. She is also the translator of Amal al-Jubouri’s Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation (Alice James Books, 2011). “You Can’t Tell the Truth” is excerpted from her current manuscript, a purgatory set in West Texas.
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You Can’t Tell the Truth

By Rebecca Gayle Howell March 17, 2014

We talk about leaving here as if / it’s walking out a door.

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