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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

Virgil Suárez

strong>Virgil Suárez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962. Since 1974, he has lived in the United States. He is the author of over twenty books of prose and poetry, most recently Infinite Refuge, Palm Crows, Banyan, and Guide to the Blue Tongue. In winter 2005, the University of Pittsburgh Press will publish 90 Miles: Selected and New Poems. He is the co-editor of four anthologies published by the University of Iowa Press: American Diaspora, Like Thunder, Vespers, and Red, White, and Blue. His poetry has been chosen for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2004. He is currently writing a new novel and restoring a 1955 Chevrolet.
Poetry

World Weather Forecast

By Virgil Suárez October 27, 2004

He smells me, / and I in turn smell a faint scent of tumeric, // or bijol, the colorant my mother used / in her paellas, or arroz con pollo dishes.

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