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Apr 23

from The Palace, Kaveh Akbar

april is: a poem a day for national poetry month

from The PalaceKaveh AkbarI have a kitchen devicethat lets me spin lettuce.There is no elegant wayto say this—people with living hearts that could fit in my chestwant to melt the city where I was born.At his elementary school in an American suburb,a boy’s shirt says: “We...

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Apr 22

Solitude, Franny Choi

april is: a poem a day for national poetry month

SolitudeFranny ChoiI hope no one comes to my party, I said out loud, and meant it. In the email, I tried to sound too busy to carelike, I’m having too much sex to waste time on proper punctuation, pretending it’s not the other way around.Laura convinced me to jumpin the...

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