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February 2020

Nick Adam

The oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.

Jeffrey Yang
Maggie Smith
Angela Jackson
Talin Tahajian
John Lee Clark

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From this Issue

- poem
  
  Fingers on a Gay Man
  
  By Zach Linge
  
  A pair of adolescent boys grabs a rabbit to shear off its ears. It doesn’t matter why, whether they’re sad or from the city. What matters is what they do with their hands: hold the blade, hang the rabbit by...
  
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- poem
  
  Bruh
  
  By Jesus Govea
  
  you can take my breath
  but the bruh stays
  lips slapping spice
  of unknown bulk
  face curry-blushed
  from its blandness
  my dad’s face caved
  sour into his nose
  when he heard it
  the bruh cliff-hanging
  on his beard
  I think he tries to pray the white out of me
  Town and Country...
  
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- poem
  
  One Day I Suddenly Notice ...¹
  
  By Daisy Fried
  
  You made your students write stories about happiness and they were, you said, the worst stories of the year. Remember the pregnant woman? in a Fontainebleau café, I meant to reset it in America when I wrote the poem, she...
  
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Poems

Zach Linge
- Fingers on a Gay Man
- For Baron B.
Jesus Govea
- Bruh
Daisy Fried
- One Day I Suddenly Notice ...¹
Terese Svoboda
- Noah Hoarse
James McCorkle
- Franklin's Bees
Zeina Hashem Beck
- Poem Beginning & Ending with My Birth
Alison C. Rollins
- At Least a Dozen Bluets
- Parable of the Goldfinch
Maggie Smith
- How Dark the Beginning
- Threshold
Jessica Greenbaum
- Charlene,
Mia You
- Gangnam Beauty
John Lee Clark
- The Manual
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
- Singing
Caoilinn Hughes
- Who Gets the Silverware?
Beth Bachmann
- Fragments of Bone and Ice
- International Rose Test Garden
Mary B. Moore
- California Ode
Virginia Keane
- I Moved to the Far Side of the Bar
- Fish and Friend
Lani O'Hanlon
- This Other Thing
Gabrielle Bates
- The Mentor
francine j. harris
- Curtains
Partridge Boswell
- Upon Hearing Amy Winehouse at St. James’ Church in Dingle
Nome Emeka Patrick
- Sylvia Plath as an Old Story Title for Learning to Fight Depression Where the Semiotics Simply Suggest That a Garden Illustrates Peace as a Foreshadow Rather Than as a Vivid Depiction of an Ancestral Society of Sad Mothers & Helpless Fathers
Angela Jackson
- More Than Meat and Raiment
Talin Tahajian
- Bad classics
Jack Underwood
Rodney Jones
- Trying to Believe / We Are Endangered
Dujie Tahat
- salat to be read from right to left
Liz Berry
- The Burning
David Felix
- Gastropoda
- Biosfera

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Jeffrey Yang
- Mary Oppen, Meaning a Life

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