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​Issue #52, 2022

  ​Edited by Ed Foster, Chris Sawyer-Lauçanno, Bronwyn Mills...
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Photo: Bronwyn Mills

MEMOIR

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Basil King,  "Agnes/Dylan/Gwen" 


ESSAYS

Murat Nemet-Nejat, "Dying of Cancer"

George Quasha, "Divine Revelation in the Literal Expression"
 

Jeffrey Kahrs, "A Brief History of Turkish Poetry Translations into English"

"Todd Swindell, "Standing In Your Own Light"
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JOHN ASH​

​JeffreyKhars, "Ashes to Ashes: A Memoir"

​Bronwyn Mills, "In Memoriam:  John Ash "


​Mel Kenne, "What Can I Do?"

Murat Nemet-Nejat, ​"A Few Thoughts on John Ash"
REVIEWS


John Hart, "Three Books by Patricia Nelson"

Kimo RedeR, "A Day Trip with a Geiger Counter: Andrew Levy’s Artifice in the Calm Damages and Its Authenticity of Crazed Doctorings"


Patrick Prichett, Within the Inscribed, by Michael Heller

Eight by Peter Valente: 
​books by Estelle Pavón,  Anna Blasiak, Estelle Hoy, 
Kythe Heller, Alberto Caeiro, Red Shuttleworth, Cookie Mueller, and Barbara Hemming.


J. Curley, "On Burt Kimmelman’s Visible at Dusk: Selected Essays"
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Peter Bushyeager, "Passionate Quest," a review of Peter Valente's 
Essays on the Peripheries.

Charles Borkhuis, "ZOOMING WITH SUSAN LEWIS", on ZOOM by Susan Lewis

Joel Lewis , THE SAUNA IS FULL OF MAIDS, poems by Cheryl Fish

Thomas Fink, on LOVE’S SHADOW  by Paul A. Bové 

John Bradley, on crops by Grzegorz Kwiakowski, tr. Peter Constantine

FICTION

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Carmen Firan, "A Lucky Guy"

Mark Jacobs, "
Hibernaculum"

Rob Couteau, Three stories from Intimate Souvenirs
POETRY:

Dennis Ryan:
Eleven Poems



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