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POETRY // Mother of Exiles

6.3, PoetryHeather BlakesleeNovember 11, 2024Excerpt, Emma Lazarus

Poetry // BEWARE THE PREDATORY HAND

Poetry, 6.2Heather BlakesleeJuly 29, 2024Excerpt

POETRY // HIGHER POWERS

PoetryHeather BlakesleeJune 24, 2024Heather Shayne Blakeslee, 5.2, Excerpt

POETRY // FOR NAUGHTY CHILDREN EVERYWHERE

POETRY // FOR NAUGHTY CHILDREN EVERYWHERE

PoetryHeather BlakesleeMay 25, 2024Heather Shayne Blakeslee, 5.4, Excerpt

POETRY // IMITATION GAME

PoetryHeather BlakesleeJuly 24, 2023Heather Shayne Blakeslee, 5.1, Excerpt

POETRY // THE COLORLESS WHITE LIGHT OF INFINITE EXISTENCE

Art & Ideas, PoetryHeather BlakesleeJanuary 24, 20234.3, Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // RELATIONSHIP ENTROPY AND THE RIVER OF TIME

Art & Ideas, PoetryHeather BlakesleeOctober 20, 20224.2, Excerpt

POETRY // This Strange Order

by Joshua Mehigan • “Christag” illustration by Christopher Clark Spencer

Poetry Editor Joshua Mehigan explores two versions of nature, and our own nature, in poems by William Cowper and Mary Meriam.

3.1, PoetryHeather BlakesleeJuly 7, 2021Joshua Mehigan, William Cowper, Mary Meriam, Christopher Spencer, Excerpt

POETRY // The Happy Uncertain Worried Feeling

POETRY // The Happy Uncertain Worried Feeling

On Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh and Shane McCrae

by Joshua Mehigan

Poetry, 2.4Heather BlakesleeApril 1, 2021Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Accepting the Disaster

by Joshua Mehigan

2.3, PoetryHeather BlakesleeDecember 21, 2020Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Irresponsible and Damned: On poems by Lord Byron and Edgar Bowers

POETRY // Irresponsible and Damned: On poems by Lord Byron and Edgar Bowers

Poetry, 2.3Heather BlakesleeDecember 21, 2020Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Liberty in a Folding Chair: On ‘The New Colossus,’ by Emma Lazarus, and ‘After a Greek Proverb,’ by A.E. Stallings

Poetry, 2.2Heather BlakesleeSeptember 30, 2020Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt