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Four Poems by Alan Chazaro

Border Semantics
By Alan Chazaro

Human Tsunami is a phrase used by politicians to explain a wave of refugees
             fleeing one
country’s coast for another. It’s a sudden crash of corpses in San Francisco; a crest
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Your Invitation to the Wake: For Alexandra Petri, After Her Article, ‘Is Poetry Dead?’

By Tatyana Brown

The Tuesday afternoon after Obama was inaugurated for his second term (the same day The Washington Post published your thoughts on Richard Blanco and the state of certain fields of contemporary literature), I taught a poetry … Continue reading