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    • Why Am I Sadder During the Summer, by Lex Chilson
    • Our Mother’s Lambs, by Marina Fec
    • how to be a human being, by arizona hurn
    • June 21: Poem for Kearney, by Tyler Michael Jacobs
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    • First Flight, by Hannah Baumgardt
    • If We Are But A Moment, by True Dabill
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    • ARKANSAS by John Brandon
    • THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang
    • THE BONE CLOCKS by David Mitchell
    • EVIDENCE OF V by Sheila O’Connor
    • THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS, Esmé Weijun Wang
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First Flight
by Hannah Baumgardt

  
If We Are But a Moment

by True Dabill

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