I emptied his bookshelves
into cardboard liquor boxes
drove them to the library
for their end of summer sale
box after box
carried from car
to a giant trailer
in the back lot
stack upon stack
imagining buyers
fingering the spines
running a nail
along a line of text
lips moving in a whisper
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Issue 60
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Editor's Note
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Poetry
- Dara Barnat
- Jason Barry
- Robin Chapman
- Geraldine Connolly
- Matt Daly
- Elizabeth Burke
- Liz Dolan
- Thomas Dooley
- Lisa Hiton
- John McKernan
- Dave Nielsen
- Sheila Joy Packa
- Jack Powers
- Brook J. Sadler
- Amy Small-McKinney
- Danez Smith
- Karen Steinmetz
- John Tangney
- Ryan Teitman
- Davide Trame
- G.C. Waldrep
- Sarah Wangler
- Charles Harper Webb
- Mary-Sherman Willis
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Fiction
Issue > Poetry
Jack Powers
Jack Powers teaches English and special education at Joel Barlow High School and lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, with his wife and three children. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Inkwell, Atlanta Review, The Ledge, and Naugatuck Review, among other magazines.Poetry
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