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I’m always up for a smoke, says my sister. …

Lo Naylor

What is the name for an antelope …

Mai Der Vang

WALT McDONALD …

Walter McDonald

After being humiliated one continues the manuscript of identity. …

Prageeta Sharma

Here its claws grasp nothing. …

William Pitt Root

The passions that we fought with and subdued …

Trumbull Stickney

every wall …

Gloria g. Murray

A pot poured out …

Samuel Menashe

The glossary

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.