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Poetry Magazine
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featured poem
In a Hotel
In a hotel, even prayer feels adulterous,
the skyline smudged in light, a distraction
just before dusk. In the lobby . . .
the skyline smudged in light, a distraction
just before dusk. In the lobby . . .
featured prose
A Post-Racial Anthology?
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, ed. by Charles Henry Rowell.
W.W. Norton. $24.95.
featured poem
The Storm-struck Tree
As the storm-struck oak leaned closer to the house —
The remaining six-story half of the tree listing toward the glass box
Of the . . .
The remaining six-story half of the tree listing toward the glass box
Of the . . .