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	<description>No Poem Is the Only Poem. No Story Is the Only Story. It&#039;s Just One Planet. But There Are Many Stories. </description>
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		<title>My Father’s Razor; Gold Medal, ; The Warehouse; The Day the Music Died; The Apartment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Brice]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gold Medal

What do you think on that podium you’ve
worked all your life to mount...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How I Write</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Brice]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First thing, I wake up. At 76 not
being dead is essential. After
breakfast I read poetry, novels, 
essays, everything. They’re all
a part of my writing process.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Boricuamericano; A stop on the hunt for alcapurrias; I love The Smoke and my people; Every car model is the same if you get to the bones of it</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andres Lopez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I am
on coffee number four.
I have my father’s mouth
whistle through brown slits.
I liked his smile most
when he was around mamí,
his sisters.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Isn’t the End; I Think I’m Getting Stronger When I’m Weak Enough; The Dying Day Doesn’t Belong to Me; When I Reach for Something I’m Not Holding On to Anything; Sacrifice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Leight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Dying Day Doesn’t Belong to Me]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>THE ONE-NIGHTER; VIRGINIA ROSE; MAPLE MAN; RECOVERY; BEWARE THE MAN</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Grey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All the sap dripped from him.

Heirs licked the sweetness.
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		<title>What We Leave Uncounted; She Draws Places She Hasn’t Been; Things Still Waiting to Be Finished; Amateur Fossils of the Sleepless Night; Instructions for Listening to Silence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[D Anson Lee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If dreams left bones
I would sift them gently
from the sheets.
A rib of moonlight.]]></description>
		
		
		
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