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Dec 17, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Forrest Gander
Poems / Ad Policy This article appears in the January 2025 issue. *She wasn’t fixed, necessarily, on happinesswhich she couldn’t, in any case, distinguishfrom luck. What she wanted was to flourish. Happiness, she said once, is for amateurs. He spoke earnestly, looking into her eyes for confirmation—of what? She listened as though there could be a secretwrapped in each of his words. His breath was a little bad. His eyes, round and small and withoutnoticeable lashes.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
bombmagazine.org | Renee Gladman |Mary Ellen Solt |Forrest Gander |Ryan Chapman
We’re grateful to all of the independent publishers out there for championing new and exciting voices—and for the conversations that they’ve inspired in BOMB. DorothyMy Lesbian Novel by Renee GladmanFor the Sapphic friend who is the main character of their story.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
thecreativeindependent.com | Forrest Gander
Poet and translator Forrest Gander on walking the San Andreas Fault, translation as a giving up of ego, and deepening your ability to create complex work.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Forrest Gander
“Mojave Ghost” Article continues after advertisementMen arm themselves with facts. They say, already reaching, Let mesee that. They ask, seriously, Whois your second favorite tenor sax playerbetween ’63 and ’65? Eachthinks the other is a bit emptier, morecardboard than himself, that he alonemade the necessary decisions. OnlyI live the real real, he thinks. I think. Night wind clanging rope against the flagpole. There is nothing in me nowof what I was before. That’swhat he tells himself.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
letraslibres.com | Forrest Gander
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
vqronline.org | Forrest Gander
Bay-facing scarps to the east bound beds of yellow-orange sand and sedge. And broken mollusk valvesstud the loamy fill in this paleochannel of the Susquehanna. Pollen records tell of pine, spruce, and birch— temperate daysfollowing the violent whoomph of a bolide that scooped out Chesapeake Bay, leaving a craterto fill first with seawater and then fresh as hundreds of new rivers gushed from the continent’s mangled edge.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
poetryfoundation.org | Forrest Gander |Collection Ecopoetry
While globalization draws us together, industrialization and human population pressures continue to take their toll on natural habitats. So many species are being snuffed out and so quickly that ecologists refer to it as “the sixth mass extinction.” As a result, many of us find ourselves asking whether the view of human beings as a species independent from others justifies our exploitation of natural resources and sets dire consequences into motion.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Forrest Gander
Nina Iskrenko was a mother of two. She was educated as a physicist, though she wanted to study music.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
ndbooks.com | Forrest Gander
Powerful, mind-blowing, devastatingly profound, Forrest Gander is among the most extraordinary poets of North American poetry and of the poetry of our time.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
bombmagazine.org | Forrest Gander |Christy Rupp
Who can say whether it’s due to the sun and the flatness of the landscape or the melting tar on the road or the relative likeliness of a rattlesnake by the porch steps, but it seems to me that those who are born in the desert tend to look down far more than up or ahead.
