SIGNIFICANT POETRY
by Sean Singer
Poems with jazz references used for the forces of good.

ALAN ALDA VARIATIONS,
PLUS FOUR
by Daniel Kane
An heir to the New York School offers a garland of poems to a national treasure.

THE CULT OF IKEA

by Tom Hartman
Whoudda thunk someone would think about buying a couch this much? Our East Bank editor ruminates.

THREE SHORT POEMS
by Joe Wenderoth
The author of the upcoming Letters to Wendy's shares a trio of short lyrics.

TWO POEMS
by Ethan Paquin
Two arguments, or should we say advice?


A SMALL MATTER
OF SO MANY THINGS
by Jessica Anthony
Certain tales come across as purely Darwinian; this short story would be one of them.


 
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GIVEN AND TWO POEMS

by Teresa Leo
Poet and critic from City of Brotherly Love pillages language and lyric schools in these furniture- and Goya-kissed flourishes.

TEN BODIES
by Wang Ping
One of our best poet's prose exegesis of motherhood and Minnesota.


GHOST BOXES

by Sebastian Matthews
An ex-girlfriend and Fedexes never mixes, but this poetic dissection affects.

PANTALOONING AND PLUMMETOR
by Andy Morgan
Methodical and also musical and audacious. Perhaps no better definition of a poem.

THREE POEMS
by Bob Slaymaker
Papa Williams is surely smiling at this, one of his descendents, with whom he must be well pleased.

TWO SISTERS
by Matt Rovner
Just another morning on the road with two loving siblings. Casting agent, docent?

EAST BANK APOLOGIA, WITH APPEARANCES
FROM NOAM CHOMSKY AND RICK ROCKWELL

by Daniel M. Nester

How do you fill a haiku-tanka section with no haiku or tanka? By enticing you with famous people's names, of course.

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