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Two Poems By James Toupin

This poem is published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.  Pain Clinic The...

Two Poems By Laureen Summers

These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.  When I...

Ode to Spouses of Diabetics and How They Find Us by Ephraim Sommers

This poem is published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.  ODE TO...

Surgery by Makena Metz

These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.  Surgery Waiting is...

Two Poems by C L Bledsoe

These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. This Is...

Two Poems by Tessa Augustyniak

These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. What Do...

Two poems by Addy Lugo

Addy Lugo is a finalist in the 2025 DC Poet Project, an annual open-to-all poetry competition created by Day Eight to support and surface...

Two Poems by Micki Topham

Micki Topham is a finalist in the 2025 DC Poet Project, an annual open-to-all poetry competition created by Day Eight to support and surface...

Three poems by Tony Medina

These poems are published connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community.  Broke Tin Pan Alley Hitchcock...

Two Poems By Alana McDonald

These poems are published connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community. The Guide (the flowers)First,...

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Two Poems by Jenna Cipolloni

Quarry The sun looks higher here by the quarry Daylight savings a forgotten grumblefor the sleep-deprived days of yestermonth. The time is truly 6:49, but soon thebiddies...

Two Poems by Faith Cotter

Beat An amniotic lake within meand you, floating then the deafening silence,static nothingness where I expected sound. For a week I am a shipwrecknot split open on rocky...

Two Poems by Ori Soltes

Late in the Game We sleep peacefully,side-by-side,except, by chance,when she or I turn outward, to the edgeof our plush and well-shaped bed. Never inward, it would...