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For over a decade SmokeLong has supported emerging writers through The Kathy Fish Fellowship, later renamed The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship. As we have grown, we’ve decided to offer a program...

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Poem with a Line from an Asterisk on page 15 of Marguerite Yourcenar’s Dark Brain of Piranesi We hang this morning over a twine line   like laundry betweenthe seesaw and the pendulum.   Smoke a few wo...

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out the window neighbors string clear bulbs across their lawn fearing the sun will not be sufficient this spring morning. I go out to get a haircut or have oral surgery, and the highway ferries me …