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Join the underground generation. • A literary magazine pushing boundaries since 1957. Edited by Dale Peck, published by John Oakes. Now online, no paywall! Profile art by Alice Tippit. evergreenreview.com

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“This is the man who single-handedly raised two little girls aged five and ten, with fierce courage and grace, after burying the love of his life.” —“Emtholampilo (The Place Where We Get Life)” by Nkanyiso Siziba. Art by Jane Fine @janefine.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/emthola...

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Emtholampilo (The Place Where We Get Life)

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Deborah Kay Kelly @dkkelly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@evergreenreview.bsky.social Thank you so much. evergreenreview.com/read/workhor...

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Workhorse and other poems

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“I’ve carried my heart like a third person. Whom I’ve made to lead. I’ve carried my heart, a scared cat. Made it swim. Used it as a metaphor for where your news strikes me. . . .” —“Workhorse” and two more poems by @dkkelly.bsky.social. Art by Klea McKenna. evergreenreview.com/read/workhor...

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Workhorse and other poems

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Joan García Viltró @joangv66.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A week on, and the pleasure is total. Thanks a thousand to The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social for publishing my three poems, paired with Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes's @elizabethpedinotti.bsky.social art. Thanks too to editors Jee Leong Koh and Joy Amina Garnett @joyamina.bsky.social.

The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“There was a hipster looking guy with...a pool cue in one hand...cradling a baby with the other. I think the ad was trying to tell me that Williamsburg was a place where you really can have it all.” —“Public Sentiment: Postcards from New York” by Peter Scott. evergreenreview.com/read/public-...

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Public Sentiment: Postcards from New York

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“They wouldn’t tell me: the swell of the sea, the fish, that avert my gaze in their scurrying, schoolish way; my muscles when I’m swimming; my skin when I anoint it...” —“The Secret” & more poems by @joangv66.bsky.social. Art by @@elizabethpedinotti.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-sec...

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The Secret and other poems

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Most people have not heard of Yaqub ‘James’ Sanua. For specialists in nineteenth-century Egyptian history, though, this oddball has attained cult status over the past few decades . . .” —“The Historians of a Nation Are Not Careless Men” by Raphael Cormack. evergreenreview.com/read/the-his...

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The Historians of a Nation Are Not Careless Men

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Your Martin Luther King sits on top of Mount Rushmore, cast in stone, like a death mask, visited once a year. My Martin Luther King is wearing his best blue suit to host the freedom ball tonight.” —“The Day Du Bois Died” by Calvin Baker. Art by W. E. B. Du Bois. evergreenreview.com/read/the-day...

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The Day Du Bois Died

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"I want John Darnielle to send me sixteen dollars. I don't know why, I just do. And I have a plot so fiendish to make him do it, check it out. I'm gonna do a facsimile edition of a 1957 magazine that ran a Robbe-Grillet piece. This fuckin guy, he won't even care what piece is it. 16 dollars please"

The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

SUMMER READING IDEA: Order a perfect facsimile copy of the summer 1957 issue of the Evergreen Review, Vol. 1, No. 3! $16 (+ shipping), exclusively at the Evergreen Review online store: evergreenreview.com/shop

The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“On the plane ride from Miami to Tegucigalpa, Owen Mills thinks more about money than he thinks about his mother. Valerie has been out of his life too long to be more than an idea. She’s a concept, right?” —“Bad Blood” by Mark Jacobs. Art by Pablo Zelaya Sierra. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-blo...

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“She’d married Desire because she was sure. He would provide the kind of life she never feared would split at the seams. . . .” Up now: “Reimagining What My Mother Would Have Done If She’d Had the (Eye)” by Zibusiso Mpofu. Art by Michalina Janoszanka. evergreenreview.com/reimagining-...

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Reimagining What My Mother Would Have Done If She’d Had the (Eye)

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Read an excerpt of @livingjelly.bsky.social's GLORY HOLE in @evergreenreview.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/glory-h...

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“As we sit at this juncture of hospicing the old and dreaming the new into being, I think deeply about the literary legacies we live and love . . . .” —“Somehow We Survive: Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Soweto Uprising” by Uhuru Phalafala. evergreenreview.com/read/somehow...

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Somehow We Survive: Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Soweto Uprising

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“Fifty years constitute more than a mere chronological milestone; they represent a half-century of a ‘telegraphed punch’ that landed on the jaw of an empire.” Up now: “The Rhythms of Resistance: The Soweto Uprising Fifty Years Later” by Maakomele R. Manaka. evergreenreview.com/read/the-rhy...

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The Rhythms of Resistance: The Soweto Uprising Fifty Years Later

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“There’s an aspect to these shootings that nobody talks about, a sense that by not getting gorped we’ve accomplished something . . .” Up now at Evergreen: “Hide” and two more poems by Edward Johnson. Art by Maritza Ranero. evergreenreview.com/read/explode...

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Exploded Portmanteaux and Wayward Palindromes and other poems

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“Marc Vincenz’s ‘No More Animal Poems’ is not so much a Cassandra cry in advance of impending ecological disaster as a paean to a prelapsarian world in which humans and animals intermix.” —“An Ode to Extinction” by Alexander Cigale. Art: @karsenheagle.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/an-ode-...

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An Ode to Extinction: Marc Vincenz’s No More Animal Poems

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John Madera @johnmadera.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Read Alexander Cigale's astute review of Marc Vincenz's NO MORE ANIMAL POEMS (White Pine Press) in EVERGREEN REVIEW! evergreenreview.com/read/an-ode-... (Message me for a review copy, etc.) Cc: @evergreenreview.bsky.social

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An Ode to Extinction: Marc Vincenz’s No More Animal Poems

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“Jean’s overzealousness about Christ was the driving factor of her life, and my tame Muslim family was the perfect prey for her, since she’d never managed to convert her husband.” Up now: “The Dark Duality of US-Iran Relations” by Mohammad Hakima. evergreenreview.com/read/the-dar...

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The Dark Duality of US-Iran Relations

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“Tonight, I learn the umami of iron by pulling a man through it and the fence quakes in my grip of green. The wire croons along my stem. Rust powders like dry skin . . .” —“Chambēlī Bleeds Between Borders” and more poems by Hannan Khan. Art by Adam Francis Scott. evergreenreview.com/read/chambel...

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Chambēlī Bleeds Between Borders and other poems

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“Africa never ceases to amaze. Tatum and his hosts find an adequate three-star restaurant even in this forest. The cuisine includes a number of dishes that delight the palate.” Up now: an excerpt from “The Terrible Fives,” by Ishmael Reed. Art by Devan Shimoyama. evergreenreview.com/read/the-ter...

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The Terrible Fives

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“The egret straightens himself, looks to the right and then left, looks up at the chandelier over the dining-room table, flies up onto the Medusa-shaped lights, and perches along the stem of her braids.” —“Emergency Room” by Bram Gunther. Art by Tanya Marcuse. evergreenreview.com/read/emergen...

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“In academia the use of the word ‘cult’ is controversial. The reason? ‘The cult wars.’ Which I’d never heard of until I sold ‘American Trickster’ to the University of California Press.” —“The Cult Wars” by @rumarshall.bsky.social. Art by Jean-Frédéric de Waldeck. evergreenreview.com/read/the-cul...

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“The morning’s events were embarrassing, and that was being nice about it. The eviction trucks came—loudly drove up their cul-de-sac at eight AM.” Up now: “Naked Elijah and the Twin Flames,” a new short story by Emelda Gwitimah. Art by Raffaele Mainella. evergreenreview.com/rea/naked-el...

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Naked Elijah and the Twin Flames

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“Both left and right overstate her influence, flatten her philosophy, and use a particular image of Rand for their own advantage. But most egregiously, she is so rarely thought about as a novelist.” —@ciaramoloney.bsky.social on ‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand. evergreenreview.com/read/on-the-...

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On The Fountainhead

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ciara moloney @ciaramoloney.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"Reading her most famous novel, The Fountainhead, I was constantly struck by the yawning gap between the Ayn Rand everyone talks about... and the contents of the book." my latest / longest gestating, a christian socialist defence of ayn rand (of all things) for @evergreenreview.bsky.social

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On The Fountainhead

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Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

was so happy when @evergreenreview.bsky.social finally put my Big Family has a Funeral ghost story into the world evergreenreview.com/read/dori-wh...

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Dori (Who Walked Barefoot Over the Mountain)

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

“I’m holding hands with a group of strangers in a circle, and we’re all jumping up and down screaming ‘I’m a piece of shit! I’m a stupid piece of shit! I’m a stupid fucking piece of shit!’ This is our first task in the world of clowning.” —“Clowning” by Jamie Kahn. evergreenreview.com/read/clowning/

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Sharon Butler @sharonbutler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Historic publication. Pleased to have my work included 🙏 !

The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“The man’s underpants emerged above his trousers; a strip of waist, loose flesh with the complexion of sliced turkey, was exposed; and a shirt hem flowered from under a sweater.” —“St. Patrick Drives Out the Snakes” by Mark Martin. Art by Sir William Orpen. evergreenreview.com/read/st-patr...

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St. Patrick Drives Out the Snakes

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“As some men do, he opens with a question that’s really a wedge. ‘I saw your work in “--” a while back. Do you write protest poems?’ . . .” —“Fourteen-line note to self as we enter a darkling time” and more poems by Erin Redfern. Art by @sharonbutler.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/fourtee...

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Fourteen-Line Poems

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“There are numerous culturally accredited conduits for time travel: phone booth, tanning bed, sleeping bag, hot tub, and so on. I found my way by way of a chance encounter with a discarded pile of Artforums.” —“Back Issues” by Jessica Almereyda. Art by Wolf Paw. evergreenreview.com/read/back-is...

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“You are twenty-six years old. The day before you are admitted into Akeso, a psychiatric clinic in Milnerton, Cape Town, you see the sky blinking and depositing stars across the horizon.” —“Death Is for the Living” by @rofhiwamaneta.bsky.social. Art by Lynd Ward. evergreenreview.com/read/death-i...

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Death Is for the Living

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

“Everything about the mother-daughter relationship, particularly during the teenage years, is claustrophobic. Mother-daughter conflicts take place in tight, contained spaces: cars, kitchens, dressing rooms.” Up now: “Blood Bonds” by Hannah Engler Harvey. Art by Margo Hoff.

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“I am not a synesthete, yet I often perceive Tippit’s paintings through multiple senses. It’s a strange feeling but true to my experience in encountering open forms . . .” —“The Rose Is Obsolete,” an essay on artist Alice Tippit by @simpsome.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/the-ros...

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The Rose Is Obsolete

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“There were paintings on the huge ceiling, of men and women in robes, shepherds and sheep, men holding sticks with a curve at the top, and clouds and fires and skies. The men looked angry.” —“The Children Everywhere, Asleep” by Paul Cody. Art by Shanna Zentner. evergreenreview.com/read/the-chi...

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The Children Everywhere, Asleep

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 10/04/2026

Oh shit I have a reading tomorrow! For National Poetry Month. With bunch of cool people! On account of how I am secretly a poet. Here is the flier! You should come! I will be being as Whitmanaical as possible... DEETS AT singaporeunbound.org/event-list/2...

The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

“you pictured yourself crossing the river linking agadaz to reality as your eyes play the tape of fishermen netting dead bodies out of the river. . .” Up now: “agadaz: the river/ the dead bodies” and two more poems by Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi. Art by Lauren Drescher. evergreenreview.com/read/medusa-...

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Stan went inside, the sharp night air giving way to the fug of sweat and cigarette smoke, and spotted his four bandmates at the far end of the room, packing up their gear under two giant, hand-painted signs . . .” —“Neighbor” by James Rickman. Art by Laura Bruce. evergreenreview.com/read/neighbor/

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“A decade had passed since you’d returned to Dublin. I walked past the hardware store, still in business, a miracle, standing on what had once been our corner. I sent you a phone pic. Seconds later, you replied.” —“Valentine’s Day” by @joyamina.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/valenti...

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Valentine’s Day

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“In the aftermath of 2024’s bitterly divisive presidential election, the people of New Jersey looked to the skies for answers. What they saw made national news: drones the size of SUVs.” —“It Came From West Virginia” by Ann Lewinson. Art by @onwasow.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/it-came...

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It Came From West Virginia: How a mythology was made, one hoax at a time

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"the book speaks not just to gay male experience but to how queer life renews a curiosity about the constructed nature of the self generally." Eric Dean Wilson on Robert Glück's Jack the Modernist @evergreenreview.bsky.social

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The Sex We Need: On Reading Robert Glück in 2026

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Gabriel Mckee @secret-terror.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Fantastic review-essay of THE SAUCERIAN in the @evergreenreview.bsky.social : "So was Barker a trickster? A folklorist of the space age? Had Barker, in the Men in Black, created what Mckee calls “a metanarrative monster . . . from which he could not escape”?" evergreenreview.com/read/it-came...

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It Came From West Virginia: How a mythology was made, one hoax at a time

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

“I came late to the works of Robert Glück, looking for good gay sex. Who writes it well? I could pretend I was merely horny, but in truth I needed guidance . . . . ” —“The Sex We Need: On Reading Robert Glück in 2026” by Eric Dean Wilson. Art by Dean Sameshima. evergreenreview.com/read/the-sex...

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The Sex We Need: On Reading Robert Glück in 2026

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ICYMI: our editor-in-chief @dalepeck.bsky.social has a nonfiction/memoir piece up in the new issue of @yalereview.bsky.social! 🐶💔 yalereview.org/article/dale...

Dale Peck: “Dogsbody”

Dale Peck on the dogs of his childhood and the things we bury

The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“On the inauguration days of John Kennedy and Zohran Mamdani, January brought clear and cold; in 1961, Robert Frost was the poet invited, who at eighty-six had trouble reading the paper he held. . .” Up now: “Inaugurations in the life” by @sgardinier.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/inaugur...

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Inaugurations in the life

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

“A cartographer measures the course of a river snaking its way downstream. The border between my land and yours is harder, more distinct on paper than seen on the earth...” —“Poem for All the Times You Wanted a Straight Answer” by Shou Jie Eng. Art by Matt Lipps. evergreenreview.com/read/poem-fo...

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Poem for All the Times You Wanted a Straight Answer

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“This is the revolution—not a bang, but a tendril. A fracture in the planned city, a tiny, persistent mouth saying no to the cement-gray certainty of everything. . . . ” —“Ode to a Cracked Pavement” and two more poems by Aisha Khalid. Art by Ben Kendall. evergreenreview.com/read/night-s...

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Night Shift at the Memory Factory and Other Poems

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

“For hundreds of years the central symbol of the Masonic fraternity has been a capital letter ‘G’ circumscribed by an overlapping square and compass. . .The meaning of the letter ‘G’ is open to interpretation.” —“One Nation Under G.” by @robertguffey.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/one-nat...

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One Nation Under G.

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Besides, it works. Whatever rustic burrs It sands to flatness, whatever bends or blue notes It smooths to croony harmony, it works. It works. It simplifies the subtle problem . . .” —“Cure-All, End-All” and more poems by Stephen Kampa. Art by Mickey Aloisio. evergreenreview.com/read/cure-al...

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Cure-All, End-All and Other Poems

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