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Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time

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Write Letter to Billy

Cover of "Fugue State," by Brian Evenson, which has smears of neutral colors and unreadable typography in the lower right corner.

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Fugue State

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Upright Beasts

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Unbearable Splendor

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Participation

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Cover of "Blindsight," by Greg Hewett, focusing on different sizes and colors of rectangles. Colors range from purple, pink, and yellow.

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Blindsight

Cover for Quincy Toupe's "Avalanche," featuring a sketched figure playing a horn which releases a black swirling mass.

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Avalanche

Book cover featuring a collage of our women's eye profiles over a white background with faded sketches and the title intertwined with the images

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When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

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The Body Ghost

Cover of "The Book of Medicines," by Linda Hogan, featuring a drawing of a green turtle overlaid on a crescent moon.

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The Book of Medicines

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The Tortoise of History

Cover of "The Blue Girl," by Laurie Foos, which has a pink background and an image of a moon pie above the title.

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The Blue Girl

Cove4r of Rosa Guy's "Bird at My Window," with the top half all white and the bottom half features a bird flying through an open window that is shadowed in a red hue.

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Bird at My Window

Beautiful Mess Home & Garden

Mark Rothko

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Why We Live with Animals

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Verging on the Pertinent

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Whorled

Book cover featuring two women's faces stitched together at teh middle and an albino crocodile in the middle of a dark green background with the title and author written in scratchy white text

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Jawbone

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Cover of "Margaret & Dusty," by Alice Notley, which features a close-up photo in black and white of a woman's face.

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Margaret & Dusty

Book Cover featuring four rectangular paper cut outs of different colors featuring flowers, a dress, art, and a bird

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Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

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Cover of "Isle of the Signatories," by Marjorie Welish, which shows signatures and writing in blue ink, but the writing and signatures have been inversed, so they are not readable.

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Isle of the Signatories

Cover of "Pretentiousness," by Dan Fox, which features a large letter P in white with the rest of the title in smaller font. The rest of the cover is pure black.

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Pretentiousness

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The Impossibly

Cover of "Testify," by Joseph Lease, which shows an image of a chain link fence that is colored in shades of orange and blue and contains a chain and padlock.

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Testify

Open Letter

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Procession (FNCR 2026)

Cover of "Easter Sunday," by Tom Clark, featuring a blue background with a focus on a painting of three ceramic jars in different styles.

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Easter Sunday

Cover of "Empty Pockets," by Dale Herd, which shows a small segment of a few different highway signs and a street lamp under a gray sky.

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Empty Pockets

Cover of the Spring 2026 Subscription featuring images of the five titles; "...Again", "Squirming", "Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun", "Ada", and "Yniga".

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Spring 2026 Subscription

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Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to be Born

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Unlocking the Exits

This image features the cover of the novel "Hyper" by Agri Ismaïl. The cover design is striking with its vibrant green background and white, bold text that states the title and author's name.

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Hyper

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Alive at the End of the World

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Big Cabin

Cover of "How to Be Perfect," by Ron Padgett, which features a detailed drawing in muted colors of a bird perched on some sort of wall mount.

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How to Be Perfect

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Truth, War, and the Dream-Game

Cover of Greg Hewett's "darkacre," showcasing a window looking into another window, which shows green trees.

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darkacre

Cover of the collection Relational Ethics and Epics, which features six different titles; "The Eros Conspiracy", "Fighting Is Like A Wife", "Margaret & Dusty". "Not Here", "They And We Will Get Into Trouble For This", and "Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet Born".

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Relational Ethics and Epics

Cover of "Half in Shade," by Judith Kitchen, which is an black and white photograph of a lady sitting on a fence, wearing a suit, and has her feet propped on a tire.

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Half in Shade

Cover of Bob Kaufman's "Cranial Guitar," featuring a vague sketch of a guitar, shaded in blue with a yellow center, and the left side in a shade of bright yellow.

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Cranial Guitar

Cover of "Exhibit of Forking Paths," by James Grinwis, which has a green circuit board and metallic holes.

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Exhibit of Forking Paths

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Kit Robinson : Determination

Book cover featuring an olive green background with an image of Abe Lincoln in the center bottom with his face covered by an outstretched hand

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Savage Conversations

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Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours

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You Never Know

Book cover featuring image of the tops of dead trees reaching into a white sky from a ground point of view with author and title in skinny black text centered

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You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake

Book Cover of "Fog & Car" featuring geometric shapes of different colors imitating a sunset over a body of water

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Fog & Car

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Bard, Kinetic

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Cover of "Flickering Shadows," by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau, featuring blues and golds, bodiless hands reaching for a drum, and a mountain range in the background.

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Flickering Shadows

Cover of "Sesame," by Jack Marshall, which focuses on half of the cover in a shade of dark blue with the other half in black with a small circle of white flecks that spreads across that half.

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Sesame

Cover of "The Marvelous Bones of Time," by Brenda Coultas, which features a drawing of a young child in small clothes, holding a stick with a speak bubble on top, and surrounded by a bright pink paint.

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The Marvelous Bones of Time

Cover of "DANCE," by Lightsey Darst which has swirling ribbons of text on paper, as well as a blue background.

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DANCE

Savage Conversations by LeAnne Howe

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Savage Conversations

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Transcircularities

Cover of "Cross Worlds," edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright, which features a black and white photo of a group of people, excluding their heads, and it also contains green, orange, and red rectangles containing text.

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Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics

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Kyle Schlesinger, ed. : A Poetics of the Press: Interviews with Poets, Printers, & Publishers

Cover of "Sentences and Rain," by Elaine Equi, which has several colorful lines crisscrossing the page with a blue and black background.

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Sentences and Rain

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Voice-Over

Book cover featuring image of a stack of paper with a black and white image of a women looking to the side in the center

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Vow to Poetry

Book cover featuring blurred image of the corner of a red car rushing down a road with the blurry sky and greenery beside it

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White Palazzo

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The Devil of the Provinces

Cover of "Hotel Lambosa," which has a sketched illustrations of a woman holding a small child and a man leaning towards them from the side. They are all colored in muted pastels and the border of the cover is in a turquois blue.

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Hotel Lambosa

Cover of "Make Yourself Happy," by Eleni Sikelianos, which shows a blurry image of a crowd of people, some with hands raised, others with cameras out, and there is also a drum flying through the air above the crowd.

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Make Yourself Happy

Cover of "The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead," by Eleni Sikelianos, which features collage style images: a close-up of someone's eyes, a person on a bicycle, and a man laying down. The rest of the background is a checkered patterned in varying cool tones.

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The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead

Cover of "The History of the Future: American Essays," by Edward McPherson, which shows a map of the United States that is bisected with roadways and contains red dots in varying sizes.

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The History of the Future: American Essays

Cover of "Sarah— Of Fragments and Lines," by Julie Carr, which features a blue and green watercolor background and four little birds sitting on a wire.

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Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines

Cover of the collection Women in Translation, showcasing the covers of six titles; "After The Winter", "The Book of Anna", "Jawbone", "The Remainder", "The Story of My Teeth", and "When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back".

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Women in Translation

Cover of "Glass Houses," by George Rabasa, which shows an image of a window with a gauzy curtain, and this window looks out on a street in black and white with the only color to be found in the tail lights of a parked car.

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Glass Houses

Book Cover of "No Names" featuring an envelope textured image of a man standing on a hillside cliff landscape overlooking water and hills

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No Names

Cover of "Teducation," by Ted Joans, which features an illustration of a crouched over figure that has the head of a fish and the body of some kind of monster.

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Teducation

Cover of "Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War," by Edward Sanders, which features a black and white image of half a mustachioed man's face and upper body, as well as blue and green splotches of color behind him.

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Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War

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They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This

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Word Group

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Windeye

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Working Words

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Unfinished Building

Book Cover of "The Aquatics" featuring a man's face overlayed by red waves on a red background

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The Aquatics

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Procession by Katherena Vermette

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Procession

Book Cover featuring navy and red bold text that spells out the title multiple times over a bright blue background

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American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion

Cover of "The Lakestown Rebellion," by Kristin Lattany, featuring a saturated image of a construction sign reading 'Road Construction Ahead'.

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The Lakestown Rebellion

Cover of "The Moon in Its Flight," by Gilbert Sorrentino, featuring a blurry photo of an old granite structure.

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The Moon in Its Flight

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Vertigo

Cover of "Dark. Sweet.," by Linda Hogan, which features a black and white photo of a gnarled tree, a bush, and wild grass.

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Dark. Sweet.

Cover of "Our Sometime Sister," by Norah Labiner, which features a black and white image of a woman who has writing overlaid on top of her.

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Our Sometime Sister

Book cover featuring black background with white and gold art in the bottom left corner and title and author in the top center

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Indecency

Cover of the anthology "Beats at Naropa" with the title in a yellow rectangle, the names of the authors in a vertical red column, and the name of the editors at the bottom in a blue rectangle. The center of the cover features four people in black and white.

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Beats at Naropa

Cover of "In the Room of Never Grieve," by Anne Waldman, which features an illustration of a woman hiding behind a white tree as an orange plane flies above her.

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In The Room of Never Grieve