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Fall 2023 Volume 97 Number 3

Featuring a portfolio of Black British Writing edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf, this issue includes work by Maithili Aldabaran, Jenny Browne, Brett Beach, Nancy Welch, Adrienne Su, Heidi Lasher, Dujie Tahat, Brian Weinstein, Nona Caspers, Lauren Camp, Jayson Iwen, Noel Quiñones, Ted Kooser, Scott John Murray, John Kinsella, Momtaza Mehri, Jay Bernard, Elontra Hall, Nick Makoha, Jason Allen-Paisant, Dean Atta, Anthony Joseph, Inua Ellams, Dzifa Benson, Raymond Antrobus, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Jacob Ross, Yomi Ṣode, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Zakia Carpenter-Hall, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Roger Robinson, Adam Lowe, Belinda Zhawi, Caleb Femi, Kandace Siobhan Walker, malakaï sargeant, Samatar Elmi, Warsan Shire, Malika Booker, Ae Hee Lee, and Lynn DeTurk.

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Meditation during the Sufferings and Deaths of Others

I did not deserve to be beaten, / and I did not deserve ballet lessons— / except insofar as everyone deserves ballet lessons. / Me mum thought I was well worth beating…
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