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Writing Toward Grief: A Conversation with Cass Donish

Cass Donish is a queer poet, writer, and educator from Greater Los Angeles. They earned an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where…

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Excerpts from “Kelly in Violet” by Cass Donish

These excerpts are reprinted from Cass Donish’s collection, Your Dazzling Death, published by Knopf in 2024. Read our interview with Cass Donish here. Cass…

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5 Poems by Dorothea Lasky

A green apple that ignites the night/ A green ghost with its mouth open/ On the fourth thumb a green ghost/ With a wild tongue

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“Blood Stains, Flame Tree” by Efe Rosario

There were at least eight of us around the flame tree. I can only remember William and Albert, who lived right below the apartment…

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“The Middle Ages” by Luci Arbus-Scandiffio

So you wake up / Smelling like woodchips / Picking the straw from your sleeve

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“Sacred Objects” by Elisa Luna Ady

Things we do not wish on: milk teeth, sunflower seeds, paper dolls

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“From the Sea We Come and Unto the Sea We Go” by Antony Paschos

The mass stops the minute Fishbone crosses the threshold of the church. The cantor stops unfolding his long masculine notes, and the priest’s chapped…