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The Current Issue: Summer 2021 Vol. 128 No. 2
Summer 2021 Vol. 128 No. 2
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From the Editor - Summer 2021 ~ James Carson
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In the Beginning (poem) ~ Nicholas Bradley
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My Moccasins ~ Leslie Alexander
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Marcus Aurelius ~ Eric Bryan
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The Swim (poem) ~ Bruce Meyer
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A COVID Lexicon ~ Wayne Grady
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Current Events (poem) ~ Richard Luftig
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The Kingston Prize ~ The Kingston Prize 2019
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We Were Admiring Our New Wood Floors (poem) ~ Henry Hughes
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Bag of Bills ~ Rona Altrows
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A Wild Sweet Pea (poem) ~ Zachery Cooper
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The Diagnosis ~ Lynn Kielley
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OK Boomer, Show Us Your Moves (poem) ~ Glenn Arthur Sweazey
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Boundary Lines (poem) ~ Sarain Frank Soonias (with French translation by Claudia Rupnik)
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The Neanderthal Within Us ~ Ray Argyle
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Rudyard Kipling ~ Barry Mayhew
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Nineteenth-Century Nephologies (poem) ~ Anthony Purdy
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The Table ~ Stephen Finucan
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The Sadness of Antique Shops (poem) ~ Brian Bartlett
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Bolivia: Across the Altiplano by Train ~ Ian Birch
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Photographs of Lake Superior (poem) ~ Peter Unwin
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After COVID-19, Will Live Music Live Again? ~ Christopher Johnstone
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It felt good. (poem) ~ D S Maolalai
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On the Rocks ~ Graeme Hunter
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Elegy for my friend the accountant (poem) ~ Ronna Bloom
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The Miramichi (poem) ~ Ken Victor
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