• Found Under a Chair Cushion

    Kathleen Ossip

    Fall 2019

    Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors' Choice. She was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and she teaches at The New School in New York. 

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    From La Ribera

    John R. Sesgo

    Campoamor and Santiago de la Ribera lie an hour’s bicycle ride from each other. On Antonio’s mental map each town is enclosed by a red circle, and a line of the same color weaves in and out of dirt roads and bramble patches and cornfields to connect both places. The sea spreads a mile or two in the east, its blue edge unmixing with the coast.

    On First Meeting Roddy Lumsden

    Kathleen Ossip


    Light: supreme optical clarity, quick-dry, scratch-resistant.
    Clouds: feather-pregnant, groaning, insistent.

    Exterior: A puzzle, one continuous Olde New Yorke alley.
    I did not know you. You did not know me.

    Five Love Poems

    Kaveh Akbar

    I meant to invite you
    to my confession
    and maybe I did
    it might
    have gotten lost in the mail
    or in the back
    of my mouth

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