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An Irrelevant Writer: The Letters of Shen Congwen; new fiction from Mary-Beth Hughes, Tim O’Sullivan, David Potter, and Yiyun Li; Daniel Alarcón translates Samanta Schweblin; Alec Soth’s Las Vegas Birthday; new poems from Matthew Rohrer, D. A. Powell, Jennifer Moxley, Giampiero Neri; and in If You See Something, Say Something, a project on tomorrow with Grant Wood, Graham Foust, Amy Leach, Jenny Davidson, and Paul Glimcher.

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That Reminds Me: Sneak Peek

That Reminds Me: Sneak Peek

"If he was a good boy, why are we wearing these?"

Kris Moran’s image of a masked woman, on the cover of APS 10, had many of our readers asking: Who is that girl? And then: That reminds me of…We decided to bring a group of APS contributors together and ask them right back. Part party, part prompt: Here is your chance to remember something, too. Join Glenn Kurtz and others on this Thursday, June 10th at The Kitchen.

Posted on June 9, 2010 | Comment | Permalink

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Poetry

Moon Jar, Century Unclear
by Ed Roberson

Part of the pearlescent surface is gone
from the glass back to sand, a label
of time, that through the losses narrowing
this one from the Phoenician through the hour-

glass’s opening to here, names this crust—
only in number grains of year, not the shift,
not the heat, the fires, the person of each
who held it through, held the jar against its slake,

archaeological glass breaks itself
down      from the outer layers inward into—
Feel the sandstorm of the glass dissolution
on the surface, the gritty cloud rise

out of the smooth, and transparence fade
in and out of its crust, a moon through the clouds.

Posted on March 3, 2010 | Comment | Permalink