Stonecoast Review

The Literary Journal of the Stonecoast MFA

Poetry

Issue 21

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London, 2016

By Sneha Sub­ra­man­ian Kanta
My first memory of London is rain from inside Heathrow cold air coming in every time someone… Read More

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Maasweeseexay (Monument Mountain)

By Bonney Hartley
Thou face forget thy heart thy vision. Thou gaze on white vil­lages swarm­ing… Read More

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Grade School Blues

By Derk Otsuji
I put olives on my finger tips—and made grapes of brine. I counted street lamps like beads of a rosary… Read More

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Ms. Peters and the Thousand Paper Cranes

By Joanne Durham
After Ms. Peters’ purple dresses sagged on her frail frame, her cough inter­rupt­ed each lilting phrase… Read More

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Hive Mind

By Mar­galit Katz
Metal clangs and shriek­ing rever­ber­ate down the hallway before we’ve even hit 8am… Read More

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We Are Raw

By Rishona Michael
We steal four filet mignons for every workday of the week. Except Sunday we eat out… Read More

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Colloquy for the States — after Archibald MacLeish (1939)

By Nina Barufaldi
There’s talk, says Illi­nois There’s always talk, says Alaska There’s talk on the east wind, says Illi­nois… Read More

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Crescent Shaped Dents in the Palms of My Hands

By Bonnie Markowski
christ­mas morning, 1968, Irish coffee at dinner. The aroma of roasted beans can’t mask that smell… Read More

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This is the Place

By Z! Haukeness
This is the place where I under­stood mag­no­lia trees mir­rored the beauty on my insides. And… Read More

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reader, i’m sorry if this image is now yours to carry too

By BEE LB
my mother’s on the phone with my brother who said he wrote me a letter but didn’t. i told her to ask him why. we’ll see what she says that… Read More

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We Know That Our Emperors are Naked

By Mary Rohrer-Dann
Full moon. High tide. High seas. Pacific sweeps across the 101… Read More

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The Rio Grande

By Lizeth De La Luz
Under water you are still . an iri­des­cent trace of . corners pealed… Read More

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Dear Moranda Smith

By Richard Hamilton
The last fretful hour mending poems. It is my job to see a blade of grass… Read More

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The Stonecoast Review is the lit­er­ary journal of the Stonecoast MFA at the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Maine.

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