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New Fiction: ‘Taro’
Poem: ‘Fog Poem Number 71’
Poem: ‘Friendship’
New Fiction: ‘He Dreams About the Bunny Ranch’
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Poem: ‘Take to the Days a Fist of Starlight’
Poem: ‘Our Son Comes Over’
Alta Journal
’s Top Poetry 2021
‘Alta Journal’ Fiction 2021
New Fiction: ‘Sleep Nights’
Poem: ‘[chiasmus with all the other animals]’
Poem: ‘[trance poem with the gray stone]’
Poem: ‘[to the voice of the age]’
‘(Water/Places/A Time)’
‘Oreo Arroyo’
‘Cancel Culture (The Bardo)’
Poem: Calling Things What They Are
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Poem: The First Lesson
The Last Lady of California
Poem: Stillwater Cove
Poem: How to Draw the Horizon
Preface to a Photograph —Delano, CA 1976
Proof: A Poem
Larry’s Biggest Mistake
Portrait of a Bracero as José Olivares
Alta Journal
’s Noir Story Contest Winners
Noir Winner: Options Narrowed
Noir First Runner-Up: I’m Leavin’ You, Baby
Noir Second Runner-Up: Dirty Secrets
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Alta Fiction 2020
Alta Poetry 2020
Not Without
“In Case You Forgot, I Am Not Your Negro”
Low & Leaving
“Aunt Jemima is the Picture of the American Dream”
Daughter
Time Invents Us
Summons
Bat Boy: A Poem
Imagines*: A Poem
The Making of a Poem
To the Woman Who Said She Could Hear My Accent
Note for Daughters: A Poem
New Fiction: The Turnaround
New Fiction: Answer