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  • Book Review: Orbital

    Book Review: Orbital

    Six astronauts rotate in a spacecraft above Earth, conducting experiments and collecting data. They circle the planet sixteen times, seeing sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets. The “whip-crack of morning” arrives every ninety minutes. In the span of a day, they cross five continents, see autumn and spring, glaciers and deserts, wilderness and war zones. Harvey…

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  • New in Shop: Poetry Cards

    New in Shop: Poetry Cards

    If you are a reader of A Thousand Mornings, you know the role poetry plays in our lives. In a world that is going to shambles, where each day crosses a new line, it becomes incredibly hard to go on with your life. To notice things, to enjoy small pleasures, to set goals, to practice…

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  • A Held Breath

    A Held Breath

    Dense dark day, two sun chairssit on the lawn in the rain.Which stops. A mist comes toroost in the leafy intervals oftrees over-burdened in mid-September. It still seems farfrom turning time. August, where did you go? The waterglobes that are mist hand witha look of permanence. Down thestreet houses go soft in it,color smears on…

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  • Poetry Corner: Volume 12

    Poetry Corner: Volume 12

    We are sipping tea as we are writing this, trying to create the warmth and kindness Leila Chatti speaks about. Rain is lashing hard against the window as if its arrival is a second coming. Then, we are all looking to pour some of the madness in a tea cup and brew some intimacy. So…

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  • Short Book Reviews: Volume 1

    Short Book Reviews: Volume 1

    Yellowface gives us a glimpse of the publishing industry. It reveals just how skewed it is, how it brackets authors into genres, and how little concern it has for ethics. When Athena dies and June steals her unpublished manuscript, it’s at once a success compared to her forgotten and short-lived debut.

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