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Emily Pettit

Emily Pettit is the author of two chapbooks HOW (Octopus Books) and WHAT HAPPENED TO LIMBO (Pilot Books). She is an editor for notnostrums (notnostrums.com) and Factory Hollow Press. More poems can be found online (Octopus, Sixth Finch, Strange Machine) and in print (Invisible Ear, and, soon, Skein and SUPERMACHINE.)

Recent Work

BECAUSE YOU CAN HAVE THIS IDEA ABOUT BEING…

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It is not an answer I am mapping. A definite / and timely expression of acceptance. / The burn bags are missing and what can this / mean? Error…

HOW TO RECOGNIZE WHEN YOU HAVE BEHAVED…

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I put my hand on your hand. Mostly I meant to / be good. It was the shaking sky and what I wanted / to see below. It is always shaking where I…

RED WINGS COLLAPSING

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/ What do you call a field of black telephones ringing? / / A problem? Sometimes I make ridiculous gestures / / with my arms and legs, and…

HOW TO RECOGNIZE A STRANGER

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Shame had got us down. A monsoon / impulse. A ship on fire flying through the sky. / We are like, We need a banquet and a meeting. / It’s not a…

Subscribed by Emily Pettit

Jordan Stempleman

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Lizards like phoenixes and lizards / and dragons and phoenixes and elephants / and snakes and unicorns and giraffe. / / I’m having another baby…

To Sally Beauvais

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In his poem “The New York School” / when Joseph Bradshaw writes “I wonder / if their hearts are dying too” he means / his…

Brandon Downing

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1. / / Here comes your son, with a white scarf tied nicely around his face. / / / / 2. / / The powerful family story becomes a shitty…

Another Christmas

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I spent two hours last night listening / to Cool Hand Luke singing “Plastic Jesus.” / What’s that in my head? It’s a sound, it’s not /…

Books by Emily Pettit

Emily Pettit, Goat in the Snow

Goat in the Snow

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