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Catherine Cafferty

Catherine Cafferty spends most of her time on NYC subways. She has an MA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Recent Work

Voyage

Catherine Cafferty

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There’s the belly of a country—took me in as outlier, / bartered for my edges, called me a little ways to go. / Led me to Morocco, a…

from “Apprentice”

Catherine Cafferty

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Archetype may be just a trinket— / I see my heart in a snail / all our big and little gods / fashioned from fear / / I am only a cell /…

Coupling constellations

Catherine Cafferty

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The green leafy gaze, a loon on / the lake. / / By night mice in a dish, when the torch / is on. And squirrels want fireside. / / I cut…

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Ink Node, 2009–2021

Brian Christian

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Ink Node was conceived in Seattle in 2008 by Brian Christian and Evan Nagle, who imagined a different model for what a literary publication could…

The News

Dora Malech

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late December, 2016 // Now’s news begins with babies on the way. Just one’s inside me, but another’s ascending to the throne our nation prides…

One day I laid down the bruise of you

Valerie Wetlaufer

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In those five-inch stilettos, / she thought you were fierce. / You wanted to patent-leather wound. / / But I was watching the entire…

Dear Reader–

Dora Malech

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I miss the smell of my skinned knee the summer / I pulled my whole self alone under the covers / and willed it to heal. By it I mean insert / …

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