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SUMMER POETRY SPECIAL
Demi Whitnell
Demi Whitnell’s poem ‘My summer friend’
Sven Kretzschmar
Sven Kretzschmar’s poems ‘A Private Sphere’, ‘Involuntarily Awake’, and ‘ A dream’
mr oCean and Floer
mr Ocean (poetry) and Floer (music) – ‘A Twilight Shore’
Robert Cooperman
Robert Cooperman’s poems ‘Cerise’. ‘Reuben Plays the Painted Mandolin’, and ‘Ruby Clair Tempts Reuben’
Gianna Sannipoli
Gianna Sannipoli’s poem ‘Summer of Blues’
Lauren Scharhag
Lauren Scharhag’s poems ‘Return’, ‘Jesus Flicks’, and ‘Girl with a Cigarette’
Shelby Lynn Lanaro
Shelby Lynn Lanaro’s poems ‘Yellowing’ and ‘Date Night’
Kelsie Renehan
Kelsie Renehan’s poems ‘NOT SPEAKING VERY WELL’, ‘KATIE//FOR ALL THE GHOSTS IN OHIO’, and ‘JACOB//JAKE & KELSIE DRIVE TO HOUSTON’
COLUMNS
Letters from Berlin
Annie Mark-Westfall on why summer 2019 was the end of her honeymoon phase with Berlin
Guest Column
Jennifer Battisti’s creative non-fiction story ‘Bad Girls’
SUMMER FAVOURITES FROM THE VAULT
Behind Domestic Lines
Jami Ingledue on why boring summers are okay and the need for free play
Soapbox
Mike Hembury on deadzones, drought, and the need for action now
The Book Doctor
In our new column The Book Doctor, Caroline Donahue writes on the hunger to write and writing habits that work
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