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Jangmi

It was as if we were shedding our very selves to become someone else.

Jennifer Egan

I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.

Jimena

I never left my wife, and she never left me, but this isn’t exactly true.

John Barth, Undergraduate Academic Adviser

Barth looked after his students beyond anything expected of him.

John Redding Goes to Sea

Thus John Redding grew to manhood, playing, studying and dreaming.

Journey to Kars

In a few days the troops were to go further on. I left the next day.

Karagiozis and the Four-Headed Beast

Takis brought down the demons that would pursue him the rest of his life.

Kickflip

“This is no vacation,” I told friends and reluctant donors.

Kicking Bear and Short Bull Give Their Testimony

Charge the ground till it glitters. It was God’s pleading in that rink.

Kinesis with Garden Implements

I want to bring the duality of us together, not spar with language.

Krassavitseh

They were such dummkopfs they kicked out the Jews.

Lagos

No one in Lagos slouches. Bravado pulsates through the room.

Language Immersion Seoul

No woman he’d ever been with responded so unmistakably.

Last Flight from Bordeaux

I bought chips from the one open store, but can’t figure out how to eat them.

Late in the Season

Frank Avery came into the kitchen. In his left hand he carried a .22 pistol.

Layover

The city is lit with all its lights. I’m up in the air. It is yes until I die.

Leach Pad

I became a realist the moment they tied a brick to my balls.

Learning to Write

I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.

Leaving Memphis

“I have a sneaking suspicion that we’re the same person,” she says.

Let Me Stay with You

“It’s so unfair being accused of doing something you didn’t do.”

Letters from a Prisoner

You’re safe here. A prison might be the safest place to meet a man.

Lewisburg and Other Poems

Desire whittled me a tool I’d never seen but knew how to use.

Lightning Takes the Form of Hope

Don’t worry baby, that’s just the way things be sometimes.

Listen to Me

Mark was spending his life with one of the world’s weaklings.

Little Gifts

His eyes, dark brown and unwavering as he delivered the details.

Little Road

There is still the same reaching of the tongue for that pink ridge.

Long Distance

I offer you these outs, and it stings when you take me up on them.

Love

A suitcase of the body slapped with stickers of scars from every location.

Magi and Other Poems

I’m always driving through the desert, on the interstate’s black river.

Malaga

We skip across the surface like a stone slung by a giant travel agent.