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wrote Tom Sawyer and Raking Leaves

editing R&R: https://www.relegationbooks.com/journal/

https://southwestreview.com/volume-108-number-1/finder/

https://archwayeditions.us/three-poems-by-joseph-grantham/
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Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social · Aug 15
three poems up at archway editions today https://archwayeditions.us/three-poems-by-joseph-grantham/
Three Poems by Joseph Grantham - Archway Editions
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““Do you grow up as I walk away,
Or fade out into another world?
I don’t recall you saying much about it.”

Read three new poems by Michael Wolfe on R&R:

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Three Poems
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January 30, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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“I want to cry and sneeze at the same time I'm weird but without motives.”

Read four new poems by John Coletti on R&R:

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Four Poems
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January 27, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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“The first thing she hears in the morning (the sound that always wakes her up) is the typewriter in her husband’s study. But when she opens her eyes she sees him sleeping next to her.”

Read new stories by Ariel Magnus, trans. from the Spanish by Kit Maude:

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Seven Stories
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January 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨

Leaving 2025 in the dust is our inspo tbh 🌪️

Shot by John Thatcher

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January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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“That food bank was once a petrol station, which was once a field where my sister looked after a horse. Mostly she just brushed it and blew softly into its nose. Some horses like that.”

Read seven new poems by James Brown:

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Seven Poems
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January 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Thrilled to have four new poems up on R&R, a really beautiful online literary journal!

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Four Poems
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January 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Kickin’ off 2K26 w/ some HEAT 🔥

Peep our winter season TOC & pray for us sinners 🙏

feat: @coryoldweiler.bsky.social @meganabbott.bsky.social @josephgrantham.bsky.social @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @tylerdunston.bsky.social & more…

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January 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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“Do you like the way I have divided
this poem into six-line stanzas,
to give it more gravitas? Serious
poets divide their poems into
stanzas.”

Read four new poems by Stuart Ross (@razovsky.bsky.social) on R&R:

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Four Poems
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January 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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“I liked the sound the school copier made. Sometimes when I needed to clear my head, I made blank copies or copies with a single word—‘apple’ maybe, or ‘petroleum.’”

Read new fiction by Dalton Monk on R&R:

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Mr. Mayor
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December 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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“You love poetry and baseball--are they like one another?

They both get you used to something--and then comes a surprise. You love it.”

Read three new poems by Canada’s first Poet Laureate, George Bowering:

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Three Poems
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December 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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“Someone cleared their throat. I looked southwest toward the promise of a never-ending day, then we all grimaced up at the sky that now seemed to be pressing down on us like the stubborn lid of some overfilled thing.”

Read new fiction by Corey Lof on R&R:

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A Robbery
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December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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ICYMI— five new poems of mine are up over at @rnrmagazine.bsky.social!
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Five Poems
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December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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“sitting among the old men
each singular at his own table
separated by empty chairs
unwrapping Burger King Whoppers
my Burger is Impossible”

Read four new poems by Bob Rosenthal:

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Four Poems
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December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Five poems up today via R&R.
Many thanks to the brilliant editor, @josephgrantham.bsky.social!
rnrmagazine.bsky.social R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Dec 5
“Tree tips are silvery pricking
clouds with flat bottoms.
I'm all cut up by the blinds
and by the sconce light.
There is a dog on the baseball field.”

Read five new poems by Ty Holter:

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Five Poems
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December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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“Tree tips are silvery pricking
clouds with flat bottoms.
I'm all cut up by the blinds
and by the sconce light.
There is a dog on the baseball field.”

Read five new poems by Ty Holter:

www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
Five Poems
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December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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“And you would laugh. And I would die laughing with you. And I would call you a dufus for laughing at me. But only in my head. And only if dead people have thoughts.”

Read two new stories by Ellie Goins:

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Two Stories
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December 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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“I wear an earring. My hair is long. I don’t smoke, drink, or watch TV. I got a dog and a growth starting up on the side of my head but that’s about it.“

Read new fiction by Sam Anderson on R&R:

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Paper Tigers
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November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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“A very fortunate thing happened to me this summer. What it is, I can’t say yet—I’m writing as if it has already occurred, but the truth is it hasn’t.”

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Summer Vacation
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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“People need to think twice before they

Start throwing good money at bonehead

Schemes aimed at bringing American

Professional sports to foreign countries

I know I speak from experience”

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Four Poems
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November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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“He dreamed that a bird alighted at his window and told him:

‘There’s a treasure awaiting you in the city of the five cypresses.’”

Read new fiction by Marina Colasanti, translated from the Portuguese by Adria Frizzi:

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Five Cypresses, Times Two
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November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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“She took him on a walk early every morning. Leg protested at first, but he was able to forget himself for long stretches of the trail. Knee made a fuss. He was stiff. He didn’t seem willing to hold the rest of Leg up.”

Read new fiction by Sherril Jaffe:

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Leg Spoke
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November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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i had forgotten about R&R after i ditched twitter and for whatever reason, just remembered it again and went digging through some of the recent stuff. really enjoy these 3 shorties from gabe jimenez-ekman!
rnrmagazine.bsky.social R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · Oct 14
“I never felt anything. I had a hard time in high school, got bullied a lot. Dropped out of college after one semester. Then I started as a clerk at the grocery store.”

Read three new stories by Gabe Jimenez-Ekman:

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Three Stories
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October 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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““I thought it might be a good day to make spaghetti sauce. I’d made spaghetti sauce before. But this time, I decided, it was going to be different.”

Read new fiction by Ken Sparling on R&R:

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Hi, I'm Carl From Upstairs
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October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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“It feels wrong to move away from this place
Listening to this music,
Sitting in the car, about to pull away

The leaves in the distance, all around,
Don’t want you to leave yet
And so you stay and listen”

Read four new poems by Vincent Katz on R&R:

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Four Poems
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October 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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“He drinks so slow I don’t know whether to feel put on or just alcoholic. He spits talking and my face is in the way so what’s the dignified response.”

Read two new stories by Selen Ozturk:

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Two Stories
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October 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM