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I. VOLUME FOURTH

{isacoustic*} volume fourth is currently being finished, and will be available July 2nd. All submissions from this point forward will appear in volume fifth.

Please take a moment to check out the work of the contributors appearing in volume fourth:

Marjorie Thomsen
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/04/person-marjorie-thomsen-two-poems/

Robert Knox
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/04/person-robert-knox-two-poems/

Robyn Brooks
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/04/person-robyn-brooks-four-poems/

G.B. Ryan
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/06/person-g-b-ryan-one-poem/

Lana Bella
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/06/person-lana-bella-two-poems/

stephanie roberts
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/08/person-stephanie-roberts-two-poems/

Asante Keron Hamid
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/09/person-asante-keron-hamid-three-poems/

M. Carmen Lane
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/09/person-m-carmen-lane-three-poems/

Lee Nash
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/10/person-lee-nash-two-poems/

Arushi Singh
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/10/person-arushi-singh-one-poem/

Devon Balwit
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/11/person-devon-balwit-three-poems/

Grace Marie Grafton
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/12/person-grace-marie-grafton-two-poems/

Holly Lyn Walrath
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/14/person-holly-lyn-walrath-one-poem/

Chris Shorne
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/14/person-chris-shorne-two-poems/

Clara Burghelea
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/15/person-clara-burghelea-one-poem/

Lydia Renfro
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/16/person-lydia-renfro-two-poems/

Michelle Bermudez
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/18/person-michelle-bermudez-two-poems/

Laura Del Col Brown
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/23/person-laura-del-col-brown-three-poems/

Jenny Sadre-Orafai
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/25/person-jenny-sadre-orafai-three-poems/

Susannah Nevison and Molly McCully Brown
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/28/persons-susannah-nevison-molly-mccully-brown-poem/

Rus Khomutoff
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/30/person-rus-khomutoff-three-poems/

Stephanie L. Harper
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/02/person-stephanie-l-harper-two-poems/

Rita Anderson
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/04/person-rita-anderson-two-poems/

Rosemarie Dombrowski
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/07/person-rosemarie-dombrowski-six-poems/

Rebecca Ruth Gould
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/07/person-rebecca-ruth-gould-three-poems/

Margarita Serafimova
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/08/person-margarita-serafimova-seven-poems/

Nicole Melchionda
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/10/person-nicole-melchionda-four-poems/

Lauren Brazeal
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/14/person-lauren-brazeal-one-poem/

Chella Courington
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/16/person-chella-courington-two-poems/

Natalie Mulford
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/21/person-natalie-mulford-two-poems/

Carl Boon
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/23/person-carl-boon-five-poems/

Barbara Fant

Silver Road
essays, maps & calligraphies
Kazim Ali
Tupelo Press, 2018

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‘my hunger hungry to tell me’ – {from} Search Me

I have told myself repeatedly, in context, that the brain is there to recount for the body how form was ripped from non-existence. I know to know wrongly. This Silver Road, by Kazim Ali…I’m not sure it’s real. By which I mean one can be drawn to a thing that leads to its own unprovable arrival. By which I mean I’m not sure it happened. I have been trying to write about it for weeks. I won’t say words failed me, but will say I have been worried the words will know how I’ve responded. Silver Road is spotless. Is deeply marked. I scrawled, or thought to my others, throughout:

weather the self

mother more creatively

death is an environmentalist

page 84, the poem ‘Theft’…

I’m sorry you had to see that.  your college.  your healthcare.  your body and your spirit.  but, I am not sorry you were here to see it.  not sorry you’ll remain.  we’ve always gone without.  now, we share that without with absence.  be kind, but keep count.  this is not the fault of one.