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  • A sepia photo of a white man with white hair, a goatee, and wire-frame glasses. He wears a suit and tie and is smiling at the camera.

    Mr. Snuggles goes to the Zoo

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    Jane Clayton and her dog, Mr. Snuggles, decide to have a great adventure together after they both receive the same diagnosis.

  • Constant Reminder

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    In his prose poem, survivor Phil Scearce writes about what it’s like to live after recovering from cancer.

  • A white man with shoulder-length white hair and a white beard.

    True Enough

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    “Her dying happened in slow motion, like in a/dream you know is a dream but you/can’t wake up from.”

  • A white man with shoulder-length white hair and a white beard.

    On Deck

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    Alan Abrams writes about grief, love, and baseball in his latest poem for Knee Brace Press.

  • A white man with shoulder-length white hair and a white beard.

    For Rief

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    In this poem about grief and death, poet Alan Abrams tells us what it’s like to watch a friend fade away, knowing you could be next.

  • A black and white photo of a white man in a button-up flannel smiling at the camera. He is sitting outside on a bench. His hair is dark and shoulder-length and he has a short beard.

    Tangerine Strands

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    “And outside of this customary exchange, outside of this playground within a playground, Lucretia felt relief, for the little girl and boy had yet again successfully avoided recreating the history that had taken place there.”

  • Resection

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    As a stage IV cancer patient, Pacific Northwestern poet Lara Haynes Freed learned of a new metastasis. Her poem Resection chronicles her experience with her diagnosis. Freed holds an MA in linguistics from the University of Kansas and has been published in multiple literary magazines.