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​Stephen Kuusisto
Staff, Acknowledgements, Gratitude
Stephen Kuusisto​
Tohm Bakelas
wayward bastards of a dying america
Year-End Review
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Blacking Out
The Scent of Parkinson’s
Platypus
The Operation Electric
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Omens
To a Spineless Republican Congress
At 54
A Story About Life and Death and Everything Else
Apologies
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Translated by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Kuo Zhang
On Shaanxi Road, I Remember A Storm and A Man
How Slow the Change of Heart
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Sunrise, Winter
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Honoring the Wise Man
Traces
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Unwanted
Early Spring
Discover
The Feral Moment
Poem in Which I Acquire My Real Estate License Instead of My Poetic License
Poem in Which I Answer Your Survey Question: 'What Can We Do Better Next Time?'
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Mer
Breviary for the Late Hours
Gone Under
The Spot Where Trotsky Died
Taking up the Cause of Solitude
The Grimsnes Trees
Star Jasmine
Jack in the Pulpit
Thirteen m&y tire
You Come Here Often?
Song of the Forecaster
Song of the Misadventurer
Reasons
Elegy for the End of Days
To Remember the Wanting
Thoughts on the Textual Attributes of Weather
Thoughts on the Bliss of Good Jazz and the Pain of Grass
Boy in Piazza San Marco
Youth is Wasted
In the Absence of Faith, Something Like Faith
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What Is It About Poetry?
November 6, 2024
Heirloom
Scatterbrain
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White Space
Cento for David Simpson
After the Doctor Calls with Results from My Kid’s X-Ray, I Make Minestrone
She misses walking
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North on the Overseas Highway
Saddlebunch Keys
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6.
Once, in a Small Patch of Sky
Cape Erimo
Sun in Capricorn Opposes Mars Retrograde in Cancer
Lymphatic Zodiac
The father and the owls
Guardians
Advice is Insomnia
My Brother Skirts the Grim Reaper, October 31, 2010
Poem for Vallejo
Permanent Damage
All Good Here I Say Tucking My Disability Under My Arm
Crip Poet at the Door of the Restaurant
A Footpath
Lines of Credit
by David Weiss
Another Psalm by Bill Schulz: An Appreciation
by Mike Bove
NINE MILE MAGAZINE
Publisher: Nine Mile Art Corp.
Editors: Stephen Kuusisto, Andrea Scarpino, and David Weiss
Founding Editor: Bob Herz
Managing Editor: Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri
Cover Art by Sophie Vaillant Donatelli.
Sophie lives and paints in Sloatsburg, New York and Collobrières, France. Her work has shown most recently at Atelier Agosta, Collobrières, France, 2022-3; Langstein Gallery, Nyack, New York, 2024; and Blue Hill Arts Center, Pearl River, New York, 2023-5.
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Publication of this magazine has been made possible with support from the Propel Foundation and the Poetry Foundation. The publishers also acknowledge support from the following entities: the New York State Council on the Arts, the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and the County of Onondaga and CNY Arts through the Tier Three Project Support Grant Program.
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Nine Mile Magazine is an imprint of Nine Mile Art Corp.
This publication would not have been possible without the generous support of these groups.
We are very grateful to them all.
Poetry and artwork copyright of their respective authors and artists. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any technology or format without prior written permission from its owner.
