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Ode to the loghmeh

50, New Poetry by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad

Not quite a morsel or a nugget,
not a hint or a nibble or slice or shred,
not a scrap or a snack or a grain or a crumb,
not even a hunk or a chunk or a taste or …

Testing a Pattern / Replicas / Swim, Swam, Swum

50, New Poetry by Jenny Sadre-Orafai

Testing a Pattern

I’ve watched someone who needed air
pitch a loose fist through her own window.
It was the second time I watched her die.

My mouth is a window open.

I hang heavy toile curtains—a scene
of a
…

The Blue Sky

50, New Poetry by Leila Seyedzadeh

The sky is not blue in all places

There are mountains, there are trees

There are no mountains, there are trees

Yet the sky here is higher

The shadows follow me

The outlines around the objects

My imagination of the …

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Call for Submissions

Call for submissions for issue #51, as well as our poetry and micro essay contests. Learn more and submit your work here.

New Orleans Review is delighted to announce the publication of its first book, Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
(Bloomsbury 2019).

Visit the Digital Archive of NOR Print Issues, 1968-2019

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