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By Witness Magazine
Poetry•Vol. 33 No. 3

by Mike White

We are all
waiting 

in your waiting
room

where the watchful fish
are never

and the good green plant
is never

where the magazines only
are called 

People

 

 

 


Mike White is the author of the collections How to Make a Bird with Two Hands (Word Works, 2012) and Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017). His work has appeared previously in Witness, and in other journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, Rattle, The Threepenny Review, and The Yale Review. He lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah.

 

Witness blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to his or her times. Launched in Detroit in 1987, the magazine is best known for showcasing work that defines its historical moment; special issues have focused on political oppression, religion, the natural world, crime, aging, civil rights, love, ethnic America, and exile. The issues “New Nature Writing,” “The Sixties,” “Sports in America,” and “The Best of Witness, 1987 – 2004” eventually appeared as university press anthologies. In 2007, Witness moved to Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The magazine publishes one print issue and one online issue a year, and increasingly seeks out work that contextualizes the American experience by highlighting issues of global concern.

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