recent writing
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Nosegay on a Marble Plinth
“She was looking at me and I wanted to cry again because I didn’t know what she was, but I felt the warmth of her, and it was different than heat.” A series of visits from her dead mother stirs up a woman’s long-buried feelings and memories in Elizabeth Bull’s story.
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Hart
“’Are you crazy?’ Zhanna punched him in the shoulder. She was giving off a pungent wave of animal, earth, and rot.” In Sophia Andrukhovych’s “Hart,” translated by Ali Kinsella, you will share the transformative encounter of a woman, a man, and a hart in an imagined future Ukraine.
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This Must Be the Place
Buying a Halloween costume, snowmobiling to school, making out after field hockey: Eli Karren’s “This Must Be the Place” careens through a landscape of memories that are equal parts joyful and embarrassing. These comic couplets prove—once and for all—that Tony Soprano was wrong about the lowest form of conversation.
from the archive
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An Arsenal of Sand
“Anger in our family was like the water: it had to go somewhere. Rise up, sink down, or burst everywhere at once.” An excerpt from Angela Palm’s Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here.
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Amy Jorgensen: an Interview
Amy Jorgensen talks with Debra Klomp Ching about Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue.
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The Cats of Old San Juan
“The cats are here because of the rats. / The rats are here because of the Americans. / The Americans were here because of the Spanish. / The Spanish were here because fuck the Spanish.” Combining the force of logic with bitter irony and sharp humor, a new poem from David M. de León tracks the confusions of Puerto Rico’s colonial past and present.