Poetry
Abies lasiocarpa (bifolia) PINE FAMILY H 90’; D 18”. Tree with spire-shaped crown; Wait, matted shrub above tree line.
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I. The tongue, and salt, and onion, leek, celery, carrot and a tub of tomato paste all go into the biground enamel
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Ashley Dailey (she/her) is a writer and multimedia artist from Sargent, Georgia. She mostly writes about family and the cultural legacies of
Read Morefor thirty- seven minutes i watched the day break blue across steelyards yesteryear forgot while recounting the names of my ex-girlfriend’s siblings.
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will you understand my heartsif i write1’s & 0’si do not know what you look like,but i wash my face in the
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The first time I saw a needle, it wasplaced innocently on a nightstand as if itwas a tube of chapstick. I had
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this essay was first published in THE DEAD ARE GODS (Melville House, 2023) I am not really a believer. I suppose the
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I sit on the rough cement steps of a country convenience store, keeping an eye on Mom. She’s been on the phone
Read MoreWhat are your plans for Mother’s Day? Your question tightens my belly, squeezes my chest, constricts my throat. Your question leaves me
Read MoreWe’re slicing through the Sonoran Desert on Highway 286 in a water supply truck operated by Humane Borders. Faint yellow light rises
Read MoreExisting. That was what the weeks after the funeral felt like—a string of continual stresses from the mountain of immediate family responsibilities,
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They call you Bella. It’s the name you chose from the film Belladonna of Sadness. At the strip club, where you can
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1. Free Audiobook I got one free audiobook for downloading the app, so I downloaded Middlemarch, which is 35 hours and 38
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Alice was the first of us to fade away. The first signs began when winter dawned. Early, before the sun rose, the
Read MoreRule #1: The venue sets the tone for everything that happens next. The Sugar Factory on Ocean Drive has become the rendezvous
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Nobody expected butterflies. Dense flocks appeared along the Atlantic Seaboard that August, radial bands stretching from Cape Canaveral to Mount Desert Island.
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Night Six, my mother invites me to help with dinner. From the fridge she pulls tofu and scallops and shrimp without tails.
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Placenta, you scared me. There you were, bulging and bright, right in front of me under the stare of the cold hospital
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The Arrest, in all its surreal narrative trappings, supercars, and Hollywood theatrics, wants to know if words can save us in a
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Speaking to the The Guardian as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 (a prize he later won), Hungarian writer
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By Abby Dockter I am on another plane trip. Patchwork farms, webs of highways, wide rivers and furry green mountains, all pierced
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Animal Collection – I grasp for words to describe it. It is modern. It is postmodern. It is fables. It is magical
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The beginning of Anthropologies feels like something you’ve remembered before—a frail mother recounts stories for a middle-aged daughter. But then, the daughter
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Jon Riccio interviews Samuel Rafael Barber about his new book, Thousands of Shredded Scraps of Paper Located Across Five Landfills, That if
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Jon Riccio interviews Robert Carr about his new book, The Unbuttoned Eye.
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"I feel that one of my missions in life is to chip away at the idea of human exceptionalism, the idea that
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Venita Blackburn, author of the short story collection Black Jesus and Other Superheroes (her 2017 debut, published as a result of her
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CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New
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What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m drawn to forms animated by
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