Poetry
1. at cracked marrow of the double yellow line extraction crane buckles down bare fork
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each morning, spangling the loton sidewalks, at crosswalks, across
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Scratches in the celluloid / show a frame-rate / his mind shown / in the quick tilt of his head / as
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where you’re –so– worn out ⠀⠀⠀you won’t mind ⠀⠀⠀being wiped out; ⠀⠀⠀hell, you’ll even thank the tsunami for ⠀⠀⠀flicking you off ⠀⠀⠀the
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Flow for Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi On learning of your passingI’m shot back in timeto the discovery of your booksand concepts, to teachingmyself
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Less the candle-flame and more the light the flame emits across the coffered ceiling. I concede, we may never arrive where we
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Grasshoppers in the Virginia Foothills of Nevada are not your cute green cartoony hopper. They’re Hollywood monsters – true competitors of Mothra.
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i. There was a time. There is time, and it fools us. It really does toy. Like he put it, it is
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You never realize how little you know about death until someone dies and you’re left picking up the ashes. I mean that
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Here is what happened: On the eighth of August in the year 2010, a nineteen-year-old college student flips her car on the
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Sunlight illuminated our bare skin, the air briney. The dog whined at the door. Their body
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A Note on Nakedness: In my writing, bodies bend and fold; hands encircle hips, hold onto sheets; mouths make music or
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I didn’t stop to take the snapshot and now I can’t: the gas station’s mansard roof has been peeled off as part
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Rylan won’t change the lightbulb in the living room. She won’t sit down to read, watch a movie or play scrabble there,
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Honestly, there was nothing to see — just two women, mother-daughter-friends on a mid-summer day, tangled hands on summerhouse cushions, pinked apple blossoms
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It’s 1982. She’s a junior in college, an English major, spending the spring academic quarter studying art and literature in England. The
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I knew it was time to leave Florida when the sinkhole ate Buddy. I was sitting in a kiddie pool with the
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I know girls sometimes do witchcraft. I’m at a pizza parlor two blocks down from my job. This is where I meet
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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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