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Getting It Write

December 26, 2014/in Blog / Heather Hewson

Since I was young I have always imagined myself a writer. I have journals that date back to third grade. I have copies of my stories published in the elementary school paper. I wrote my first novel when I was 10. I have pages upon pages of loose-leaf papers covered with poems or stories in […]

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“The Journey” Into the New Year

December 19, 2014/in Blog / Eva Shantharam

As I write this blog post, I’m sitting, tired, in front of my laptop, thinking about residency and how soon it will be coming to an end—just in time for Christmas and the New Year. Reflecting back on this year with its ups and downs, I cannot help but feel a sense of blessing to […]

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From Where We Stand

December 12, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

Last night over dinner, after a discussion with our ninth-grader about some challenges she’s grappling with in her personal life, our fifth-grader suddenly asked, “What’s your super power?” I glanced over to her smiling, mischievous face. One of our fifth-grader’s own super powers is the ability to bring levity to difficult moments.  She flipped open […]

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Little Street for Sex

December 9, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Olja Savičević Ivančević, translated from the Croatian by Andrea Jurjević

LITTLE STREET FOR SEX I live in the shopping center of the world, it’s open 24 hours. There are, for example, streets for luminous bodies, and there’s no end to the lights, lace lampshades, chandeliers, bulbs of every breed; then a street of screws and nuts, and an endless line of fish restaurants, a side […]

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Records of Rage

December 6, 2014/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2015 / Three Thai poems of political protest translated by Noh Anothai

Over the winter of 2014, as Arctic air plunged the American Midwest into its cruelest winter in decades, my mother and I—both Thai immigrants—watched as our homeland’s political troubles reached a new low. In November of the previous year, thousands of civilians started occupying Bangkok’s streets in order to protest the government of then-prime minister […]

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The Child Who Had No Wings

December 6, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Paloma Díaz-Mas, translated from the Spanish by Lilit Thwaites

“Once upon a time, many moons ago, people didn’t have wings.” All the stories my mother used to tell me when I was a child started like that: harking back to an ancient and perhaps mythical time when people had not yet acquired the ability to fly. I used to love listening to those stories, […]

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New York Kaleidoscope

December 6, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Valentine Goby, translated from the French by Christine Buckley

(excerpts from the essay collection Petit éloge des grandes villes (Small Praise for Big Cities), © Gallimard 2007) From JFK airport, Queens; the middle of an October night Rain lacerates the taxi windows. Between two sudden downpours, water runs in rivulets, blurs my view already dulled by sleep. It’s 9 p.m. (3 a.m., Paris time). Car headlights set […]

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Five Poems

December 5, 2014/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Maxim Amelin, translated from the Russian by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher

Aesop’s Language The language of Aesop eludes me, and it’s too late to be taught a new tongue; whether they’re villains, reprobates, or robbers, I’m used to calling the powers that be—with no provisos, no thought for rank or title—by their actual names. I won’t thin complicity among the many, or inflate an individual shame. […]

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Among the Trobairitz

December 5, 2014/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Bieiris de Romans, translated from the Occitan by Samantha Pious

Lady Maria, +++++++++++ivalue and valiance, joy and beauty and intelligence, +++++ihonor, worth, and hospitality, noble speech and pleasing company, fine, sweet face and merry countenance, +++++igentle gaze and loving glance— all these, in you, and not the trickster’s art, they draw me toward you with an honest heart. I pray you, if it please you, […]

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From the Diary of Madame Mao

December 5, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Maria Teresa Ogliastri, translated from the Spanish by Yvette Neisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher

Just Following Orders With its forelegs a mantis pins down its prey there are circumstances just following orders a strip of rabbit fur by the incense burner releases the wood’s fragrance how can I warm the hearth when all the cranes fly over to the north without stopping to drink water   If You Raise […]

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Express Yourself

December 4, 2014/in Blog / Andrea Tate

I gave a girl goose bumps today. She was blow-drying my hair, and she asked me what I did for a living. When I told her I teach memoir, personal essay, and blogging courses, she shivered. “I am very sensitive, and I have felt like I need to write down my feelings and tell my […]

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Antecedentia

December 4, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Niels Fredrik Dahl, translated from the Norwegian by Karen Havelin

Page 17 Don’t let me leave with little Jamie Bulger, he’s so puny and so scared. Don’t let me let go of little Jamie Bulger, he screams for his mum and wants to go home. On the guard’s monitor we are small jointed dolls in grainy black and white. Two thwarted explorers. Two embalmed children. […]

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Blas Falconer, Poet

December 4, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2015 / Interviewed by Rochelle Newman

Blas Falconer is the author of The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books, 2012); A Question of Gravity and Light (The University of Arizona Press, 2007); and The Perfect Hour (Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press, 2006). He is also a co-editor for The Other [email protected]: Writing Against a Singular Identity (The University of Arizona Press, 2011) and Mentor & Muse:  […]

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Antonia Crane, Author of Spent

December 3, 2014/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2015 / Book review and author interview by Rachael Warecki

Antonia Crane’s Spent is a memoir for readers who enjoy gritty, surreal narratives and stories that eschew easy conclusions. In Crane’s world, vicious cycles can’t be broken, self-reflection doesn’t lead to happiness, and lessons aren’t always learned. There’s a weariness to Spent that emphasizes the title, an undercurrent of longing for a job that doesn’t […]

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Janet Fitch, Author

December 3, 2014/in Interviews, Winter-Spring 2015 / Interviewed by Tai Farnsworth

Janet Fitch is a long-time lover of history and Russia. During a student exchange in England, Fitch realized she wanted to be a writer. She published her first book, Kicks, in 1996. After her second book, White Oleander, made the Oprah Book Club, she was swept up in a whirlwind of critical acclaim. In 2002, […]

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Dana Gioia, Poet

December 2, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2015 / Interviewed by Michael Passafiume

I don’t know how long I’ve been staring at this blank page, fingers poised over the laptop’s keyboard. But it feels like a long time. A very long time. And my thoughts are all over the map; I see them as an army of impossibly tiny steer running in every direction and there’s me without […]

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Jill Marr, Literary Agent

December 1, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2015 / Interviewed by David Bumpus

Jill Marr is an agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. She graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and a minor in History. She has a strong Internet and media background and nearly 15 years of publishing experience. After writing ad copy and features for published […]

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Three Poems

November 30, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Françoise Roy, translated from the Spanish by Amanda Fuller

Navigating wind in the chest I walked the path between two solstices with a swarm of angels a flock of insects, miniature jaguars and the rattle of day still reverberating. Those seminal forces luring me to the honeycomb where the hummingbird and winter cicada whirred. Navigating toward high seas dad and mom are two coasts […]

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Anne Ursu, Author

November 30, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2015 / Interviewed by Lisa Trahan

I recently spoke with Anne Ursu, who has written both adult and young adult novels. She lives in Minneapolis and teaches at Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children, which is a low-residency program. Ursu is the author of five middle grade fantasies as well as two novels for adults. Her most recent book, The […]

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No Voy a Forget

November 29, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Chelsea Risley

No Voy a Forget Mi amor, espero que Yo recuerde the way You sound with three Buttons undone, tu voz Baja, cariñosa. Will I remember the feel De tu nombre the first time I wrapped my lips around it? When I made the exception To my rule that yo sólo Me casaría con un hombre […]

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Coiffure / Hair-do, Deficit Spending, Pouf Tossed Salad

November 29, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Coco Owen

Coiffure / Hair-do The beautiful American word hair-do lacks the élan of the French word coiffure. Hair-do is flat-footed & matter-of-fact. It does what it says it does; Americans adore that. I could run hairstylist up the flagpole as a word to salute—that’s as Cadillac as our idiom gets. But Cadillac looks suspiciously French—about as […]

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Papeles / Papers

November 29, 2014/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2015 / by mariana mcdonald

Papeles No tengo papeles. Así, tengo papeles— En el carro en la silla. En la casa en la mesa En el cuarto en la cama. Papeles de la corte, Papeles del avogado, Papeles del estado, Papeles de la migra. Papeles que me notan, Papeles que me representan, Papeles que me llaman y Papeles que me […]

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My Goal on the Page

November 28, 2014/in Blog / Arielle Silver

This week’s post is by poet and guest blogger Adrian Ernesto Cepeda. Although some might disagree, in my mind, sports and poetry are synonymous. There was nothing like Magic Johnson making a behind-the-back bounce pass during the heyday of Lakers ‘Showtime’ or seeing David Beckham perfectly bend a free kick into a goal. As a writer, I […]

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Weird Gelatinous Things

November 26, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Migueltzinta Solis

Baby, let’s not go to the place where you and your other lover go. That place is ugly. Let me take you to the reservoir instead. We’ll go in the middle of the week, in the middle of a drought, the worst one in decades. When we get there we will be alone. The water […]

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How He Leaves You

November 26, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Ankita Rao

This is how he leaves you. Door pulled quietly closed, last glimpse of a weathered leather bag and brown hair matted to the back of his head. You sit on the couch in a pair of running shorts—knees up, legs crossed, heels tucked underneath you. He doesn’t look back. That night you drink orange juice […]

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I call the suicide hotline

November 26, 2014/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Mary Stone

The man on the other line calls me doll speaks in exclamations: don’t do it you crazy fool! Someone loves you out there! I’ve spilled a beer on my lap and sit in wet jeans with a blanket at my feet. Outside it’s like I always imagined it would be – a dark and dreamy […]

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Weighing the Rain: Archival Pigment Prints

November 26, 2014/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Hans Gindlesberger
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I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Leave

November 26, 2014/in Winter-Spring 2015, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Jasmine Evans

My therapist says it’s normal for people to touch themselves. Ew, not like that. I mean, not sexually. She says it’s not weird, and that feels like the permission slip I need to do it whenever I can. I touch my knobby knees. I never feel like they point in the right direction. I poke […]

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The Walls Are Too Blank, The Holes Are Too Deep

November 25, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Joe Baumann

As my father did with me and Tobias, I took my family camping. When I told Roberta that it was time to prepare to lose one of our sons, she walked into our bedroom and packed. Her eyes were pooled with tears, but she didn’t cry. “Roberta,” I said, shutting the door behind me. “Please […]

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The Water Understands

November 25, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Ean Bevel

My eyes adjusted to the Monday morning light peeking through our bedroom curtains and I looked at Jen, my wife, who stood by the side of the bed, the goddess of patience. My checklist started as I prepared to meet my son, our firstborn. Pre-packed bags of baby supplies: already in the car. Car seat: […]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

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Where Are You From?

August 5, 2022/in Blog / Majella Pinto
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The Old Folks’ Home

July 22, 2022/in Blog / Karen Gaul Schulman
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Peace, Love, and a lot of Loud Rock & Roll

June 17, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Sunee Lyn Foley
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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

QVC-land

May 6, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / D. E. Hardy
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Escape Artists at the End of the World

April 29, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Lisa Levy
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The House in the Middle

April 15, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

My Mother’s Hands

August 8, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Annie Marhefka
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Defy Gravity

August 1, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Megan Peck
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Little Shrimp

July 25, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Karen Poppy
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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Word From the Editor

The variety in this issue speaks not only to the eclectic world we inhabit but to the power of the human spirit. We live in an uncertain world. In the U.S., we’re seeing mass shootings daily. Across the world, we’re still very much in a pandemic, some being trapped in their homes for weeks on end, others struggling to stay alive in hospitals. War continues to wage in Ukraine. Iran and North Korea are working diligently to make nuclear weapons. The list goes on. Still, we have artists who are willing and able to be vulnerable with one another, to share stories and art to help us try and make sense of our world.

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