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Ray Crest, 2018, Sculpture, Pinewood, Willow, H 55” x W-40” x D- 35”

Spotlight: archiTERRA

June 18, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Marcia Wolfson Ray

“The map is not the territory”-Alfred Korzbyski This quote reveals the physical motivation behind my involvement in creating sculpture. The source of my ideas comes from nature and nature also provides the materials for the pieces themselves. Willow, dog fennel, phragmites, hibiscus, pine bark, bamboo and marsh elder are examples […]

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Writers Read: Refuge: A Memoir by Ming Holden

June 4, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Kori Kessler

Ming Holden’s essay collection is an experiment. Equal parts essay, memoir, and poetry, with a dash of fiction, Refuge: A Memoir bends genre to immerse readers into the lives of the refugees and political exiles Holden has worked with throughout her life. From Syria to Kenya to China, Holden explores the circular, repetitive trauma that refugees […]

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Spotlight: Summer of Sola

May 28, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Marie Baleo

[fiction]  Your lips taste of dust and salt. Your baby hairs glisten, limp commas and parentheses. In the mirror, you examine your freckles. You avoid looking at your chest. You dip your foot in the water (too hot), force yourself to keep it in, smothering it with one hand. You sink deeper into the bath, […]

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À La Carte: Barack & Michelle Obama Gone Ghetto #1 and #2

May 21, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / henry 7. reneau, jr.

1. The City on the Hill haunted by all manner of gunshots & protest signs & constricted throats of umbrage. Pundit wolves gnawing at the ballet- slippered sheath of flesh-glazed bones: Poverty is a state of mind. The cloy of fear a cheap perfume-scented cover for panic wafting from corporate person-hoods of deceit & profit […]

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Spotlight: The End of Cursive / City With Two Exits / Downstream, My Older Brother Holds My Hand

May 14, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Lis Sanchez

The End of Cursive One day, fog rolls up from the pond’s dull mouth, skims our face, dissipates. The songbirds appear misplaced, greedy. How quickly the sparrows drop pathside to scratch for winged seeds lying golden among the goose turds. The fog’s unraveling strands are cursive, you say, scrawled in a vanishing ink. I recall […]

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À La Carte: Mukti (Freedom)

May 7, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

[fiction] Kamla has been through labor five times before in the past thirteen years, but the pain is still unforgiving, shaking and splitting her body. The village lady-doctor, Doctorni, fans Kamla’s face with a tattered punkah in the tiny two-room hospital in Bihar, India, and asks the tall nurse to boil some water. The nurse […]

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Spotlight: That Sweet Son of Mine

April 30, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Calder G. Lorenz

[fiction] My father is home. I find his jacket and his cane and his wool hat piled at the door. There is a melted snow path that leads into the house. It’s been a few days since I’ve seen him, but I feel a sense of happiness that he was able to take his morning […]

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À La Carte: On Buying My Mother a Mirror

April 23, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Jess Nieberg

it is three o’clock in the afternoon i am asleep when your principal calls the day has eaten its way through my eyelids you cannot know the little things when you call me i am asleep it is the only thing that stops the crying you cannot know the little things how easily i come […]

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Spotlight: Who is Auntie Jill?

April 16, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Gabriela Denise Frank

[creative nonfiction] “I ain’t got no food in the refrigerator,” Auntie Jill’s voice barks from my phone. As a kid, she terrified me—and still does, at forty-three. I reduce the volume to one bar. We are planning my stay with her in Detroit over Memorial Day. To friends, I’ve dubbed this sojourn a Guilt Trip, […]

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À La Carte: Pinson Valley

April 9, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Brandon Jordan Brown

Summer of the three-cylindered engine, weeks spent thumping the wheel to tinny songs with a revolver stashed in my trunk. Johnnie on Snake Hill, pouring gas on the armrests of an old recliner, setting it on fire, watching the polyester open like a sore. Off 280, river scum lapping over rocks, their gray faces stained […]

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Spotlight: Incantation for the God Gene

April 2, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Jen Karetnick

Cast away the coins closing your lids. Roll off the stones weighing your limbs. This is what we know: Every Good Book when in doubt is named again. We inherit the sins of our glossolalia, secreting the Divine like sex. The seat of the soul is in the genitals, the road to Mecca, Jerusalem, Damascus […]

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torrin a. greathouse

Litdish: torrin a. greathouse, Poet

March 26, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Interviewed by Adrian Ibarra

torrin a. greathouse (she/her or they/them pronouns) is a genderqueer trans woman & cripple-punk from Southern California. Her work is published or forthcoming in Bettering American Poetry, Muzzle, Redivider, BOAAT, Waxwing, The Offing, Frontier, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is the author of two chapbooks, Therǝ is a Case That I Ɐm(Damaged Goods, 2017) and boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018). […]

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Eloisa Guanlao, Noli Me Tangere (Stills), 2017-In Production , Digital Documentary Video

Spotlight: Noli Me Tangere

March 19, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Eloisa Guanlao

As an artist and ecologically-minded humanist, I am interested in performing history and historiography through visual means, giving careful consideration to the materials I use. I am currently working on Talk Story, a multifaceted long-term project, spanning four continents and five centuries of territorial expansion and human movement […]

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À La Carte: A People’s History

March 12, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Tom Lakin

[fiction] An overcast day in early November: wolf-gray sky, scraps of cloud pasted above the ragged skyline of the city. Here, half-reclined on a worn green corduroy couch, furred belly bare beneath a struggling hem and a thick braid of drool making a moat of his shirt collar, is Sam, freshly awakened in the living […]

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Spotlight: Education for Bastards / Congregations for Bastards / Auctions for Bastards

March 5, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Michele Leavitt

Education for Bastards Listen—you could be anyone. Other kids say they know their fathers, but marriage? That’s a knot made for plot twists. What’s better than Imagination? And her pedigree’s as full of holes as yours. She stretches across the unknown, she makes new stories, she flies through the galaxies and back. Her best friend […]

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À La Carte: Daddy’s Girl

February 26, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Cathy Luna

[creative nonfiction] Her father dies three times. The first time, in ‘69, she’s six, and her mother tells her, “They lost him; he’s missing.” But she knows they’ll find him, and he’ll find her, even after her mother packs a folded-over mattress and her three daughters in the back seat of her white VW bug […]

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Doren Damico

Spotlight: Inheriting Post-it Notes

February 19, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Doren Damico

[poetry] I June 25, 2013 i’m in Mom’s office helping her pack for her new home the last home where she’s going home to die I want you to have this she says handing me a yellow post-it it’s a quote that she wrote “In the end it’s not the years in your life that […]

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Writers Read: The Torturer’s Wife by Thomas Glave

February 12, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Melissa Benton Barker

This collection of short stories never shies away from the human potential for life-destroying darkness. Stories such as “Between,” “The Torturer’s Wife,” “Invasion: Evening: Two,” “Woman Impossible Task,” “He Who Would have Become ‘Joshua’ 1791,” and “Out There” confront the evils of war, political torture, slavery, and violence perpetrated against the gay community. Glave insists […]

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Nneka Osueke, Speak Softly, But Carry A Big Stick, 2017, acrylic, activated charcoal paint, homemade activated charcoal, genuine 24k gold on canvas, 30x26in / 76.2x66.04 cm

Spotlight: Into the Fifth

February 5, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Nneka Osueke

Into The Fifth speaks to the force of a paradigm shift, as I experience the world transitioning from one dimension to the next. During the creative process, I experimented with sculpture, photography, homemade activated charcoal paint, ceramics, 24k gold, and collage, allowing my creative process to flow through me, without or without thought. In each painting […]

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Litdish: Gayle Brandeis, Author

January 29, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Interviewed by Kori Kessler

Welcome to our new Amuse-Bouche occasional series, Litdish. This is a solicited series of interviews with writers and artists in conversation with our staff about literature, art, social justice, and community activism. Please enjoy. ~The Editors   Gayle Brandeis is a poet, writer, and activist. She is the author of the poetry collections The Selfless Bliss of […]

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À La Carte: Colors for the Diaspora

January 26, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Zeina Azzam

Blue-green watery globe tugging to a red core we are a distant comet, white cloud of unburnished rocks, frisking the heavens for an arc to earth, sea, home. Green-brown Palestine, cactus fruit and wild thyme, olive orchards, cypress trees… we travel on your mountain tops tethered by voices from suitcases and the yaw of blackened […]

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Spotlight: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

January 22, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Steinunn G. Helgadóttir, translated by Larissa Kyzer

[translated fiction] It’s my weekend with my daughter. Vilhelmína is standing between us wearing a Batman T-shirt and a wool jacket, a red tulle skirt and new rubber boots. She’s also wearing a backpack that’s much too big for her scrawny back with a decorative little umbrella hanging off it, and I feel a tug […]

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Alysse Kathleen McCanna

Spotlight: Husband Ghazal / Reckoning

January 8, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Alysse Kathleen McCanna

[poetry] Husband Ghazal He who cuts the head from the chicken gets the heaping plate; he breaks a wing with a quick snap, slurps marrow, gravy dripping. He falls asleep without swinging. We sing. I am wrist-bound to static eternity—like Daphne, but a plastic houseplant. Don’t put your hair up he says as he slinks […]

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Writers Read: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

January 1, 2018/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2018 / Nikki San Pedro

If the title of his childhood memoir needs clarification, before launching into his story of what it was like to grow up at the end of apartheid in South Africa, Trevor Noah includes conditions of the Immorality Act, 1927: The act of “illicit carnal intercourse” between a [white] European with a [black] native “shall be […]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

How to Kill a Cat, or How to Prepare for CATastrophe

March 10, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

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Point Break & Top Gun Are More Than Homoerotic Action Movies

March 3, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Michaela Emerson
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Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

On Such a Full Sea Are We Now

March 17, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Jemma Leigh Roe
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The Russian Train

February 24, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Cammy Thomas
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Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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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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