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Litdish: Ashley Lumpkin, Poet

January 12, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Molly Ashline

Ashley Lumpkin has been writing since she was seven. She is a poet and started doing slam poetry performance in 2010. She has four poetry collections and a new creative nonfiction collection called I Hate You All Equally […]

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Daphna Steinberg, Driveway, McLean, Virginia , 2018, digital photographic print, 10” x 15”

La Belle Fleur Sauvage

December 16, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Dafna Steinberg

My work has spanned a variety of mediums, including photography, video, collage, installation, and performance. Generally, I work with themes that relate to the experiences of women and the fragmentation of the female body.

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Building the Backyard House with Abuelo

December 9, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Moncho Alvarado

The mix in his hands, our skin
covered with clay, horse dung,
hay, and water, his hands […]

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Litdish: Emily Faith Grodin, Writer

November 25, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Interviewed by Amanda Lopez

Emily Faith Grodin is an intelligent, passionate twenty-seven-year-old with autism, which impedes her ability to communicate verbally. Instead, she communicates through writing, creating powerful, moving poems and stories that welcome readers into her world […]

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Spotlight: Deaf Rich Boy ‘79 / Earmold / Voice from the Sea

November 18, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Raymond Luczak

i would one day be the son of that rich man
with a monocle found in the game of monopoly
id own the entire town beyond pamida
i wouldnt think twice about buying
a pair of expensive designer jeans at the down under shop […]

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Daniel Kern, Untitled 5, 2018, Graphite and Collage on Paper, 9 x 12

Spotlight: Penumbral Transmissions

November 11, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Daniel Kern

This group of pieces was completed over the course of a few months where I had been making notes from dreams and meditations with a great focus on feelings of loss and isolation. All of these are visual manifestations of what I can only describe in a few words as a feeling of howling silence. […]

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Spotlight: Before the Arab Spring

November 4, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Patience Mackarness

A change of lesson plan becomes necessary. Ella has handed
round photocopies of the horoscope pages from the Gulf News
(You will learn… You will meet someone… People with this
star sign are courageous…) in heavy silence. Finally, a thin
serious boy called Sami says, “Teacher, this isn’t true. Not from
Islam.” Others nod agreement. They do a multiple-choice
grammar quiz instead.

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Peaceful Protesters-International human rights day, 2012, watercolor on arches paper, 22” x 30”

Spotlight: Political Art and Paintings

October 28, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Dara Herman Zierlein

I am inspired to paint out of the need to tell a story or record a period of time others may choose not to recognize. My topics of interest are often personal, involving my role and struggles as a woman in American culture […]

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Spotlight: Hands & Mouth

October 21, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Sarah Cooper

I strike a match / to burn the
sage / bundle smoke circles /
in every room / of my silent
home…

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Deception of Memory, 10 x 16 Mixed Media, 2018

Spotlight: The Curious Mind

October 14, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Mikhail SK

I really like to poke people’s brains. From business, to family and friends, and even love
[especially love], the core foundation of all things boil down psychology, and the workings of
the brain. I think the human mind is a bizarre and peculiar place […]

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À La Carte: Saudades

October 7, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Emily Degn

I miss the jungle’s morning breath. I shall never grasp

I used to bathe in lush vines, the Peace that shelters those

and soak that sing with one set of Words.

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Spotlight: The Examination

September 30, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Nicole Callihana

Funny that you ask.
It feels like billions of nerve cells arranged in patterns to coordinate thought, emotion, behavior, movement, and sensation.
An egg frying in a frying pan.

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Litdish: Hilary Rubin Teeman, Executive Editor

September 23, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Interviewed by Sara Voigt

The bar is often whether I can put it down. I don’t mean put it down for an hour while I deal with something else, but, “Is this book in my head? Am I thinking about how it’s going to end? Do I want to go back to reading it to the exclusion of other things?” If the answer to these questions is “Yes!” it means the novel has hooked me, that I am feeling an authentic connection to it, that I can see myself working on it and championing it.

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Untitled, 2018, Acrylic and Ink on Paper, 18” x 30”

Spotlight: Abstract Painting

September 16, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Lydia Kinney

I am compelled by a clumsy and imperfect nature of painting, especially with a relationship to a more perfect, cold language of drawing. The precise and angular nature of many of the forms I work with lend themselves to a technical vernacular […]

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Á La Carte: Safe

September 9, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Melissa Goodnight

He reached over my legs to turn the heater up, then slowly brought his hand back, hovering above my knees. The tattoos on his four knuckles shown towards my mother and me. The words spelled F E A R. I looked away quickly. My mother fingered the door handle.

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Spotlight: The Circus

September 2, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Chelsea Asher

The last time I went to the circus
was also the first day
a boy fingered me behind
the stacks of old smelling innertubes
at the pool on the corner of Thirty-second.

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À La Carte: Deportation Fears

August 26, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Mario Duarte

follow me, like my shadow
under blinking streetlights
when I walk home at twilight
listening to “Immigration Man,” with my earbuds,
afraid for our people, their lives,

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Litdish: Adrian Ernesto Cepeda, Poet; Amy Shimshon-Santo, Poet; and Mireya S. Vela, Author

August 19, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Interviewed by Andrea Auten

Three successful Los Angeles-based writers have found a path toward community through shared passions and mutual respect. Poets Adrian Ernesto Cepeda and Amy Shimshon-Santo, along with nonfiction writer Mireya S. Vela, form a tightly bonded trio, challenging racial and cultural biases in their writing and beyond. […]

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Spotlight: Chemo-Brain / Motel 6

August 12, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Sharon Scholl

Your eyes go suddenly vacant,
mouth slack,
expression anxious.
You search,
search for a word …

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Writers Read: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

August 5, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Sona Gevorkian

That we are in the hands of a master storyteller who writes with a poet’s precision about fractious themes is clear. With a seer’s intuition, [Vuong] guides us into uncomfortable terrains of migration and displacement, violence and love, trauma and loss, poverty and addiction, the body and identity, queerness and masculinity.

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Tania Shvayuk, The Moonlight garden, 2018, Oil on Canvas, 54x40cm

Spotlight: Mom I’m Not a Transvestite, I Do Art

July 29, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Tania Shvayuk

I’m very interested in the inner worlds of other people—that’s the main reason why impressionistic portraiture is the basis of my artwork. I deny the stereotypes of appearance and gender and paint boys with makeup and earrings […]

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Spotlight: The Nopalera Speaks

July 22, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Allyson Jeffredo

[fiction] the grandma would cut nopales from her backyard nopalera. a tower of pencas. the long blade biting its way through the stem. but it was infected. white pimples growing on its shell. when i would pop them. they would release a wave of purple. staining the smooth penca with sin […]

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Litdish: Ashaki Jackson, Poet

July 15, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Interviewed by Amanda Lopez

There is no lifestyle; there are rules that you set for yourself. Be reasonable with those expectations and know who is setting them. Keep reviewing those expectations, especially the ones you’ve set for yourself, to make sure they are realistic and not harmful […]

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À La Carte: The Properties of Mercury

July 8, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Cynthia Stock

[creative nonfiction] Nothing ostentatious, nothing reminiscent of the young man who, after a weekend of clubbing, raved about the bodies of the men he met. “They had bodies of death,” he laughed, never realizing the irony of foreshadowing. No amount of make-up could cover the Kaposi’s, that’s what we called them then, on his nose. It bloomed with the deep purple and distinct outline of an O’Keefe flower […]

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Spotlight: Aleph Friedman Killed

July 1, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Omer Friedlander

[fiction] The messenger arrives early in the morning. He hands Rachel an envelope. Inside the envelope is a letter printed on lengths of tape and pasted on a form. In the letter, there are three words. Aleph Friedman Killed.

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À La Carte: To guide my son to sleep

June 24, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Geoff Anderson

I shut his blue eyes,
my hand still enough

to keep each iris closed.
I have learned both

to tie a curtain and silence […]

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Spotlight: Golden Years

June 17, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Esteban Rodríguez

Because nursing homes were for gringos,
my grandfather spent his last years
on the couch, idle, silent, drooling
as he watched novelas, old episodes
of Cops, and—as hour after hour passed— […]

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À La Carte: Waning Gibbous

June 4, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Kiran Bath

1
Google: How early do girls masturbate?
in her eighth year / maybe earlier / low tides birthed: a lotus / splitting legs / to conch shell murmurs / she
swirls / her lotus / chews mattress / her lotus / bends pillow / her lotus / rubs its cheek / against raggedy
Anne / repetition sharpens / her lotus / petal / into blade / petal tears / knitted crotch / crotch spills / cotton
/ spills / from mute dolly / yet / no cotton / will enter girl / enter lotus / tampons are phallic / kabardaar

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Spotlight: 85%

May 27, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Nico Oré-Girón

[fiction] On any given day, I spend about 85% of my energy trying to not look crazy. Which is why it’s really pissing me the fuck off that Emma is spending about 0% of her energy not listening to the really simple thing I asked her to do: stay on her half of the desk. […]

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Kerrie Smith, Vapours 5, 2018, Acrylic/Aluminum panel, 16x12"

Spotlight: Patterns in Nature

May 20, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Kerrie Smith

My current endeavor is to capture our changing planet. Consequently, my artwork examines patterns in our environment—urban and industrial as well as natural. I’m interested in the changing intersection between place in city or nature. As an artist, I feel a responsibility to address these changes and the environmental impacts they have had […]

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

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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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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

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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