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Spotlight Arts: Rock, Paper, Scissors

November 23, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Sasha Louis Bush

Sasha Louis Bush’s ongoing series Rock, Paper, Scissors, uses elementary school classrooms in New York City as a shared creative space, serving both children and adults.[…]

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Treason

November 16, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Sean Mahoney

Disability as entertainment. For entertainment purposes only. For compelling narratives. We give to telethons and walkathons and passionate speechification to keep all disease away… like throwing virgins or dogs—sometimes entire cities—into or under volcanoes to appease the gods.[…]

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Discomfort Makes Us Better: 10 Questions with Julie Fain

November 16, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Interviewed by Barbara Platts

I certainly see an awakening of sorts right now. In this moment in particular I see it on the part of people of color in publishing, who I think have been marginalized for a very long time and are gaining confidence to speak up and are seeing openings for that. Maybe this moment will open up some doors, but I think it’s going to be painful for some people to address those realities. I welcome it.[…]

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City and Its Underground Worker / Blue Boy Smuggling Birds’ Nests up the Trees

November 2, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Chen Du and Xisheng Chen

Yan An’s poems are highly experimental, unconventional, and unique according to the standards and traditions of Chinese culture, considering their aesthetic value, contents, philosophical denotations, and meanings. As a pioneer in modern westernized Chinese poetry, Yan An has completely transformed Chinese readers’ concepts and understanding of poetry through his unique views about the universe, life, society, and people.[…]

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A Truth Before Truth

October 26, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith

History is a border mining town where the immigrant citizen workers were loaded and deported on trains across the line and none of the high school history teachers know about the Bisbee Deportation. None of the history teachers teach the Bisbee Deportation names crushed into dark shafts banished on ghost trains. History knows about systemic indifference and the looting of voices.

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My Mama Gives Birth

October 19, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / John Dorroh

This is not surgery, but delicate massage, feeling the flour fall into thickening milk, caving into the mix from the sides, birthing like a glacier into that fabulous muck hole, oozing between her fingers as she delicately mixes a quicksand of sorts, widening its territory until the feel is just right. Not too much, not too little.

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When My First Cousin’s Husky Puppy Licks My Face / They Say Men Are Always About Looks

October 12, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Ben Kline

but I fell in love over the phone in 1989, his name two low notes shoved out my throat, repeated like a gulf smacking shore rocks in starlight, our letters tucked between issues of Uncanny X-Men because I did not want a willow switch across my back

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The Night Before the Snow Day

October 5, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / L. Shapley Bassen

The hijab had made her feel blessed when she had first been allowed to put it on. She thought she was praising Allah. She knew she was pleasing her father. He had looked at her in a different way that day.[…]

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Family Prayers

September 29, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Stephanie Rael

This was different. This was x-rays, exams, and endless procedures. Like everything in this god-forsaken land, her body seemed to be drying up beneath the unrelenting sun.[…]

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Baldilocks

September 21, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Shikhandin

The women from my mother’s generation would have held their hands to their cheeks in shock and dismay. They would have cursed me for acting like a widow when I was fortunate to have a husband, alive and well! They would have whispered darkly about me, the irresponsible married woman who wore the symbol of widowhood so blithely![…]

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The War is Still Within: An Interview with Tanya Ko Hong

September 14, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Janet Rodriguez

I think of Korean immigrant writers who lived longer in the United States than I have, writers who wanted to share their stories but died without doing so. And others who did, wrote in Korean and were not translated. Their immigrant experiences are different from mine. That is why I feel compelled to write and share stories on behalf of those voiceless, invisible, powerless women.[…]

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Resistance

September 7, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Louise Julig

She has tried opening up about her trauma to people she thought she could trust, but some friends distanced themselves or chided her for not “getting over it” when her story didn’t fit neatly into a survivor narrative. They didn’t want to hear how the twin poisons of abuse and silence seep their way into the body, how even the most processed trauma lies latent.[…]

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Spotlight Arts: Dark Art

August 31, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Shannon Elizabeth Gardner

Shannon’s use of watercolor and India Ink are unforced and create beauty within flaws while crafting an earthy grunge appearance.

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On Trying To Guess My Newly-Dead Father’s Computer Password

August 24, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Megan Neville

check under the keyboard because that generation no

try: [my name + sister’s name] he liked me more no

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Stage Two/Follow-Up/All Love Stories are Death Stories

August 17, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / M. Soledad Caballero

You are invasive, like water through stone cracking grey
shimmers inside, like jelly fish in the Pacific swimming,
stuck to legs and arms, stinging skin in the salty brine.

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A History

August 10, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Karen J. Anderson

I need to tell the stories of African American people’s history and accomplishments in hope of strengthening and building confidence in the community. I examine the precious moments that have been erased from our timelines and that need to be brought back, such as their backbreaking work and the unforgivable wrongs they endured.[…]

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It Takes Twelve (12) Onions to Make My Mom Cry

August 3, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

isn’t it funny how
femininity is shamed even when it’s on women? i find it funny as a man very much in touch with his feminine side just how much of men’s hatred of women gets projected on me.[…]

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LitDish: Chen Chen, Poet and Educator

July 27, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / An Interview with Regan Humphrey

The poetic form has a compressed intensity to it. There’s such a focus. With the essay form, there’s more room to expand upon things. In an essay, I can wander around a little bit more; I can go on a tangent and reconnect with the main focus of the essay later. I like having that room.[…]

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Meditations Disrupted By Red Lemon Ghost With Strange Head Knocking Device: Drawings

July 20, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Bryan Voell

My drawings incorporate various combinations of paper, crayon, watercolor, ink, and digital embellishments using the Procreate app. Some are all digital. Whatever I’m working on, my goal is to make it new.

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LitDish: Joshua Rourke, Publisher and Author

July 13, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / An Interview with Sen Sherman

I’m one of those poets who gets the most creative satisfaction out of editing. That said, I don’t think I would enjoy working on a poem or group of poems after more than a few months. I tend to tinker until I make myself sick of it.[…]

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Stage Two / Follow-Up / All Love Stories are Death Stories

June 18, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / M. Soledad Caballero

Stage Two You are invasive, like water through stone cracking grey
shimmers inside, like jelly fish in the Pacific swimming,
stuck to legs and arms, stinging skin in the salty brine.
Dark murmuration, wall of bones and feathers and small
bodies swooping through the sky, blotting out light and time […]

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The Holy Trinity / Seen, A Conversation with Josephine Baker

June 18, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Kyndal Thomas

Allen, TX In a stash of nostalgia my parents keep a piece of orange paper. Typed at the top it reads: “What three things are most important to you?” and underneath in neat rounded writing my teacher transcribed my answer: “God, Jesus, and money.”[…]

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Call Me Spes #7/ #9 / #11

June 8, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Sara Marron

how often and when to learn significant places significant conversations significant persons to provide personalized experiences relating building memories building navigation assembling itself language feelings to black one binary white zero[…]

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Dan Jian, Shunga

Land of Lights

June 1, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Dan Jian

My work explores an inner world of stored images and reflects on the shifting space of landscape, narrative, and memory. In the context of globalization, I am interested in how any image conveys a sense of time and place specific to a personal and cultural history; drawing and painting have been the constants on which I rely to investigate these questions […]

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LitDish: Lisa Bunker, Author and American Politician

May 25, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Adrien Kade Sdao

That radical melding of reader and character is, in my opinion, one of the highest rewards of reading, and I strive to create stories that encourage readers to experience it.[…]

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Bad Dreams in America

May 18, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Talya Jankovits

And this is when fear grips me the tightest. How can I protect them? How can I keep them safe—[…]

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Magpie’s Dazzling / The Magpie Draws its Sorrow Line / Don’t Call Me Noo-Noo

May 9, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Koss

Magpie’s Dazzling 
when the magpie comes
he skulks behind his splendor
listen as he mirrors your tongue
careful, your ear, to the mummer

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Saba Shahid-Moir, Art Therapist

May 3, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Loumarie Rodriguez

Chief Smiling Officer of the Art Cart, Saba Shahid-Moir, MS, has made it her mission to help those who can’t smile so easily anymore due to complications from Parkinson’s disease […]

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Letter to a Black Girl from her Great, Great Grandmother / Such Strange Fruit / Africa

April 27, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Roshanda Johnson II

Women always choose survival over sadness. The story of our constant lack goes like this: in a land, some land, any land, men
stole the beans & rice, fed our bodies to the war, any war […]

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Chinedu Chidebe

Art and Emotions

April 20, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Chinedu Chidebe

My art was born out the quest for perfection, and in every work that I create, I make a realistic drawing of people, showing the emotions they wish we could see through their eyes, with pencils. […]

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

Today’s course:

Behind the Eight Ball: How to Become Homeless in the Richest Country in the World

June 13, 2025/in Blog / Valerie Nyberg
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Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Tale of the resistant apple tree

June 6, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Tahar Bekri, translated by Patrick Williamson
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Talyshi Wall Graffiti and other poems

May 30, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Ghazal
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we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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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 state of the world breaks my heart every day. Broken hearted, I stay online. I can’t log off. Because my career and schooling are all done remotely, I tend to struggle with boundaries regarding screen time, with knowing when to break away.

Like many of you, I have been spilling my guts online to the world because the guts of the world keep spilling. None of it is pretty. But it’s one of the things that, having searched for basically my entire life, I found that tempers the chaos that lives rent free inside my head.

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