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Spotlight: Sonnet II: We’re Not in Chinatown Anymore / Sonnet XI: Fast Paces of Street Market Life

August 21, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Dorothy Chan

[poetry] Sonnet II: We’re Not in Chinatown Anymore Philly’s Chinatown has no Hollywood, just a bunch of ripped up movie billboards, blockbusters translated into Chinese, signs right in front of the bookshop where I wait: my father is buying his zodiac books, fortunes for the new year. He’s psychic— it’s the Tiger telling his Snake […]

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Writers Read: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

August 14, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Andre Hardy

Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress is a quintessential hard-boiled mystery novel. Mosley’s protagonist, Easy Rawlins, is on par with two of the genre’s most notable characters, Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade and Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer. Set in 1948 Los Angeles, the sharply written first person narrative pays homage to its traditional genre conceits. […]

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Spotlight: Letters From Indiana

August 7, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Brooke White

[creative nonfiction] My mom sent me letters from Indiana. Stacks of cards with flowers and curly, purple ink inside. Breathtaking cursive spanned the card. My small hands touched the parts where she’d written sweet girl or my name. She had her first nervous breakdown when I was six years old, and was admitted to a […]

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Writers Read: Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

July 31, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Edmond Stevens

Cormac McCarthy’s third novel Child of God, based loosely on an infamous murder in Sevier County, Tennessee, portrays a cycle of extreme isolation, perversity, and violence as representative of the natural human experience. The novel tells the story of Lester Ballard, “a child of God much like yourself perhaps,” who, facing a series of unfortunate […]

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Brandi Read, The Oppression of Flora, 2015, Medium, Size

Spotlight: Unset in Stone

July 24, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Brandi Read

Stories from Classical mythology have pervaded European culture. My work seeks to address how mythology and the retelling of myths serve to reflect, reinforce, and influence our gender ideologies. Our perception of women is directly affected by how they are portrayed in art, from the stories and poems from antiquity to the way we see women and girls currently depicted in contemporary art and […]

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Writers Read: Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat

July 17, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Meredith Arena

Create Dangerously begins with an essay about the public executions of Louis Drouin and Marcel Numa in Port-au-Prince. Drouin and Numa were Haitians who had met while living in New York City and had returned to Haiti as part of a guerrilla army that intended to take down the Duvalier dictatorship. François Duvalier—Papa Doc—made sure […]

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Irene Vasquez

Spotlight: Freehanding Maps of Minnesota / Canción Bilingüe

July 10, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Irene Vasquez

[poetry] Freehanding Maps of Minnesota I have called you feather down in my sleep, christened you the verge of memory, painted your rivers in the rain. I have written the scene before I even arrive; The breeze floats just enough to rustle the edges of the paper, lines only tenuously drawn. Do your lakes ever […]

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Writers Read: Things That Are by Amy Leach

July 3, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

Things That Are is Amy Leach’s whimsical collection of nonfiction essays about the natural world. These essays blend poetry, nonfiction, and nature writing—bending the genre and exploring the boundaries of what form creative nonfiction can take. It’s through the unexpected and illuminating prose that Leach seeks to create a relationship between the reader and the […]

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Denise Tolan

Spotlight: Because You are Dead

June 26, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Denise Tolan

[fiction] You don’t know I have a picture of you, because you are dead. Before you were dead, I wondered what it would be like to be trapped in your mouth for eternity, like a wedded Jonah. Whenever you said honey or Leeza or, more likely, Lisa, I would feel the rib cage constrict. I […]

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Writers Read: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

June 19, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Joshua Roark

There is a real casual ease by which the poems in Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth present themselves. They are not struggling to find a voice, but are grounded firmly in their style and language. This little chapbook feels solid, weighty, and Shire does a fine job of creating consistency in such a short […]

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King: A Street Story

Writers Read: King: A Street Story by John Berger

June 5, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Katelyn Keating

The blurb for the paperback printing of King reveals the title character, our narrator, is canine. But John Berger blurs species lines in this poignant tale of twenty-four hours in the life of the marginalized inhabitants of a French homeless camp. With Berger’s spare, lyric prose, King is granted first person point of view. He […]

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Emma Sloley

Spotlight: My Sweet Amygdala

May 29, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Emma Sloley

[fiction] What would you do if you weren’t afraid? I walk out to the car in a state of unusual calm. In the house over there, which I share with my husband and son, my husband has just now informed me that he isn’t in love with me anymore, that in fact he is in […]

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Writers Read: Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

May 22, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Amy Shimshon-Santo

Night Sky With Exit Wounds is woven from deep threads—the experience of fleeing war and becoming a refugee, migration and the sea, parent-child relationships, and queer sexuality. Life is complex. Layers of emotion, memory, and transformation unite in this journey of one human being. Vuong’s stories and structures made me feel huge possibilities in poetry. […]

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Claudia Serea

Spotlight: I Remember the Smells

May 15, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Claudia Serea

[poetry] I remember the smell of rusty handlebars, of rotten onions, smoke, garlic meatballs, stale fried fish, and clogged toilets. The local train smelled of skin of man and animal, of cheap tobacco and unwashed clothes, the smell of poverty and cold. The peasants carried raffia sacks stuffed with bread, food for chickens, and pigs. […]

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Writers Read: Happening by Annie Ernaux

May 8, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Michelle Templeton

Near the end of her abortion memoir Annie Ernaux writes, “…these things happened to me so that I might recount them. Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, …causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people” (92). Not […]

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Jayne Marek, Water Jelly Infinity, 2016, Medium, Size

Spotlight: Northwest Coast Structures

May 1, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Jayne Marek

These images, taken in 2016 in the Pacific Northwest, demonstrate my interest in using tonalities and arrangements to elicit abstract shapes from natural objects. My art photographs utilize isolation of detail as a tactic to focus attention; I enjoy discovering how realistic contents can be grasped in new ways when guided by the discerning camera lens […]

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Writers Read: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

April 24, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Meg Gaertner

On the face of it, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is a collection of ten short stories, many of which take place on the same island, many of which contain strong elements of magical realism, and all of which employ precise, evocative language. In “Ava Wrestles the Alligator,” against the backdrop of […]

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Gessy Alvarez

Spotlight: The Last Word

April 17, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Gessy Alvarez

[fiction] I’m wearing my banana-yellow pantsuit and my best ash-blonde, bob-styled wig. He’s an hour late. One of my fake lashes falls on my lap. The glue still sticky on my eyelid. He yells from outside my window. You up there? I press the eyelashes back in place and stumble out of the apartment and […]

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To Those Who Have Failed

Writers Read: Vivas to Those Who Have Failed by Martín Espada

April 10, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Adrian Cepeda

Martín Espada, where have you been all of my life? I believe that the universe sends artists, writers and poets gifts of inspiration when they truly need it. Espada is a Latino poet, like me, born in America, who has the eloquence of Walt Whitman and the passionate pulsating spirit of Charles Bukowski. Espada’s poetry […]

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Spotlight: Shadow

April 3, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Maayan Avery

late night fireplace hiss; you bury yourself in rumpled quilts; woolen sanctums for solitude. circling your callused chest is a prison and epiphany— mouths and pectorals make a reckless truce to learn the metaphors of symmetry. we slipped one quarter in love and the rest in snow; our crumbling house is beige-mess of carpet string, […]

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Writers Read: Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay

March 27, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Lauren Kinney

This collection of poetry opens with epigraphs by Charles Darwin, including one that lists similarities in the “framework of bones” between different animals: fins and hands, vertebrae in giraffes and elephants, “and innumerable other such facts, at once explain themselves on the theory of descent” (11). The poems shift their subjects from animals to humans, […]

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Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, Black Hole, 2016, Medium, Size

Spotlight: Ordinary Space by Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier

March 20, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier

Each piece is made from ordinary items such as balls, light fixtures, outdoor flowers and even a jelly fish. The ordinary does not have to stay as such and this collection is meant to challenge the concept of ordinary and take you to the universe of infinite space, where the impossible is possible.

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Writers Read: The Best American Short Stories edited by Junot Diaz

March 13, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Melissa Benton Barker

The 2016 edition of The Best American Short Stories, edited by Junot Diaz, plumbs the multiplicity of writing within the English language – and it may be a beacon for the future of the North American canon. The stories contained within this collection represent the vast experience of writing within an “American” life, as opposed […]

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Janet Malotky

Spotlight: Ascension / Whale / Post-Apocalyptic Lotus

March 6, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Janet Malotky

Ascension When at last it tilted worse to land than leave what happened was this: the birds snipped their gravitational strands. They took two or three or five final wing strokes heavenward and on that momentum traveled, up and out. Kingdom, Phylum, Class: Aves the birds folded splendor, resisted iridescence, overrode any hints of song. […]

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Writers Read: Live Girls by Beth Nugent

February 27, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Tim Cummings

Live Girls by Beth Nugent is the story of Catherine, twenty-years-old, who abandons her first year of college at a women’s religious university, moves to the nearby city where she takes up residence at a seedy transient hotel, and accepts a job as a ticket seller in a squalid, decaying porn theatre. Catherine is pretty, curiously […]

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Spotlight: Eso

February 20, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Jimena Burnett

When business was slow, the curandero would take his skills to the stable to heal horses. To the ladies at the barn, he speaks English, recommending an ointment, but there is no saying it in English. So, he says it in in Spanish: Cebo de Coyote con Aceite de Víbora. To the horses, he speaks […]

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Writers Read: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

February 13, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Kim Sabin

“Somebody’s got to bleed if anybody’s going to drink” (164). In his climate-fiction (cli-fi) novel, The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi’s cinematic writing begs to find its way to the big screen where his vast landscapes, dramatic dialogue, and poignant message on water consumption can reach the masses. While his story lands big, juicy punches, Baciglupi’s […]

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Donna Steiner, Swimming with My Eyes Open, July 2016, acrylic ink on clayboard, 6”x6”

Spotlight: Swimming with My Eyes Open

February 6, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Donna Steiner

In the last year, both my mother and father died. They were gone within 42 days of each other, one to a stroke, one to heart failure. These paintings, part of a much larger collection, were attempts to convey feelings of being submerged, of being unable to put words to experience, being unable to surface […]

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Writers Read: Coal Mountain Elementary by Mark Nowak

January 30, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Juliann Allison

Coal Mountain Elementary is a noteworthy example of investigative poetry, which incorporates data and reportage—including statistics, historical documents, news media, interviews, and images—into, most commonly, lyrical and prose poems. Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) is a well-known example of the former type as it lets the reader enter the […]

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Savannah Johnston

Spotlight: Shells II by Savannah Johnston

January 23, 2017/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2017 / Savannah Johnston

[fiction] Our room is around the back of the motel, away from the highway floodlights. Hiram and Baby are sleeping in the backseat by the time we pull up, and Mama carries Baby while Daddy slings Hiram over his shoulder like a sack of flour. Myself I walk. I’m grown enough to see the motel […]

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Friday Lunch Blog

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

Today’s course:

The Enduring Haunting of a Failed Driver’s Test(s)

September 15, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Glitch Wisdom

May 12, 2023/in Blog / KJ McCoy
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Lessons on Getting Paid: My First Year as a Freelance Writer

April 14, 2023/in Blog / EJ Saunders
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The Secret Histories of Everywhere

June 2, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Brian Lynn
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Into the Linguistic Rabbit Hole

May 5, 2023/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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Dancing into Detachment

April 7, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Robert Kirwin
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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

If you are an artist of any kind, chances are you are no stranger to The Unknown. In fact, it has probably been a motivating factor in creating your art. I know it has been for me. Wrestling with The Unknown is a fundamental part of the human experience, and the human experience is a fundamental part of art.

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