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Achromatopsia

May 23, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Bebhinn McilroyHawley

Imagine a world in which removing your lover’s eye is normal.

You don’t come from this world, but at a house party in New Jersey, in an apartment across the street from an A & P, you meet someone who does. You’re sitting on someone’s bed, half-drunk and navigating a potential threesome, when they walk in, sunglasses on indoors at 11pm, holding a bottle of beer in a way that judges you.

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1973

June 11, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Laura Falsetti

Sometimes my breath catches in my throat and won’t let go. The only real danger in this world is sleeping though it seems as if the humidifier is breathing along with us. Can you feel it?[…]

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An Ode to MC Jin Ending in Response to the Chinese Virus Outbreak

June 3, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Masaki Takahashi

I don’t even feel comfortable in public coughing,

Without someone trying to put a nail in it. And that’s nothing to sneeze at. No hand washing or hand sanitizer will clean you of your phobias.[…]

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Dis/obedience, Synecdoche, Vice Versa, & Machinations of the Absurdly Happy

May 13, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Anna Wang

                                                                                Anna Wang is a high school student from Illinois. Her writing has been recognized by […]

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Everything’s Fine

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Andrei Guruianu

Every night the train rattles along the West 4 Street platform
like some futuristic bull pushing archaeological trash
through the catacombs of the city.

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Spoke

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

 Which is a word that      means ghost, as it     wanders, so much blown trash, soulful       only as you      make something of it,      interrupting its leanings, a physical       event and vulnerabilities,      of buildings and populations. Budgetary allocations are       patterns, they originate in the       popular will and the dirt pressed back,       or down, it’s       so much work, […]

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Poem Composed Entirely with Last Lines from Tony Hoagland Poems

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by James Valvis

As I was walking through the Springdale Mall somewhere outside Pittsburgh down into the belly of the world,   I made a word my friend with my breathless mouth. No one knows why   it all turned upside down to keep both of us amused, in chains,   and capable of saying anything — as […]

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No Hidden Portals

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Nate Pritts

Tell her goodbye when you see her because sometimes it’s best to start with the ending & work in reverse. I know a thing or two about phases   said the moon after no one asked it anything at all. I feel bad about the things that I said but also whatever I didn’t. Tell […]

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The B-Team

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Martin Ott and John F. Buckley

Their pilot Mulligan was only crazy for golf, practicing his swing whenever he could: on the tarmac, in the air, and even while fleeing North Korean groundskeeper cells. Otherwise, plenty of rest and fluids made his world go round, granting the energy and mental acuity to tackle each day’s tasks, like diversifying his retirement holdings. […]

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My Secret

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Sheila Black

Even if I did not dare invite anyone, I still wanted a party—the fountain downtown to change   times, a saxophone to start noodling out of nowhere as I crossed the street past mine or simply   a friend to sit me down at the table of pressed-tin under the striped awnings where chestnut trees […]

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Child Reaching For Maps On a Bus

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by George Bishop

She was three, maybe four years old, ages away from maps and schedules, timers set to govern how late or lost she’d become, how partially found among hours that went by dark and undiscovered.   However, her touch mechanism was already fully formed, activated at birth—the rest of her life would be fine tuning the […]

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Leaves Fall, Then New Ones

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Yim Tan Wong

Through autumn leaves that lift and drop like birdless wings, perpetually rearranging the Public Garden, my daughter cartwheels and sings.   Tourists and policemen on horses tap their feet, clap, toss coins that tumble through the brisk air like brass and copper buttons popping off a worn coat. The attention makes her sing louder.   […]

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The Blindfolded Man III

May 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by R L Swihart

Acting on the belief that anachronisms are talismen, he rode Helvetie’s old elevator (3 people max) up and down at least three times   Once he got off on the wrong floor   Another time he got off to ask the night porter to uncork a local bottle (bought down the street at Mosca Vins) […]

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Un Instant Inévitable

May 25, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Derek Pollard

Take myself. To know coeur. As us. Tonight. The thorn of to have— What was done before the knife’s plunge. Without breaking the I am for you. That is no pain. Before the sting of flesh, imagine— To be played in the round. Plosion into fragile am, nor along the slightest edge: forsake our collaring […]

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Grandma and the Football Team

May 25, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Eleanor Levine

Grandma didn’t always hang with a football team, sometimes she played hockey or ice-skated with Chinese waiters. It was rumored she went skating on a date twenty years after her husband died.   She was a tall, peculiar bride to Louis who strolled near Orthodox Jews who came to her house to perform miracles.   […]

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Breadcrumbs

May 25, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Lois Marie Harrod

So many substitutions in this story: stepmother for mother, brother for father, morsels of muffin for little white stones,   and once the oven is hot, witch for boy, and in earlier locations, Gretel for pearl, girl for teeth, take my thumbs for chicken bones,   grandma, take my babies for wolf meat. I’d give […]

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Folklore     pg. 2650     Folklore

May 25, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Dina Hardy

Begin with the equation: wood = bone. If bone, a rib splintered, branch in fragments. Fabricate from these pieces, the parts for a miniature ship —delicately assemble her through the narrow neck of an oblong bottle (if glass, then skin) to be corked   and kept. From bone, bone; skin, skin. This is the beginning, […]

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Actor on a Bicycle in the Sun

May 25, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Ricky Garni

We made fun of him when he was young and we made fun of him when he was old   It’s because he was so beautiful when he was young interestingly enough, beautiful when he was old, too   I am not talking about an inanimate object. For example, this candlestick here.   The wick […]

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The Geometry of Us

May 25, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Valentina Cano

It was that minute in the elevator, that moment when we careened through floors with only a gap of words between us. It was then that I knew the way we watched each other would have to end. It would have to be untangled, like a skein, a section at a time until we could […]

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Black Coffee and Skinned Pigs

May 8, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Spring 2012 / by Gabriel Cabrera

Before the endless cups of black coffee, you dreamed one night of a plump man the shape of a pear hanging above your bed screwing on a golden penis. “It wasn’t the fact that it was gold that made me wake up in tears it was the fact he was turning it to the left […]

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Friday Lunch Blog

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 / Michelle Hampton
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Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Michelle Hampton
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Michelle Hampton
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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 / Michelle Hampton
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Michelle Hampton
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Michelle Hampton
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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 / paparouna
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Talyshi Wall Graffiti and other poems

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

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Michelle Hampton
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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 / Lizzy Young
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Lizzy Young
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Caroline Shannon Karasik
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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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