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Father and child fishing in the sunrise

As the Salmon Runs Grow Thin

March 21, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Leland Seese

Our daughter has put herself
in hospital again.

I spend the day beside her,
talking, laughing, abiding silence

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Wizard Grits: The Secret Life of the Indie Publisher

June 12, 2014/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Derrick C. Brown, of Write Bloody Publishing

I never thought I’d be doing this. I recall sitting in a foxhole as a paratrooper, reading the book of Psalms and thinking, hey, I kinda looove this. I always thought the point of poetry was to confuse.  Thousands of couches later, five books and literary festivals all over the world, I want to take […]

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Word From the Editor

June 8, 2014/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2014 / by David Bumpus, Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014

I knew that being the editor of Lunch Ticket would require filling some pretty big shoes, but it wasn’t until I was directing the journal that I fully understood the extent of what that implied: it wasn’t just a matter of successfully leading a staff of almost 40 volunteers, but of building upon what the editor before me […]

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Kiese Laymon, Author of Long Division

June 5, 2014/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2014 / Book reviewed by Allie Marini Batts; author interviewed by Jamie Moore and Daniel José Older

Some authors write along the questions, Is it true, is it necessary, is it kind? Long Division is true. More than ever, it is necessary. But is it kind? Rarely are things in this complicated world that are true and necessary also kind. Long Division does not shrink away from this dichotomy—instead, it rises to meet the challenge. The bravery of writing a story without shrinking away from the violence,

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Lev Grossman, Author

June 4, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2014 / Interviewed by David A. Napier

Grossman is a New York Times national and international best-selling author. His first novel, Warp, was published in 1997. His second novel, Codex, became an international bestseller. The Magicians, the first book of a trilogy, was a New York Times Best Seller, won the 2010 Alex Award […]

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Cosme Cordova, Artist and Community Arts Organizer

June 3, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2014 / Interviewed by Kiandra Jimenez

Cosme Cordova was born in San Pedro de la Cueva in Sonora, Mexico, and brought to Riverside, California at five years old, where he still resides. Cordova is the owner of Division 9 Gallery (Riverside, California). In 2002 he co-founded Riverside’s Arts Walk along with Mark Schooley (Riverside Community Arts Association), which has run monthly […]

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Elizabeth Earley, Author

June 2, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2014 / Interviewed by Ashley Perez

Elizabeth Earley holds an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. Elizabeth is the recipient of the David Friedman Memorial Prize for Fiction, has twice been a finalist for the AWP […]

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Douglas Kearney, Poet

June 1, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2014 / Interviewed by Candace Butler

Douglas Kearney is a poet, performer, and librettist from Altadena, California. Kearney has received a Whiting Writers Award, a Coat Hanger Award, and fellowships at Cave Canem, Idyllwild, and others. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including Poetry, nocturnes, Pleiades, Callaloo, Fence, LA Review of Books, The Iowa Review, and The Ninth Letter. His produced operas include Sucktion, […]

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His Last Word Was Silence

May 31, 2014/in Summer-Fall 2014, Translation, Translation / by Gustavo Arango, translated from the Spanish by Sean Cook

To S.B If I’m not dead, if somebody isn’t dreaming or imagining me, then I’m rocking back and forth and it’s cold. Back and forth. To the rhythm of the thing that for such a long time I’ve called heart. Back and forth. Without effort, to and fro. The difficult part is departing, leaving the […]

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D. J. Waldie, Author

May 31, 2014/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2014 / Interviewed by Jennifer McCharen

  D.J. Waldie is the author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, Where Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, and other books about Southern California. He also is the author—with Diane Keaton—of two architectural studies: California Romantica and House. Jennifer McCharen: What are you working on right now? D.J. Waldie: For some years I’ve been writing a blog twice a week […]

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Leaving

May 30, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by R. Peralez

They delivered the news of his death with a sharply creased flag. She was nursing their two-week-old girl-child on the worn couch, lulled by the glow of the television then the hard rap on the door snapped her awake. She yanked her breast back into the nursing bra and bounced the squalling baby in […]

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Takeoff

May 30, 2014/in Summer-Fall 2014, Translation, Translation / by Sven Hansen-Löve, translated from the French by Simon Rogghe

1. She walks by. Her gait grabs your attention. She is about to go onto the footbridge. At the last moment, she changes her mind. The speakers announce a train is about to enter the station. You look at the clock: almost nine pm. The train’s not yours. Time to kill. Nothing to read. The […]

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My grandfather dies at CJ’s Motel

May 30, 2014/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Tyler Atwood

Then in the motel room they rented by the month—with the kitchenette & the microwave & the mini-refrigerator & cable tv When he sat upright & peered at the ceiling each lung an ocean eyes wide & hands tight on the arms of the recliner My father swears he saw the host of heaven call […]

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Perry and Vega

May 30, 2014/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Anthony Martin

[flash fiction] Thinking about cunnilingus in the elevator is hardly a cause for concern. That was what Dr. Wendy Savannah told Vega while they were having lunch this afternoon. It’s every time I ride the one at work though, replied Vega. I think it’s because my husband won’t do it right. Dr. Savannah looked out […]

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The Surreal World: Parallel Universe: Pencil Drawings

May 30, 2014/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Eunice Choi
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First Season, Shotgun

May 30, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Jason Arment

A mild winter meant a busy first shotgun season for hunters in the rolling hills of southern Iowa. My father and I had made the hour drive from Des Moines south on I-35 to my grandfather’s land midday Friday for the hunt that night. When we arrived, the evening air was cool, but not cold, […]

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Did You Know That Witches Speak With Their Vaginas?

May 29, 2014/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Dana Green

[flash fiction] It started when she was thirteen. It started because she was always cold. When she was cold her knees would knock echoes down the mountains. The sound tested avalanches. It was a thing that was sistered to womanhood. A movement from within, like the beginnings of an itch. She started like her mother […]

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Nuclear Fallout

May 29, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Luanne Castle

While the one divides into two: the heart and its shadow, The world and its threat, the crow back of the sparrow. -“Of Ancient Origins and War” Brigit Pegeen Kelly   “Doesn’t look like much,” Mom said, as we pulled into the parking lot of the Titan Missile Museum. The main building was low to the […]

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You are a Woman

May 29, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Joseph Allan

As told through the lips of Nước Hoa. I stood angry. I entered the waters of the Xepon in a wild and arrogant gait. Meiet, the tallest of all the village teenage girls, quieted my sloppy entry with a stare. It did not register with my tortured mind her appearance. She stood in the river […]

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xiii (from The Ep[is]odes: A Reformulation of Horace)

May 29, 2014/in Summer-Fall 2014, Translation, Translation / by Horace, translated from the Latin by T.A. Noonan

from The Ep[is]odes: A Reformulation of Horace xiii The sky is rough, fierce with sound, as Jupiter launches rain and snow. From woods to sea, nothing but northern winds. Let’s celebrate the occasion, friends, before our blooming knees are shrouded and broken by age. By my order, let’s open the wine pressed in that consul’s […]

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Illumination and Night Glare: Oil Paintings

May 29, 2014/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Thony Aiuppy
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White-Washed

May 29, 2014/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Dalia Ahmed

My mother fashioned my hair +++++iinto rows of wheat. ++++++++++++++++iI am in a plaid button down ++++++++++++++++++++++iand cow girl boots– ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++this is the year +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++iiI will declare my All-American heritage: +++++ino more cornrow pleats ++++++++++++++++ior Southern meals. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Today I am not my accent +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++iior choice of meal. I am a black stain +++++ion a white […]

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Helen of Troy in Hiroshima

May 28, 2014/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Catherine Keefe

Yesterday, a man walking his monkey on a leash kissed my cheek offered sweet potato ice cream. A flavor I’ve never tried. This note— Please burn your bread at the right toaster. Temple sign teaches what to say before I cross the bridge: careful of the footing because the responsibility cannot be assumed about the […]

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Gladys

May 28, 2014/in Summer-Fall 2014, Translation, Translation / by Mónica Lavín, translated from the Spanish by Patricia Dubrava

You park in front of the restaurant where you’d agreed to rendezvous. You met him on the plane. How often such chats filled the space of the hours of flight, sometimes against your will, sometimes with it. You weren’t the one who started the conversation. It was almost never you. It was the man on […]

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Orientation Week

May 28, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Natalie Cornell

In 1962 my parents packed four suitcases, one gray trunk with a brass lock, my stereo, my tennis racket (remnant of happier days and therefore a sign of their hope for my future), and me into our white Lincoln Continental. We headed up Route 301 to the University of Florida campus in Gainesville three hundred […]

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Me and Jerry

May 28, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Lisbeth Davidow

“Do you like Jerry Lewis?” I ask the stranger next to me in a movie theater. We’ve been making small talk, waiting for the movie to begin, about films and directors, young and old. The conversation has just turned to comedians, and I thought, there’s my cue. She tilts her blonde head. “He’s not my […]

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Behind the Chair: Monoprints, Oil Paintings, & Charcoal Drawings

May 28, 2014/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Amanda Boehm-Garcia
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Phantom Language

May 27, 2014/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Elizabeth Hoover

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely “I don’t remember anything that happened to me.” Michael lifts his hands to chest level as if he is about to catch something. He has beautiful hands that make neat stitches on a hem or trace in the air music’s rise and fall. Now they feel the emptiness […]

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Swagger

May 27, 2014/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Scott David

I know you. You’re a swagger. A badass. Someone who went and got his mettle tested and returned stateside to the tea drinkers and powderpuffs with a chip on his shoulder and ribbons pinned to your chest. The world had got a whole lot smaller while you were at war: one day walking proud, the […]

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On Seeing Swans at the Embassy Suites, & When You Ask About Karen

May 27, 2014/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Caridad Moro

On Seeing Swans at the Embassy Suites I wasn’t expecting swans. You were partial to dark corners oaken Algonquin lounges smoky with cigarettes and specters, stories we spilled across the bar, but that night you offered swans their pearled splendor indelible, dappled promise of what our lives together could have been— long necked beauties swimming […]

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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 / 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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The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand…

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