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Ode on Datura

May 28, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Christopher Dollard

Drink this tea, he said, and you will fly naked into starlight. I drank, felt tired, and sat on the couch and ate potato chips. Drink this tea and you will not know yourself. We drove along the freeway by your old school, without direction or speed as light raptured down through barred clouds scudding […]

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Mamasafari, Mountain Aunt, Property

May 28, 2015/in Summer-Fall 2015, Translation, Translation / by Olja Savičević Ivančević, Translated by Andrea Jurjević

Mamasafari Some people live and die worse than their cows. When the people were taken away cows lowed in the fields until they died. When I talk about this to colleagues, they turn to one another, as if I’m crazy. How do you talk about that at conferences? That’s much too practical for conferences. That’s […]

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Roxane Gay, Author of An Untamed State

May 27, 2015/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2015 / book review and author interview by Melissa Greenwood

Prolific writer of primarily creative nonfiction, Roxane Gay tackles fiction in her debut novel An Untamed State, about a Haitian-American woman, Mireille (Miri) Duval Jameson, who is kidnapped for ransom and brutalized for thirteen days as her diplomat father struggles to get her back at a fair price. The problem is, there is no getting her back—at least […]

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Susan Straight, Author

May 27, 2015/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2015 / interviewed by Diana Greenwood

I recently interviewed Susan Straight on the telephone. During the first session, my recording software failed just as my two-year-old son woke up howling from an unusually short nap. A tired and hungry toddler is like an escaped rhinoceros; I have not quite worked out the glitches of single motherhood. Graciously, Susan allowed me to […]

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Ayesha’s Dream

May 27, 2015/in Summer-Fall 2015, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Ed Taylor

Listen. . . On a velvety night in a desert land, a cool wind moved among dunes and glided into a small village. The curious wind lifted the long limbs of the date palm trees, touched the donkey’s fur in the stable, and poked through the open window of Ayesha’s room in her family’s house. […]

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Myth: Mixed Media

May 27, 2015/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Nicole Foran
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The House on Tator Hill

May 27, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Cassie Pruyn

All night the wind strummed the shingles, while I slept with my jaw like a fist. She wanted sex first thing in the morning to the rhythm of the percolator’s clicks. Her aunt had a real Chagall hanging over the piano. She stocked the freezer with Grey Goose, then traveled for months. We claimed the […]

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Secrets from the Underworld

May 27, 2015/in Summer-Fall 2015, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Melissa Ostrom

The living room is bleached with a raw November light. I sidestep along a pristine white wall, past three perfectly aligned matted prints of geometric shapes, to the gleaming bookcase and consider the alphabetically organized books, all nonfiction. I keep my hands to myself. On Tuesday, Dad’s friend, Brett, lost his uncle, and fifteen minutes […]

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What can I tell you (an Ars Poetica)

May 27, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Roberto Garcia

What can I tell you? I confess from you I learned sweat is poison as well as nectar, & there is no good word for how I linger as you exhale. I confess I am a cracked mirror, & you are a stone, a bird, starlight tickling the fractures. From you I learned jilting doesn’t require […]

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Some Lines of Feeling 

May 27, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Karyl Anne Geary

“Autumn―that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness―that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion   The oppressive, heavy, humid heat of another climate change Ohio Valley River summer makes way for […]

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I’m Beautiful

May 27, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Damyanti Ghosh

[flash fiction] Darkness slow and deep, quiet, still, unmoving, unbreathing in a dark, sugary sleep: no pain, no joy, no sight, no sound, no taste, I remain floating, distant. I shall not wake up. I shall stay in this cotton-wool world, its soft-sleepy music lifting me up through the roof, through the banisters, the rooms […]

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Pools, Crabs, and Wikipedia

May 27, 2015/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Benjamin Thompson

The pool stayed the same for most of the year. Just a few meters from the beach. The waves came in far enough, breaking across the sand into the tangle of mangrove trees and long grasses, to give it just enough water to stay level with the well-padded trail that led from the small Honduran […]

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Change: Watercolor Paintings

May 26, 2015/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Alvaro Naddeo
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The Egypt of Mary’s Womb

May 26, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Patrick Hansel

A small town.  A back door. A young woman at her work chopping, searing, holding. A flash, not so much of light, as the chorus of sight that light trails as it passes by.  A strange word, an aspiration, a slight bow of the head, a warm wrapping of wings. There will be lions, later. […]

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A Map of Jerusalem

May 26, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Ellen Goldstein

For years my face and name were a message I didn’t know I was sending. In kindergarten, our teacher gave my classmate Daniel and me blue and white construction paper to make cards for our family when everyone else got red and green. I knew this was because we were both Jewish, but my mother […]

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We’re So Lucky

May 26, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Shasta Grant

[flash fiction] She likes her son best when he’s sleeping. At night, she sneaks into his bedroom, sits on the edge of his twin-size bed and watches his little chest rise and fall below the sheet. She places her lips on his temple and kisses him softly. It’s one of the few moments in the […]

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Within the Walls: Photography & Mixed Media

May 25, 2015/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Nina Ramadan
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The Persistence of Wolves

May 25, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Fabienne Josaphat

I Stillness in the mountains, in the way the mist clings, eternal, like suspended cobwebs on the prickly pine needles and limbs of green guavas, in the way the mountains curve like the rolling hips of the women hiking red dirt clearings far away. They’re balancing bread in baskets atop their tightly turbaned hair. Time, […]

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The Known Unknowns

May 25, 2015/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Gabriel Houck

[flash fiction] 1. What do we know about her, a retired social worker, wife to a stubborn sonofabitch who refused to evacuate when the big one finally came? What does it say about the sonofabitch that he teaches conservation law, that his eyebrows go untrimmed, that he jogs in day-glo short-shorts each evening along the […]

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Centerpiece

May 25, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Grace Mattern

Days were short and buckled, the dinner to prepare, our table to set, cream and tan plumage to fan in a gold-rimmed goblet, hint of flight.  Together we hunted wild turkey feathers, tracked hay fields where flocks lumbered in summer, walked a trail over to the next road, followed it past the last house as […]

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Selected Works: Oil Paintings

May 24, 2015/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Nicole Trimble
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Dispatch from Liberty Ave.  

May 24, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Timothy Maddocks

Pittsburgh, PA— It’s another day: not a sale, not a bite, not a solid, single look-e-loo. So I stand alone at the window and watch the old men walk in a stiff and stony parade up and down the avenue past my post at the East End Book Exchange. I count the ways to be an old man: to rein […]

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When You Ask Me to Describe the Grief

May 24, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Amanda Oaks

 (after Clementine von Radics) I open my mouth & nothing comes out—I think, chest caving in, robber of breath, thunderbolted knees hitting the bathroom floor but it felt more like tumbling down a staircase into the basement of a heart that no longer relays rhythm, my shoveled out stomach— a hearse, a grave, a place […]

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Recent Work: Mixed Media Sculpture

May 23, 2015/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Jere Williams
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Classy

May 23, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Jim Ross

I’m particular about my gym wear. To illustrate, my socks must be white or a shade approximating my skin tone. I call the shade “nude.” Crayola misguidedly called it “flesh.” After a torturous day’s work, I reached the Y desperately in need of a stress-defusing workout. Too bad I’d forgotten to bring allowably-colored socks. I hadn’t time to run home […]

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Post-Reunion

May 23, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Suzanne Parker

I drive my mother home because the train is late, because her hands shake, because my brother doing push-ups after he lost a bet had all of us fearing the explosion in his chest and what are family reunions for? Food.  Too much wine.  A kickball in the gut. When I pulled the folding chair […]

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Baltimore is Burning

May 22, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Ronnie K. Stephens

and my students don’t know a thing about it Ronnie K. Stephens is a full-time English teacher and the father of identical twins. His first full-length collection, Universe in the Key of Matryoshka, was published by Timber Mouse Publishing in 2014.

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Noctiputations

May 21, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Doc Suds

Three a.m., and night is an oil spill seeped down to the benthic zone. The way a man-of-war is simultaneously individual and colony, I am wide-awake and exhausted. My head, sunken into the pillow, fills with ideas, insights, plans, and epiphanies like the gold coins and suits of armor stuffed inside a seafloored shipwreck. I […]

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Tracing Wrist Scars

May 20, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Jeanann Verlee

I used to keep exquisite potted plants. Now, just pots of dirt. My friend Meghann keeps pots of dirt. One with a ceramic hand creeping out, another, a foot. Funny, the things we covet. I only learned to begin wanting again recently. I don’t know where to place my wants. How to justify them, or […]

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Denouement

May 19, 2015/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2015 / by John Sibley Williams

Prayer flags heave like healthy lungs beneath a five colored sheet. Wind is implied. Or breath. Healing. But definitely movement. All the weightless things around us convulse into terrible ghosted forms, then return to their tenacious dangling. The world ages at the rate we expect it to. We are not so fortunate as cricket legs […]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

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Where Are You From?

August 5, 2022/in Blog / Majella Pinto
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The Old Folks’ Home

July 22, 2022/in Blog / Karen Gaul Schulman
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Peace, Love, and a lot of Loud Rock & Roll

June 17, 2022/in A Transfer, Blog / Sunee Lyn Foley
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QVC-land

May 6, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / D. E. Hardy
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Escape Artists at the End of the World

April 29, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Lisa Levy
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The House in the Middle

April 15, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

My Mother’s Hands

August 8, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Annie Marhefka
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Defy Gravity

August 1, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Megan Peck
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Little Shrimp

July 25, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Karen Poppy
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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 variety in this issue speaks not only to the eclectic world we inhabit but to the power of the human spirit. We live in an uncertain world. In the U.S., we’re seeing mass shootings daily. Across the world, we’re still very much in a pandemic, some being trapped in their homes for weeks on end, others struggling to stay alive in hospitals. War continues to wage in Ukraine. Iran and North Korea are working diligently to make nuclear weapons. The list goes on. Still, we have artists who are willing and able to be vulnerable with one another, to share stories and art to help us try and make sense of our world.

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