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Dearth

May 25, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Audrey T. Carroll

Audrey T. Carroll is a Queens, NYC native whose obsessions include kittens, coffee, Supernatural, Buffy, and the Rooster Teeth community. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Fiction International, So to Speak, Feminine Inquiry, the A3 Review, and others. Her poetry collection, Queen of Pentacles, is forthcoming from Choose the Sword Press. She […]

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Matriarchal

May 24, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Jennifer Seaman Cook

We wake again pleading for the last time, a forked tongue once lost between planetary failures. Their rotation had become dangerous like birthing hips on the move, either circled in naked light, or coiling an orbit around the throat of some dark diviner’s rabbit. Anti-gravity had taken its unsteered toll, the air having long been […]

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To Hildegard

May 23, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Renee Emerson

The tenth child, your parents gave you to the church as tithe; I don’t know if I would do the same had I ten, twenty, a hundred to my name. In our church, the young families have begun to foster local children, taken from mothers who are high, forgetful, taken from days spent strapped in […]

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Aturdido

May 22, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Robert Esnard

There is a black and white photo of El Capitolio on the wall of Abuelo’s house. Its icy frame catches the golden dust in the kitchen air, appearing Pardo. There is no such term in English. He tells me of the colors like a dream. Suddenly, I am ten again, learning Spanish and shame, drowning. […]

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My Mother’s Mouth, A Gift Horse

May 21, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Tamara Hart

Father glowers into her mouth— a drain, clogged with leftovers, a dirty sun. Lays his fork down, swallows mashed potatoes like they’re whole. Her mouth, which never stays closed, happily churns herring morsels and syllables into viscous mounds that morph whole sentences into crowds, spilling in and out of a rush hour train until nobody’s […]

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Archaeology of Silence

May 20, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Brad Johnson

Can we assume the bald man dresses himself in a skin-colored turtleneck to intentionally resemble a phallus or must he announce he’s studied Freud? When she suggests I think outside the box I respond that saying think outside the box is an example of thinking inside the box. She looks at me like I’m French-Canadian, […]

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Content is a glimpse

May 20, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by David Kann

Content is a glimpse +++++Willem de Kooning +++++We look at the world once, in childhood. +++++The rest is memory. ++++++++++Louise Glück 1. Cóntent is a Glimpse Trapped in the dream of wisdom birthed out of the deep desire for a magisterial eye’s +++++deific “I am” fantasy of a scalpel-sharp panoptical glimpse, itself at war with […]

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Mercury Diner

May 18, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Michael Lauchlan

She sits over coffee until it goes cold and I dump it and pour new. I get her to take a bowl of soup sometimes, which may be all she eats. She doesn’t look bad, considering. She can’t hear much. Sometimes she writes to a daughter out West, but mostly she’s deep in a book […]

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Cassandra

May 17, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / Erin Lynn

Brother, your body is a spit-pig, a split trunk of light-struck oak. They will quarter your meat, deny you Styx. In coinless eyes I’ve seen the thugs who come to stuff themselves in our scared spaces, the waves of snails that stick horrible to our shores. My tongue tied with limestone, I cannot stop it. […]

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The Sound

May 16, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Steve Mueske

He follows you into the woods as always, staying within reach of a stray touch: out of habit, yes, and because there’s no reason to believe this day will end any differently than others. Were he to know the spade’s grim purpose—blade laced with rust, old earth— he might plea for the earned mercy of […]

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Selenographer

May 15, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Triin Paja

i. your desire for the moon holds the weight of a steam-powered whaling ship. it is why we braid wreaths for the cows, why the light after dusk behaves like startled deer. when the moon’s lamb-face appears through the forest’s mane, your skin begins to bloom, mantling me in its petals. a memory lets go […]

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The Jaguar / About Writing / Spell to Ward Off Fear of La Catrina

May 14, 2016/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Alejandro Saravia, translated by María José Giménez

The Jaguar I am leaving the earth with a jaguar in my hand a jaguar that carries a heart in its hand in the silent looms of Mitla the Mexican night grows like sharing bread with a brother I let the jaguar eat my heart jaguar with heart in its hand   About Writing this […]

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The Horseshoe Finder / The age / January 1, 1924

May 14, 2016/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Ian Probstein

The Horseshoe Finder              (A Pindaric fragment) We look at a forest and say: +++— Here is timber for ships and masts, Rosy pines, Free of hairy burden to their very tops, They should screech in the storm As lonely pines In a raging forestless air; The plumb-line fastened firmly to the dancing deck will […]

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Listen:

May 14, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Clare Paniccia

This is the sound of drunkenness held +++++on the last twilit gunshot. The sound ++++++++++of your voice carrying from the flat lawn +++++and up past the sleeping baby, past ++++++++++the boys whose ears have tuned ++++++++++to this semblance of fury. +++++Tonight, Texas folds itself down +++++into the hollow of your throat and nestles there ++++++++++++++++its […]

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Daniel José Older, Author of Shadowshaper

May 14, 2016/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Alex Simand

Daniel José Older is the type of writer many of us writers aspire to be—careful, intentional, eminently aware of the ecosystems that produce literary work in our society, and the role this work plays in the context of a predominantly white narrative. His Twitter following is large (sitting at over 22k followers), both because of […]

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Symphony in Gray Major

May 14, 2016/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Rubén Darío, translated by Mark Stevick

The sea like a coarse mirror of silver reflects a metallic sky of zinc; distant flocks of cormorants tarnish its polished bottom of pallid gray. The sun like a glass, round and opaque, paces to its zenith with a halting gait; the ocean breezes settle in the shadow making a pillow of a black clarinet. […]

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Where the Heart Is

May 13, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Brad Rose

I’m driving through your neighborhood. It’s quiet and lonely, like a summer lake without a boat. In the air, white silk light, slow as milk. I can see through the houses. They’re more than themselves, like a minuend before the subtraction of the subtrahend. My thought music points me north. I’ve forgotten one of my […]

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Daughter I Bleed

May 12, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Kristen Rouisse
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Placeholder: Waiting for the Biopsy Results

May 11, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Wendy Mannis Scher

The naked woman in the video I study—double mastectomy—tosses me into possibility, presses the soft muscle of what remains of self against self, sternum and rib shucked clean by surgical steel.  She stands sculpted, a torso hewn to scarred catastrophe— emptied parentheses.  The Mayans called it zero, this mussel shell emptied of its muscle set […]

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How the word poem shows up in my audio text messages

May 10, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Ellen Stone

I say poem, the phone hears problem. Maze, no escape. Driving with my mother in a manic state. The sharpness of her no. Telling it like it is. She says “Crazy!” trying to explain. Unanswerable strangeness of the human brain. Equations, undoable. How to keep sane the status she wants to return to. I say […]

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Karma*

May 9, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by George Such

We squat unbroken, faces toward the earth, feet on the shoulders of the one below us, fingers covering their eyes as we cup their heads between our palms, as if reading their minds, feeling the weight of others on our backs, their warm hands blocking our sight, generations of shiny bodies stacked like vertebrae pierce […]

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On Missing

May 8, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Melissa Watt

I could play the guitar just barely and I would try when we’d arrive home all liquor dilated, hearts more capable of loving. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing that lights me up like this once did. The magic in my life is quieter now, but grace, once parsimonious, now crackles through my […]

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The Sewing Machine’s Text: Mixed Media

May 8, 2016/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2016 / Mixed Media by Elena Berriolo
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At the End of Hope

May 7, 2016/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Jesi Bender

[flash creative nonfiction] Every once in a while, I dream of the impending apocalypse. I dream that I am watching it swallow Manhattan from the shores of Brooklyn—a transmogrified landscape where the outline seems more distant but provides an uninterrupted view from a row of dilapidated brownstones and the “beach” of Kent Ave. No fences, […]

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A Stop Sign Worn as a Helmet

May 7, 2016/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Anton Yakovlev

I He cared for her whimsy and for the way her shyness played out. At some gotcha point, in the negative spaces of photos spotted at some exhibition downtown, he started to imagine her silhouette, her T-shirt a burst of yellow competing with Cape Cod pelicans and stealthily-erected Jotunheimen high-rises. She confided in him like […]

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Elvis Has Left the Building

May 7, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Eric Day

The second I escaped high school, I went to work at my father’s full-line music store in the little corner hovel called the M.I. department, which stood for Musical Instruments. There wasn’t much to do but restock the clarinet reeds and trombone grease, make sure the ¼-size violins had bows in their cases, and dust […]

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The Day

May 7, 2016/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Timothy Caldwell

“Come on, Daddy. Wake up! It’s time for our Saturday walk.” “Okay, okay, I’m waking up.” He opens his eyes expecting to see a child, but the sunlit room is empty. Where is he? He sits up, puts his feet on the floor, then looks around. Nothing looks familiar. Not right. Name things. Start naming. […]

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Fragile Rat

May 7, 2016/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Nichole L. Reber

Sharlotte walked into the A.A. meeting just as the Arizona sunset was throwing peach and orange colors on the walls of the cheap commercial space. A loose, dingy white T-shirt barely concealed the inner tube of weight she’d gained from a cocktail of psychotropics. Her thin, unwashed hair looked like an animal pelt pasted onto […]

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The Streetlamp

May 7, 2016/in Summer-Fall 2016, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Gretchen Adams

That was one of my favorite parts of it all—of Allie and me being friends, I mean—sitting there in her passenger seat, with the streetlamp on my neighbor’s lawn glowing in on us through the dashboard, the night’s playlist soft in the background. I liked when I could just barely see her, except for her […]

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My Wife / Ma Femme

May 7, 2016/in Summer-Fall 2016, Translation, Translation / by Guy De Maupassant, translated by Beatrice Bridglall

My Wife It was at the end of a dinner of men, married men, old friends who get together sometimes without their wives, boys as in the past. They would eat a long time; they would drink a lot; they would speak of everything. Old and youthful memories would move them; those warm memories that […]

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

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The Night I Want to Remember

December 16, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi
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From Paper to the Page

November 18, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Annie Bartos
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Confessions of a Birthday Person

November 4, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Mending the Heart and Slowing Down: Reintroducing Myself to Mexican Cooking

October 7, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages
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Abyssinia

August 26, 2022/in Midnight Snack / JP Goggin
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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Litdish: Writing About Grief: An Interview with Jenn Koiter

October 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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Dawn from Buffy Learns About Climate Change

October 10, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
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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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