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Word From the Editor

June 16, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Katelyn Keating, Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

“Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old,” wrote Brian Doyle in “Joyas Voladoras.” His recent death […]

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Matt de la Peña, Author

May 24, 2017/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2017 / Interviewed by Kim Sabin

During Antioch’s June 2016 residency, my mentor suggested I pick up a copy of Matt de la Peña’s Newbery Medal-winning picture book, Last Stop on Market Street, to explore the effective use of diversity in children’s literature. When I returned home to Arizona, I not only picked up a copy of de la Peña’s book, […]

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Natashia Deón, Author

May 23, 2017/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2017 / Interviewed by Judy Gitterman

Natashia Deón is a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee. The New York Times and Kirkus Review named Deón’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Grace, a Best Book of 2016. She is a practicing attorney and law professor, and creator of the popular LA-based reading series, Dirty Laundry Lit. Her works have appeared in American Short Fiction, Buzzfeed, LA Review of Books, The Rumpus, and other places. Deón is the […]

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Weekend Work Program

May 23, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Caesar Kent

We cannot tell these Sunday drivers that we have already faced judgment, that we’ve pled no contest to our sins, that we are only lesser criminals, serving a softer version of hard time. Their looks could never be as harsh as handcuffs and a hangover on the hard benches of a holding cell. We are […]

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Katrina Dodson, Author & Translator

May 22, 2017/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2017 / Interviewed by Lauren Kinney

I get so tired out by the need to defend literature’s usefulness in terms of these measurable, moral and productive terms. Obviously this is important for humanity, thinking about our own interior experiences and how they bump up against other people’s interior and exterior experiences, so I always feel tired out by the weak position of literature and always having to defend it in this capitalist society, or usefulness-driven society. …

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Journey to Iraq 1 (I try to visit in my dreams and am stopped on the tarmac)

May 22, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Noor Al-Samarrai

in the dream that got me fired The plane was just a stomach, really. I said, “eat me” It insisted on retching and language was like dry bread cu-clut-clawing at my throat. clog glug we could just say it was the fault of the Security Clearance, oh that agency is in the blood now, lineage […]

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Out of Houston

May 22, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Cathleen Calbert

When I think back to that bar in Houston, the one that offered us mahogany and beveled glass and a brief reprieve from our hot, damp lives, I can still see Lynda and me: my blue-jean jacket, her skeleton earrings. We’ve swiveled onto our stools, and she’s paid for our drinks. She is laughing, leaning […]

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Mythic City: Oil Paintings

May 21, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by James Deeb
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Dara Hyde, Literary Agent

May 21, 2017/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2017 / Interviewed by Emma Margraf

Dara Hyde loves books. After a decade as an editor and rights and permissions manager at the independent publisher Grove Atlantic in New York, Hyde moved to Los Angeles to become an agent at Hill Nadell. Hyde represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including young adult, genre fiction, graphic novels, narrative nonfiction, and […]

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Mapping Coordinates of Poor, Queer, and Feminine in the High Desert Air

May 21, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Sossity Chiricuzio

Every bit of pride her life doesn’t allow for her own sturdy beauty is poured into that chestnut coat, that black horsehair. One afternoon just three days before show-time, her father saunters into the house, swinging a large, rusty pair of shears. “Spring haircut…” he drawls, and she’s already out the door, running for the stable. …

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An Eon of Thirsts

May 21, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Translation, Translation / by Abdul Hameed Adam, translated by Ajit S. Dutta

My haunt my drinking place was there, lit by a moon I was not there. My intoxication personified, was there Not I. On the slippery slope to that bar, lips craving wine I was not there An eon of thirsts tottering, was there Not I.     Maikada mai-kada thā chāñdnī thī maiñ na thā […]

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The First Checkup After My Mother Died

May 21, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

The doctor noticed me fidgeting with my ears like a toddler, and asked if he could look at them. Yes, I told him, they had been bothering me, and I didn’t know why. After the examination, he asked if I had been through something traumatic recently— a breakup, or a loss of a job. Yes, […]

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The Garden Collection: Acrylic Paintings

May 20, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Christian Gabriel
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The Day We Buried My Father

May 20, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Guy Choate

On the day of my father’s funeral, I wake up in a twin bed at his house. Liz is still asleep in the identical twin bed across the room. Dad and Penny bought these beds for Caroline and Cate, my nieces, but as usual, we make accommodations that negate the previous accommodations we’ve made for […]

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Tara Ison, Author

May 20, 2017/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2017 / Interviewed by Melissa Benton Barker

I read Tara Ison’s first novel, A Child Out of Alcatraz, shortly after its publication in 1997. I’d spent a good chunk of my own adolescence in San Francisco living in Fort Mason while my father was stationed at Oakland Army Base, across the East Bay. At the time, Fort Mason was a smattering of […]

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She Is a Battleground

May 20, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Nancy Au

Twelve-year-old butter boys face the old Chinese woman they call Baboochka. Imagine: the eighty-year-old woman on their apartment’s shared front stoop, the silver moon caught in her tousled hair, her yellow sweater vest, her milky-white Velcro E-Z Steppers. She jostles grocery bags from one hip to the other as she digs in her pockets for keys. She grumbles about the checker at the vegetable market pocketing her change, about her arthritic fingers too weak to open jars but too strong for the wet lettuce bag, about the bus driver that did not hear her call out for a stop. …

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Excerpt from The Very Troubling Confession of the Man Who Took Down the Greatest Son of a Bitch the Earth has Borne*

May 20, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Translation, Translation / by Emmanuel Adely, translated by Tiffane Levick

© Éditions Inculte (2014) *or who shot him first or who shot him second or who is the first to have seen him dead or who is the one who in the helicopter sat on his body or who made it all up to have a story to tell   Based on real facts and […]

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Bombs Bursting

May 20, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Katie Avagliano

She loved the theater despite its flaws: the faded carpets and cracked poster frames, its lack of a curtain call. She clutched broom and dustpan and strained to hear the happenings in the dark room. Sometimes people clapped at the end, and she could pretend winter had passed and spring had come and she was […]

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Find Your Happy Place

May 20, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Celeste Hamilton Dennis

It was Father’s Day and Maeve was in Friendly’s. After all this time, she was still a sucker for a Conehead. She and her father had spent countless hours here scarfing down the clown-faced sundae with whipped cream for hair and Reese’s Pieces for eyes when Maeve was a child growing up in Levittown. They […]

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Fady Joudah, Poet

May 19, 2017/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2017 / Interviewed by Doni Shepard

Fady Joudah was born in Austin, Texas to Palestinian refugee parents. He spent time growing up in both Libya and Saudi Arabia, and returned to the United States to complete his medical education. He currently works as a professional physician in Houston, Texas. Joudah is the author of three original works: The Earth in the […]

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Sleight of Hand

May 19, 2017/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Stephen Baily

[fiction] You’re walking home from Chester Park Elementary School, where you have the happiness of being in the sixth grade. As you’re passing the windowless flank of a multistory parking garage, a four-eyed classmate of yours named Dresner steps out of the doorway he’s been skulking in. —Check this out. The small volume he produces […]

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Spatial Awareness: Digital Collages

May 19, 2017/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2017 / by hueydotnewton
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Food Truck Rodeo

May 19, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Morgan Coyner

As the credits roll on the theater screen, I check my phone. Eleven thirty-four p.m., still too many hours until morning. Dad left for work a few hours ago. He’s working nights at the hospital this week. I make a list in my mind of things I can do tonight to pass the time. Read. […]

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Big Ball of String Theory

May 19, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Linnea Wortham Harper

Yoo-hoo! I’m back here, in the bedroom, in the bed. I’m seventeen, I’m twenty-two, I’m thirty-seven, fifty. I dress in white and lie here. Let’s just say it’s mono, or Some Disease, the lazies, or the dreads. Let’s just say I never learned to spell élan vitale right. Let’s just say I should be dead. […]

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Swallow / Swallowed / Swallowing & Masturbating to Greek Myths

May 19, 2017/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2017 / by torrin a. greathouse

Swallow / Swallowed / Swallowing swal·low | noun 1. a small oscine bird with a short bill, long pointed wings, & a deeply forked tail, which feeds on insects caught on the wing. swal·low | verb 1.  to take or receive through the mouth & esophagus into the stomach. 2.  to accept without question, protest, […]

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Success Avenue

May 19, 2017/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Jessica Forcier

That night, I’d just opened all the windows in the living room and collapsed on the sofa. My husband was sitting out on our stoop, listening to the oldies station too loud. I took my first sip of coffee when I heard Sammy talking to someone. “Yeah, go on in,” he said, and the screen […]

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Friends of Friends

May 18, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Translation, Translation / by Fabrizio Coscia, translated by Emma Mandley

Violet and Sydney Schiff were an extremely sophisticated English couple, rich, cultured and cosmopolitan, who moved between London and Paris. He was a translator and writer, using the pseudonym Stephen Hudson, but first and foremost he was a patron of the arts, on friendly terms with Modernism’s greatest talents. She was an elegant and captivating […]

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Geeta Kothari, Author

May 18, 2017/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2017 / Interviewed by Meredith Arena

In December 2017, I met with Geeta Kothari to discuss her work as a writer and as the nonfiction editor of the Kenyon Review. In February of this year, Geeta’s collection, I Brake for Moose and Other Stories, was published; she was also the editor of Did My Mama Like to Dance?: And Other Stories […]

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Margo Jefferson, Author of Negroland

May 18, 2017/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Angela Bullock

I met Margo Jefferson on a February afternoon in 2017, in New York City’s West Village. We sat in a café to discuss her latest book, Negroland, the winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. The memoir blends the author’s personal narrative with the history of America’s historical black elite. Jefferson, […]

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A Map for Roadkill

May 18, 2017/in Summer-Fall 2017, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Anjali Enjeti

A whirring, choking noise, like a spoon caught in a garbage disposal, erupts from my John Deere. I cut the engine, pull back. A half-chewed bone protrudes from a mound of Georgia red clay. At least it’s not a pile of dried dog shit. When that stuff gets up in the blades it spews out […]

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Friday Lunch Blog

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

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How to Kill a Cat, or How to Prepare for CATastrophe

March 10, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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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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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Point Break & Top Gun Are More Than Homoerotic Action Movies

March 3, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Michaela Emerson
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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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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

On Such a Full Sea Are We Now

March 17, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Jemma Leigh Roe
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The Russian Train

February 24, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Cammy Thomas
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Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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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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