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Bob’s Bass Turd

December 5, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2021 / C. Christine Fair

He couldn’t cut straight. Hell, he couldn’t even fold the damned paper properly. He even managed to get glue all over his glasses, which resembled boogers streaking across both lenses. While I was annoyed with him, I was even more jealous. I wanted a dad too.[…]

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A Message from The Article You Shared on Facebook That Nobody Read

October 2, 2020/in Blog, Summer-Fall 2020 / Shannon C.F. Rogers

Thanks for posting me. At least you know someone (probably) read the headline. Maybe they even read the first few lines of text that appear beneath the thumbnail image, or the pull quotes. […]

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They Hate If You’re Clever and Despise the Fool

July 31, 2020/in Blog, Summer-Fall 2020 / Stephanie Teasley

It hit 120℉—122℉ in fact—a few weeks ago in my desert town. The days before and after weren’t much better: 116℉, and then 119℉, respectively. While these types are unheard of, we don’t typically see them until the dead of August for a couple of days.

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In the Dark

June 14, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Louisa Armbrust

We live in a world that strives to consume the entirety of our time and attention. Work, play, social media, and the 24/7 news cycle cry out for our attention at all hours of the day and night. Our ability to seek refuge in a place where all that can be ignored, turned off, and tuned out is vital to our very self-preservation.[…]

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Word From the Editor

June 13, 2020/in Essays, Summer-Fall 2020, Word From the Editor / Loumarie I Rodriguez
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Panama, whether in the Pacific or the Atlantic, and other poems

June 13, 2020/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2020 / Javier Alvarado and Lucía Estrada, translated by Russell Karrick

Panama, on this street and in this time we’re missing, Before my days and nights (And from this poem) oscillating like water between lilies, With its fortified walls and buildings[…]

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Recipe for Dream Deferred Jambalaya after Langston Hughes / Swimming Lessons

June 13, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Ariana Benson
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How to Skin a Fox

June 13, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Kelly Gray

Small circles of blood blossom. The water turns pink. With a quick breath she is all girl again, using her hands to feel the bottom of the tub. It is filled with shattered glass and her legs are bleeding. […]

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Ash Wednesday

June 13, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Janet Albaugh

Looking down at the little lump of ashes in the crease of the sports page, I wet my finger in my mouth, touched it to the ashes and put it on my tongue.[…]

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Jen Brody and Jules Rivera, Authors

June 13, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Adrien Kade Sdao

In terms of isolation, I try to counteract that by building community, which I’ve done from the beginning, and by collaborating pretty heavily on a lot of projects.[…]

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Acabando Nos Vamos

June 13, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Noel Becerra

The personas we apply to the occupations that we take for granted everyday are inseparable from the job itself because of our own indolence towards learning anything different. This series pairs the two perspectives that represent how Latinos are traditionally characterized[…]

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BATALHA DA PRAÇA DA SÉ, 1934 / LETTER TO THE CENSOR, 1939

June 13, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Paula Abramo, translated by Dick Cluster

The guns sing a carmine joy incarnate—note how, here, two figures of speech live in peaceful coexistence to narrate an epic event.[…]

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On Twerking and Writing

June 13, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Rois M. Beal

As anyone who has ever heard a black comic perform or listened to a rap song knows, we don’t do
humblebragging. When you are the bomb, you simply say so.[…]

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Ambiguity

June 12, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Storey Clayton

So, if I feel so alienated from gender, why should it be such a determining factor in who I would like? I can’t imagine making any woman who likes men happy. Wouldn’t we all be better off just liking everyone?[…]

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Shedding

June 12, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Karen Bowers

Six filaments from my clenched fist end up in the wastebasket. The tease and tug are pushing obsession buttons. I react to phantom touches, swipe, and come away with nothing. Repeat.[…]

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A PAIR OF PARROTS COME IN FOR SURGERY

June 12, 2020/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2020 / Ian Cappelli

not subtlety, and at sundown begin moaning. The veterinarians act more veterinarianly. It must be internal damage. It must be the liver rupturing. Yes, the liver. And that is how these prognoses tend. Diagnosis being […]

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Forgetting My Mother

June 12, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Barbara Bedin, translated by Rachele Salvini

Now she can’t do anything anymore, so, when I visit her, I tell her to prepare the salad, just to kill time. She peels away the bad leaves, and I tell her, “Throw them away and leave the good ones.” She starts, but then she forgets, so we eat the rotten salad and we mix it with curcuma and balsamic vinaigrette to cover the bad taste.[…]

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Victoria Chang, Author, Poet, MFA Program Chair

June 12, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Janet Rodriguez

No one ever tells you, “Dying can be pretty hideous.” I don’t know if it’s because that sort of fear of dying oneself, you know? If you think too much about it, it can be scary. I think about it all the time, but that’s because I’ve lived it, and it was around me all the time.[…]

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Sympathy for Wild Girls

June 12, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Demree McGhee

Between the slurred lisp of her words, Daisy’s mother starts to whisper to her about dead girls. It starts off as a trickle of information, gossipy fascination over the feral, invited by a story on the news or something that her mother heard on the radio while driving […]

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Amber Estes Thieneman

Untitled Selections From L’Adolescence

June 11, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller

And when the night draws its celebrations to a close, the hares undress all alone, sexes smeared from long storms. Perhaps we’ve forgotten that the body, yes the body, finds a desolate kind of beauty once exposed […]

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Monstera Deliciosa Variegata: Grief and the Search for a Rare Houseplant

June 11, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Sarah Hoenicke

My feelings didn’t shift, but my body did. I knelt beside you on our bed and brought your head to my shoulder. I repeated her message. But you already knew. You had seen my face change.[…]

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Casual Contact

June 11, 2020/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2020 / Alfred Fournier

Flying for business, I was sitting in a window seat with earbuds and a book when a young woman next to me reclined her seat. Leaning back to get comfortable, she placed her ankle over mine and proceeded to fall asleep […]

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Fault Lines

June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Thomas Pia

I had only seen them once. They’d probably escaped from a botanical garden or perhaps that tree had just been a stop on a journey circumnavigating countries, maybe even continents. […]

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Vulnerability Has No Boundaries

June 11, 2020/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2020 / Jakki Daley

Within this project I have conveyed this through the color, lighting, clarity, and positioning in the images. These images are meant to have meaning, as well as have thoughts projected upon them by the viewer not dependent upon words or timeframe.[…]

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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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Alexander Chee, Author

June 11, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Michael Sellar

There’s this belief that if you apply enough technique in all these different ways, that you will end up with a novel. Technique is not everything. There’s a lot to recommend it, but the spark of life is something that the reader feels through the writer, and the writer has to feel it first.[…]

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Jouma

June 11, 2020/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2020 / Dor Shilton

Jouma nodded calmly, then got to his feet, excused himself and left the tent, his sons and entourage following in his steps. Today was the wedding of one of his sons, and the festivities could be heard from afar.[…]

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Genevieve Hudson, Author

June 10, 2020/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2020 / Interviewed by Louise Rozett

Genevieve Hudson is, both, grounded and a force of nature. She is wise beyond her years, genuine, insightful, and fierce, with a hint of ineffable magic. This special alchemy infuses her teaching, enabling her to engage students on a technical and emotional level simultaneously, meeting everyone exactly where they are while encouraging expansion and elevation […]

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A Life in Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Forty Songs

June 10, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Pat Hulsebosch

The small FedEx box arrived in DC bearing an unlikely return address: Peter C. Hulsebosch III, Houston, TX. Surely this wasn’t from my brother, the brother who’d once told me he would never send a card, much less a gift, because then I’d get used to it […]

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The Doll’s House / Let’s go! To Paris not to live, but to die / No Need to Savor Youth

June 10, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Na Hye-Sok, translated by Tanya Ko Hong

Blame me not, but society, morals, laws, and customs Your mother as a pioneer was a martyr of destiny Someday you may come as ambassadors to Paris Find my grave, leave one flower for me[…]

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Friday Lunch Blog

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

Today’s course:

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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