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Summer/Fall 2021, Issue 19

That which has yet to emerge

Word from the Editor

June 15, 2021/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2021, Word From the Editor / Regan Humphrey

It gives me great pleasure to introduce Lunch Ticket’s 19th Issue, themed That Which Has Yet to Emerge. This issue is nothing if not a reflection of our strange and unprecedented times. At the end of 2021’s first act—this June intermission, if you will—we present to you a collection of work that brings hope, humor, seriousness, and solidarity to a moment we have never experienced before.

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Laura Buccieri

Publicity, Inclusivity, and Parasite: An Interview with Laura Buccieri

June 12, 2021/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Nicholas Galvez

Laura Buccieri is the Director of Publicity at Copper Canyon Press. During the December 2020 Antioch MFA residency, Laura gave a seminar on poetry and publicity. I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak with Laura over Zoom about her writing, her career in the publishing industry, and the film Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho.[…]

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Elizabeth DeMeo

On Publishing with a Small Press: An Interview with Elizabeth DeMeo

June 10, 2021/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Erica Colón
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Tananarive Due

On Novels and Screenplays, Character Tropes, and Black Horror: An Interview with Tananarive Due

June 9, 2021/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Barbara Platts
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Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

On Writing, Politics, and Imposter Syndrome: An Interview with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

June 9, 2021/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Erica Colón

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman wanted to be a professional violinist when she was a child, and in a way she kind of got her wish. Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and named a Best Book of 2019 by Amazon, details Hindman’s life as the violinist in an orchestra whose performances pantomimed playing instruments to recorded music. Music that, yes, sounded vaguely like the soundtrack to Titanic. Hindman’s memoir recounts her time traveling with the orchestra in the early 2000s, a time of political turmoil that resonates with the early 2020s.

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Julia Kardon

Agencies, Crosswords, and Diversity In Publishing: An Interview with Julia Kardon

June 7, 2021/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Nicholas Galvez

Julia Kardon is an agent at HG Literary who began her career in high school while shelving fiction at the Strand Bookstore. She received degrees in comparative literature as well as Slavic languages and literature at the University of Chicago and has used her experiences to help forge a path as an agent and, occasionally, as a crossword puzzle maker. She is the cofounder of Inkluded, Inc., an independent nonprofit organization that provides tuition-free publishing education. Julia Kardon is a loyal advocate for those she represents.[…]

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Family, Trauma, and Life as Writers: An Interview with Kate Maruyama and Andromeda Romano-Lax

June 7, 2021/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Nicholas Galvez
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Rachel Zucker

Everybody is a Storyteller: an Interview with Rachel Zucker

June 5, 2021/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2021 / Interviewed by Barbara Platts
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Sweet Blue

May 23, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Robbie Gamble

On this tepid day
while the COVID clock ticks past
one-hundred-eighty-thousand casualties
we are digging shallow holes
into a Vermont hillside to lay down a line
of low-bush blueberries [. . .]

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childhood dogs

May 22, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Hyun-Joo Kim

no one can remember who
bought this mug, or if it belonged
to a larger set, which got lost along
some move or broken in some forgotten
box—maybe in the basement or the attic? [. . .]

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David DiNisco

Regarding the Highchair You’re Selling on Facebook

May 20, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2021 / Liz Breen

Crazy because ten years has gone by and still, I’m not as old as you were when we dated. Would you call what we did “dating”? I used to begin every story about us with “When I was 18, I dated my teacher,” but now I find myself saying, “We had a two-year relationship.” But even that word —“relationship”— it feels too— what?

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Year, Make, Model

May 19, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2021 / Laura Seldner

There is an absence of what I have grown accustomed to: tension, uncertainty, fear. I am acutely aware of how, next to my Uncle, the world is a good place with good people and I am not something that has already been broken. I am eight-years-old and tired all the time. [. . .]

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Ultramodern Love Or, Romance Near the Singularity

May 18, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2021 / Soramimi Hanarejima

After placing a bottle of consciousness decoherent in my basket, I look up and find myself locking gazes with a shopper at the opposite end of the recreational delirium aisle. Instantly, I am enchanted by her augmented eyes. Which themselves aren’t an uncommon enhancement, but her modified irises are clearly a bespoke customization. . .

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Stud

May 17, 2021/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2021 / Jean-Luke Swanepoel

One by one, Nina managed to sleep with every man—fat, thin, tall, short, hairy, and bald—at the advertising firm where she worked. It wasn’t something that she planned, and it wasn’t something of which she was either proud or ashamed. Like much of life, including her brief marriage to a man who played the theremin, it just happened. . .

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Elizabeth Eve King, RR in Sienna

Paintings: San Francisco Inside and Out (+ one of Sienna night) – Acrylic

May 17, 2021/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2021 / Elizabeth Eve King

White reflects all color. Look at a “white” wall and concentrate. You will see browns, blues, yellows, magentas and infinite shades of reality.[…]

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Entangled by Elysium

Elysium’s World

May 16, 2021/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2021 / Evan Linthicum

Art is the human species’ most incredible form in the expression of life by far. Nothing else that is human-made can match the power of art. It moves us, motivates us, frightens us, and it can make us fall in love. . .

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hospitable / nebula / night shift

May 15, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Kolbe Riney

I meet a girl who is an alien for Halloween, which is the secret queer costume of the decade; she wears it in green sparkles and two antennae launching from her hair. I am trying to tell if she is straight, and also, to be sexy, so I ask,
what is your favorite emoji? . . .

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Anywhere But Here

May 15, 2021/in Summer-Fall 2021, Writing for Young People, Writing For Young People / Sacha Bissonnette

My stomach still turns at the thought of this, how clean and quick it was. How medical. And how easily Marcus had convinced me that what we did was right. [ . . .]

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Between Fire and Ice, 2020, Photography, 15 x 10”

Between Fire and Ice

May 15, 2021/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2021 / Chris Manfield

“Between Fire and Ice” is an ongoing photographic entry around the subject of wildfires within the forefront of climate change. Fire, to me, is alive and shares a deep relationship with our universal family. After the most destructive wildfire in the history of California in 2018, I began photographing fire-dependent ecosystems across the United States. . .

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Sweet Tooth

May 14, 2021/in Summer-Fall 2021, Writing For Young People, Writing for Young People / Delaney Burk

Perfectly easy twist on a Fourth of July classic. Enjoyed by all, but especially your boyfriend’s parents, and you’ll be so flattered that your dessert is the first one gone that you won’t even scold him when he puts his hand on your butt for the family photo. [. . .]

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I found a stack of letters you wrote to me from Bethlehem / Some people recognize physical acts of courage

May 14, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Kate Sweeney

I get home and my kids ask me to explain simple things: Why don’t humans lay eggs? Will it ever snow? Do people stop loving you because you’re far away? They’ve taped a sheet of paper to the wall, to keep a tally of all the mosquitos they killed since we arrived. . .

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You’re Going to Live Here

May 13, 2021/in Summer-Fall 2021, Writing For Young People, Writing for Young People / Jenna Wengler

Audrey tells me to step over the shattered glass at the foot of the escalator. “Come on, Emma,” she says. “You can’t get a good Instagram pic without a little risk.” [. . . ]

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Transplant

May 13, 2021/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2021 / Judith Terzi

There he was carrying a tray of bygone at a San Francisco Hilton. Surrogate for husband #1. Food services manager, not engineer. . .

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A Message to My Mother in Morse Code

May 13, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Amanda Crum

You asked me how it felt, my belly swollen with cramps and emptiness. Those were the cold-spark days when winter kept us huddled in bed. You were worried about how much pain I was in, but I had no answer to give that didn’t end in blood, so I turned my head due west and pondered the slice of sky framed in the window [. . .]

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Stitches

May 10, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Lizzie Roberts

When I checked the clock again it was 5:16 a.m. I would get up in less than an hour. And I would have to stay alive until O, our five-year-old, was eighteen. When you don’t want to live another day, thirteen years is an impossible amount of time to fathom. In the half-light, simple math and insomniac logic can lead to infinity. [. . .]

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Keening

May 10, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Josh Denslow

I have my own personal banshee. Most mornings, usually during my second bowl of cereal, she lets out a soul-melting wail to give me a heads-up on my impending death that day. I used to get worried, but it’s been going on awhile. And I’m still here [. . .]

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Karen Starrett, Inner Voice

Continuing the Conversation

May 2, 2021/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2021 / Karen Starrett

The act of painting, moving my hand across the canvas, is pure freedom—and fear. I continue to draw lines, wipe parts of them away, then redraw and wipe parts away again—joining, obscuring, and overlaying these lines many times. Different linear elements clash and struggle to be together—to make sense together. . .

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Your Rapist has Famous Parents

May 1, 2021/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2021 / Danielle Shorr

You are with your parents when you first meet him. You are on vacation, a spring break trip to a big city you are going to live near next year. You are seventeen, and certainly, you look it, if not younger [. . .]

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Gap Year

May 1, 2021/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2021 / Franz Jørgen Neumann

For Martha Kaas, half the thrill of going bohemian was not letting her husband suspect that she had. She appeared to commute to work at seven every morning but drove the opposite direction from her former life as a middle school math teacher. She parked in a garage in the garment district and spent the day exploring her creative side from within a rented loft space she shared with three artists: Somi, who worked in plaster of Paris; Fango, who altered thrift store paintings by painting in pop-culture characters; and Asia, upstairs, who made the ceiling breathe whenever she brought in her cadre of dancers [. . .]

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Return / To the Beloved / Athens

April 22, 2021/in Summer-Fall 2021, Translation, Translation / Antonia Pozzi, translated by Amy Newman

There was a nearly suffocating smell: smell of old walls, it struck me like the melodies that resurrect in the heart the deepest memories. You know: on that sofa I wept so much when I knew you wouldn’t come back. And today, in the doorway, my soul of that time took hold of me; in an instant my entire past returned. . .

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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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