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Word from the Editor

June 12, 2022/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2022, Word From the Editor / Barbara Platts
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Headshot Photo of Writer Alexandra Corinth

Queering Eden

June 5, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Alexandra Corinth

Here in the grotto, we whisper like sinners sipping on wine stolen from a stocked cabinet or an under-staffed supermarket with broken cameras—ours for the taking. Our secrets are coated in fermented, besotted grape juice, brains buzzing and swollen against our skulls, the rest of us just as desperate to be free.

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Giving Voice to the Neurodivergent: An Interview with SchiZotypal Experientialist Poet Jake Bailey

June 5, 2022/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2022 / Interviewed by Christine Waloszczyk

A lot of these poems were written when I wasn’t well. Poetry came to me later in life. I was really in a weird mental state and one thing that’s common among people on the schizo spectrum is this interest in mysticism and Eastern philosophies, although it’s not always the case.

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Saeb Tabrizi, public domain image

Two Poems by Saeb Tabrizi

June 5, 2022/in Summer-Fall 2022, Translation, Translation / translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

I hear God’s promise of forgiveness in the babbling wine.

From the rubab, I hear the clang of Paradise’s gate.

This is the difference when we hear:

you hear the door closing, I hear it opening.

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Portrait of the poet Humberto Ak'abalHumberto Ak'abal's website

Seven Poems by Humberto Ak’abal

June 5, 2022/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2022 / Humberto Ak'abal, translated by Michael Bazzett

Humberto Ak’abal (1952-2019) was a K’iche’ Mayan poet born in Momostenango, in the western highlands of Guatemala.

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On Grief / Walking Through Costco I Feel Like a Woman

June 5, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2022 / Anna Girgenti

When you died, the grooves
in your back turned to rivers

on which I set sail everything I stole from you:

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Flirting with Danger

June 5, 2022/in Summer-Fall 2022, Writing for Young People, Writing For Young People / Kristin Bartley Lenz

Sophomore year, our history teacher made us keep a daily journal of news headlines that caught our attention. On Friday mornings, we chose one headline each, and shared a summary of the story. A pattern soon emerged.

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Sardines

June 4, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Brian Katz

Midday, standing on the gray, vinyl floor of his small kitchen in Chicago’s West Side, Ozzie took a can of sardines from the cabinet and pried open the top. His flannel robe hung loose, exposing gnarled blue veins running down his legs. He stood motionless as he stared into the tin.

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Connecting the Dots of Silence: An Interview with Roberto Lovato

June 4, 2022/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2022 / Interviewed by Kevin Cummins

Lovato: I had several original titles, one of which was Digging for Salvation. Another one was Américan with an accent on the E because I stopped calling myself American long ago. As you read my book, you’ll discover I saw some horrific things done with the support of America…

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©Violette Bule

The Beautified Among the Insane

June 4, 2022/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2022 / Raquel Abend van Dalen, translated by Dillon Scalzo and Raquel Abend van Dalen

I’m that carnivorous bird
that you avoid in common curves
although you desire my maniacal choir presence
you continue to fear an extinction

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Janus Vacations in the Second Circle of Hell

June 4, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2022 / Shelby Pinkham

trope is unhinged femme / prevents me from writing / Annie Wilkes hobbles a man because bipolar, because obsessive / Dr. Robert Elliott murders because transgender, because toxic masculinity, because self-hatred

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Ghost Birds

June 4, 2022/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2022 / Karin Hedetniemi

We’re erasing the whiteboard. We’re not going to drive the Pacific Coast Highway as planned. We won’t hike a trail in the Olympic Mountains, beachcomb for agates on the Oregon coast, or spot migrating shorebirds.

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Quinn Forlini

This Year as a Compilation of Short Films I Can’t Decipher

June 3, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2022 / Quinn Forlini

My friend sends a video of her newborn opening and closing her mouth, testing the length of her tongue in air and then resting it back inside its wet, warm spot. Her spit and lips make soft sounds, the closest she could get to language. I want to come closer to how she must feel. It’s snowing.

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The Girl with the Turquoise Eye-Shadow

June 3, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2022 / Nimisha Kantharia

It was mid-December in Mumbai, a city with just one season, hot and humid. Yet the worn cotton curtains of the consulting room I sat in billowed with an afternoon breeze that sent icy fingers down my neck and up my spine, and a hollow cough rattled my chest. The Out-Patient Department (OPD) was crowded, and patients pressed in on me from all sides even as I feverishly attended to them.

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Keith Powell, author, reading a book

The Fight

June 3, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Keith J. Powell

Before curfew, Friend Bar is a G.I. hangout. After curfew, it belongs to us, the expats. We think of it as our private after-hours dive tucked away on the second floor of a broken-down building in a seedy part of Seoul. 

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I Move in Light

June 3, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2022 / Sanvitti Sahdev

dawn at the train station:
hushed voices scatter last night’s news

into the air like goldfish the
morning light plucks it pours

it over pillars & swims at your feet.

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Pulled Out of a Hat: An Interview with Ceilidh Michelle

June 3, 2022/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2022 / Interviewed by Kevin Cummins

I hadn’t read many memoirs before I started to write my own. When my agent Barbara Berson said, “You’ve got a nonfiction book here.” It was scary for me to say, “This is not a fictionalized world.” I hadn’t gone out of my way to read anything in preparation for writing it.

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Comments Made to a Mother of Girls

June 2, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Lilly Roan

Four girls in five years, wow, did you plan that? Do they all have the same father? Are you going to try for a boy? Have you figured out where babies come from?

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Heir of the Cuckoo

June 2, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Summer-Fall 2022 / Shannon Tsonis

He’s poised with a notepad and pen on top of legs crossed tight like braids. He repeats the question, “When did you find out your father was the main suspect?”
The therapist sits in front of his motivational posters, the ones that frustrate me with their cornball optimism.

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Collision

June 2, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2022 / Claudia Schatz

Let’s not read into it, but I got into my first and only car crash the same day I tried to move to the city where you live. I sat numb in the left lane with a bruise across my breastbone, holding up traffic, hood smoking on the hot tarmac until the tow truck came to haul me back home.

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Nothing Is One Thing: An Interview with Diane Seuss

June 2, 2022/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Summer-Fall 2022 / Interviewed by Kirby Chen Mages

Seuss: I have a Master of Social Work degree, and I was a therapist. I taught as an adjunct in creative writing while I was doing that, and I was raising a son—a lot of that time as a single parent. I realized that to not go crazy, I had to think of everything as “of the piece.”

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Self-Exploration Rather Than Explanation: An Interview with Meredith Talusan

June 1, 2022/in Interviews, Interviews, Summer-Fall 2022 / Interviewed by Kirby Chen Mages

Because of the fact that I did my MFA in fiction, I actually hadn’t read that many memoirs. But then I started as a staff writer for Buzzfeed News in the fall of 2015, and one of the first pieces that I wrote for them was a genre review of trans women’s memoirs. That was when I became interested.

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Analia Vallagra

Always Waiting, Always Here

May 31, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Summer-Fall 2022 / Analía Villagra

She’ll be dead that evening, but neither of them knows this. In her final moments, as the car flips over, she will not think of him but of her parents, of how she would give anything to spare them the pain they are about to experience.

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The Quilted Multiverse / Still Alive / Bitters

May 30, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Summer-Fall 2022 / Stephanie Staab

One way, you pass a house with chickens in the yard and you think, “Ah, I’ve always wanted chickens. I’d be better with chickens.”

One way, you go everywhere by bike and live in a flap tent alone. Your thighs are sculpted like marble.

One way is full of bubbles: bathtubs, gum, champagne, Jacuzzis.

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Double Exposure Polaroid Photography

May 29, 2022/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2022 / Ellery Beck

This series is a reimagining of older photographs I’ve taken with more recent polaroid’s put over top—a visual translation of the conversations an artist has with themselves, with their old work, with what they’re doing now. Everything I’ve created, whether it be visual art, sculptures, or poetry—they’re participating in one conversation, stacking up meaning.

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White serpent with yellow stripes in flowers

Untitled

May 27, 2022/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2022 / Rachel Coyne

My deepest influences are found equally within the surrealists and Outsider Art pieces such as street preacher James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly. I approach painting with a conscious rawness. With reference to Outsider Art, my artistic insights meet the paint and paper with technical and emotional directness.

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Hard Flesh

May 26, 2022/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2022 / Pawel Grajnert

The digital photographs represent two series of still life images for back lit prints, Hard Flesh and Fashioned.

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Playing with Scissors

May 26, 2022/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2022 / Sherry Shahan

I’ve wandered the globe as a travel journalist for decades, often watching the world and its people from behind; whether in the hub of London, a backstreet in Havana, or alone from a window in a squat hotel room in Paris; whether with a 35 mm camera or an iPhone.

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Circle with geometric point and line shape atop

Silent Sound Pieces – Graphic Notation Series

May 25, 2022/in Art, Art, Summer-Fall 2022 / The2vvo

The series results from numerous conversations about nomadic life and its expressions, as experienced by the artists on the move. Within the paradigm of continuous “new beginnings” and “ending chapters,” we are often finding ourselves, short-term and long-term, within the “grey” zone both legislation-wise and concerning the sense of belonging, with “black and white” phases, and with bright patterns of events

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Echolocation

May 25, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Summer-Fall 2022 / Miranda Williams

As I arrive at the Institute and the heater sinks me in stuffy-warm air, I realize I haven’t spoken to you in nearly six years. It’s an icy day. The snow stacks knee-high, floods walkways, turning them to marsh, and the sky is empty—pale white like a beluga whale.

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Friday Lunch Blog

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

Today’s course:

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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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

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:

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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Litdish: On Writing Form, Style and Moving Through the Moments: 7 Questions for Author Megan Giddings

July 18, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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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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