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Ayesha’s Dream

May 27, 2015/in Summer-Fall 2015, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Ed Taylor

Listen. . . On a velvety night in a desert land, a cool wind moved among dunes and glided into a small village. The curious wind lifted the long limbs of the date palm trees, touched the donkey’s fur in the stable, and poked through the open window of Ayesha’s room in her family’s house. […]

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Nature Lessons

May 22, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Rosalie Sanara Petrouske

Grandmother’s house nestled at the edge of a wild wood. In the summer, my parents left me with her while they traveled north for my father’s job. He worked part-time for logging companies, clear-cutting forests, harvesting pulp and timber near Grand Marais and Stonington in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Those were summers of tanned bare legs […]

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MANDEM: Mixed Media

November 28, 2012/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2013 / by MANDEM

“Project Hippolytus” is inspired by a Greek myth: Asclepius, the patron of medicine, raises the boy Hippolytus from the dead. Zeus is angered by this, and he strikes Asclepius down with a thunder bolt. Our century seems to think…

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Jillian Lauren, Author and Memoirist

November 28, 2012/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2013 / Interviewed by Lise Quintana

Jillian Lauren was born in New Jersey and found herself working in theater in New York by her late teens. Her work in theater led to a career in sex work, which became the subject of her memoir Some Girls, covering the time Lauren spent in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the sultan of Brunei…

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Circus Series: Mixed Media

November 28, 2012/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Sandra Antongiorgi
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Undone

November 28, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Talya Jankovits

When I grabbed at her hand to keep her from going again, a tiny tip of her pointer finger came off. I clasped it tightly as she ran in velvet high heels down 42nd Street, almost tripping over her hair. It was still warm against my palm…

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The Memoirist

November 28, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Amy Yelin

I like to think I have it all figured out. Take the rifle. As long as I can remember, the gun was there, resting next to the exercise bike in our house in New York. My father probably assumed he’d hid it well, draping it under several terry cloth robes…

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Green Vase

November 27, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Danusha Goska

Up at five. I rise before she does. I begin cleaning by six. It takes seven hours. It never ceases to humiliate: cleaning another woman’s home. Take a break to wake Mrs. Pattershall, serve her tea, and provide a hand to help her out of bed. After dressing, she gets under my feet. I think […]

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Aimee Bender, Author

November 27, 2012/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2013 / Interview by Kathleen Whitney Rohr

Aimee Bender is the author of two short story collections, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) and Willful Creatures (2005), two novels, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010) and a novella, The Third Elevator (2009). She contributed to The Secret Society of Demolition Writers and […]

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Art History

November 27, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Ted Jean

When Grandmother Gasse passed, Art got access to the trust account. The very next morning, he quit the radio station by calling his boss and suggesting he shove it. Dropping the phone, he tossed his head back, flung his arms high, and howled. The boy would devote himself to painting, hereafter, as he had dreamt […]

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This Girl with Feathers

November 27, 2012/in Winter-Spring 2013, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by M.W. Fowler

On the same road, there lived a girl with feathers for hair and a boy poet who had to use a wheelchair. The boy lived in a small rented house, and he’d always had to use a wheelchair. But the girl, she lived in the large stripe-painted house…

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Greg Neri, Young Adult Author and Poet

November 26, 2012/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2013 / Interviewed by Kristen Schroer

Greg Neri writes poetry, prose, and graphic novels for young adults under the pen name G. Neri. He’s said, “I write provocative, edgy stories for reluctant readers, especially urban boys, in hopes that these kinds of books—immediate, compelling and told through the eyes of young males—will open minds to reading.” They’re not the only ones taking note […]

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Shadowboxing

November 26, 2012/in Winter-Spring 2013, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Jesse Cheng

My shadow seemed down when I was boxing it the other day. I’m not sure if that was the first time or what, I never paid much attention to my shadow unless we were boxing, and we only boxed when I was pissed so I probably wouldn’t have noticed even if it was. But this […]

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman

November 26, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Rochelle Spencer

I. Twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays, I saw them. Oiled, buttered up, ready for consumption. And though black writers hate to describe skin color in terms of food, it’s true: their bodies were all the shades of brown you’d see on a Thanksgiving dinner table. That’s not the important thing. This is. Heads […]

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Audvantgardener: Acrylic & Watercolor

November 26, 2012/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Otha Davis III
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Living under Wraps

November 26, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Kevin Spenst

What housewarming gift is best for someone moving into a townhouse that will be under scaffolding and tarps for a year? I hope to get Evelyn Lau’s Living under Plastic. She writes poetry inside quiet places…

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Arthur Sze, Poet

November 25, 2012/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2013 / Interviewed by Janice Ko Luo and José Hernandez Diaz

Arthur Sze was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012. He was born in New York City and educated at the University of California, Berkeley. Sze is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Ginkgo Light (2009), Quipu (2005), The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 (1998), and Archipelago (1995).  He is […]

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Driving Back We Pass My Parents’ Home

November 25, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Leigh Anne Hornfeldt

This never means the same thing twice. Tonight our children sleep in the backseat. Their heads yield left and right through the country, the moon a cantaloupe slice crowding Cygnus from the sky. Under that pinoak I crept, kissed a boy in porchlight pallor, picked grass from between my toes. By the juniper I snuck […]

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Leah Givens: Photography

November 25, 2012/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Leah Givens
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Stalemate

November 25, 2012/in Winter-Spring 2013, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by J. Ifueko

Monday My fingertips hurt again. The quad is too noisy to be distracting; a chaos of first trimester stress. No internet for the loop of email, Hulu, Twitter. No service for texts from Mom. Just me and the music, pen trembling on the page. Focus abandons my brain, collecting instead like wax under my nails. […]

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Things We Never Know

November 24, 2012/in Winter-Spring 2013, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Steven Ostrowski

The black and white sign taped to Connor’s bedroom door said GO AWAY. I should have. Should have turned around, walked down to Fleming Lake, sat on the ledge above the cove, figured out a beat, taken out my notebook and written a thousand lines about how everywhere I looked I saw Carly’s eyes and […]

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David L. Ulin, Author and Los Angeles Times book critic

November 24, 2012/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2013 / Interviewed by Wendy Fontaine

No one knows books like David L. Ulin. On any given day, the Los Angeles Times book critic has an assortment of books within his reach, and each one is as different from the others as the hues of the rainbow. From The Best American Short Stories 2012 to Waging Heavy Peace, the meandering memoir […]

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Placement, or The Sound of Caves

November 24, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by D. E. Lee

The drumbeat of his brain, a cave dweller sonata; birch branches pounded on scorched log; the curvature of myelin sheaths, the upper elevations of intelligence, the emergence of the bipedal stranger in the dark night gazing at the moon like the flat face of the clock that reads 4:07.That has read 4:07 for the past two […]

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Tales of Corruption

November 24, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Pablo Piñero Stillmann

MY FIRST TIME. Wouldn’t it be great if I remembered the first bribe I ever gave? I’d love to shine a light on its romantic aspect, the shameful complicity between the briber and the bribed, the shy smiles exchanged. Maybe I’d write something like, It was a first kiss: loss of innocence paired with the […]

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Karen Golightly: Photography

November 24, 2012/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Karen Golightly
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I-5 N

November 24, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2013 / by R. Joseph Capet

A biker sped by, pushing 70, with bugs in his beard and grease in the crooks of his elbows. Miles of grime on the plates left him stateless. In the bitch seat, more than a weekend’s packing and two tiny flags where familiar thighs should have been. He looked like an old man, but he […]

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Wishing Weeds

November 23, 2012/in Winter-Spring 2013, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / by Grace Thomas

Everything was green. The way the sun shone down made everything seem brighter than it was. The arch of trees above my head should have provided a veil from the warm spring sunshine, but it didn’t. The sun still managed to shine on everything, even the tiny black ants scampering at the base of the […]

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Freight

November 23, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Tara Walker

Just about the time that you really want to talk, you can’t say a word. The train talks for you; machinery rumbling beneath you, wheels turning faster than sound, faster than vision. You look down and it’s a blur: green, brown, green. That night we curled up in the grain car, trying to compact our […]

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Dialogue with the Body

November 23, 2012/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Brandel France de Bravo

I thought about leaving you. But you didn’t. Why did you treat me so badly? I was testing your love, but those days are over. I was a cigarette under your heel. You inhaled—admit it. If I said “stop,” you heard “more.” I thought you enjoyed a little rough play. Besides, who had who in […]

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Me After You

November 23, 2012/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Erin Kilian

In the interest of being honest, I fucked someone else fifteen minutes before we met.  In the pay toilet at the Peace Park, room for only me, this guy, the squat toilet, the sign that said Gyōgi yoku shi nasai – Mind your manners.  He laughed at some half-formed joke I made and turned me […]

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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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Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

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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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