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Word From the Editor

December 22, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Amanda Lopez, Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020
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All of Us Are in Pieces

December 6, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Nhung An
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Picasso This and That

December 5, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Rey Armenteros
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Decay

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Claire Boyer
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Dog of War

December 4, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Maria Zoccola
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From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit

December 4, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Albert Abonado
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Waorani Legend (With Appropriation)

December 4, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Lauren Brazeal
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An Oddly Satisfying Existence/ Leading Light/ The Anser

December 4, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mahdi Ahmadian
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The Things We Grow

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Hannah Abigail Clarke
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Torn Between Two Lives

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / by Julya Rabinowich, translated by Claire Storey
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Lampadophoria

December 3, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by José Castillo Baeza, translated by Allison A. deFreese
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My Gardener

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Benny Sisson
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Of a Fixed Nature

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Ronald Dzerigian

Two boys pull green oranges from the tree
that hangs over the churchyard fence. They

throw them into the street with such auto-
matic skill that they may be the same boys

sent to kill in any war that will never be theirs […]

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Life Only Gets Harder, or Silver Plungers at a Pre-K Graduation

December 3, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mandy Brown
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ednos

December 3, 2019/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2020 / Stephanie Yue Duhem
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Carol Es, Quarters, 2015, oil paint, paper, and fabric on birch panel, 24 in. x 24 in.

Rock and Refuge: Mixed Media

December 3, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Carol Es
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Caché Owens, Spring Fete, 2019, Collage, Acrylic, Oil Pastel on Canvas, 11 in. x 17 in.

Caché Owens: Mixed Media

December 3, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Caché Owens
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Hippotherapy

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Joyce Becker Lee
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Big Girls Don’t Cry

December 3, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Susmita Bhattacharya
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The Sign Language Alphabet, in Words

December 3, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Och Gonzalez
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How to Be Royal

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Daniel Riddle Rodriguez
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The Forgotten Voices

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emily Mirengoff
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Floating

December 2, 2019/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2020 / Benjamin Selesnick
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A Periwinkle Yesterday

December 2, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Susan Gillis Yarad
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An Inch of Courage

December 2, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Virginia Elizabeth Hayes
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Zamani, Steps to Understanding, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 140 cm x 140 cm

Still Lifelike: Oil Painting

December 2, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Sourena Zamani
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Politics and Art

December 2, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Dara Herman Zierlein
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Lilliam Rivera, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Sara Voigt
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Chris Feliciano Arnold, Author

December 2, 2019/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Buffy Visick
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Author

December 2, 2019/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2020 / Interviewed by Liz Netto
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Friday Lunch Blog

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

Today’s course:

Being A Girl is Hard

November 28, 2025/in Blog / Shawn Elliott
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Diagnosis: Persisted or Silent Inheritance

November 7, 2025/in Blog / Paula Williamson
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The Queer Ultimatum Made Me Give My Own Ultimatum

September 26, 2025/in Blog / Lex Garcia
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The Lilac and The Housefly: A Tale of Tortured Romanticism

October 24, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Nikki Mae Howard
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Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Turmeric

February 13, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche / Preeti Talwai
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Three Poems

February 6, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche / Reynie Zimmerman
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Three Poems

January 30, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche / Jen Karetnick
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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

Editing issue 28, I felt something similar to the way I feel near water: I dove into my own private world. The world above the surface kept roaring, of course. The notifications, deadlines, the constant noise was always there. But inside the work, inside these poems and stories and artwork, there was a quiet that felt entirely mine. A place where I could breathe differently.

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