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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:

The Many Drafts of My (Writing) Life

September 4, 2026/in Blog / Caren McDonald
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A Love Like No Other

August 7, 2026/in Blog / Claudia Vaughan
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Being A Girl is Hard

November 28, 2025/in Blog / Shawn Elliott
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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:

Unraveling

September 11, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche / Jessica Wingate
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Tulip Garden

August 28, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche / Cassandra Baliga
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“Live from the 054 bus in Athens” and “Violanta Biscuit Factory Blast”

August 14, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche / Athena Melliar
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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

Readers,

On December 23rd, 2024, I lost a dear friend of mine, Valerie Goldstein. She was a fellow teacher and writer, and she spent her young adult life being a voice for change. Valerie had organized protests, and her dream was to get into educational policy. When I heard the news of her death, I was grief-stricken. She was so full of life and happiness, and I thought that the world had lost another good one.

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