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Buwaya (Crocodile)

November 26, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2020 / Enrique S. Villasis, translated by Scott Lee Chua
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Remembering Those Whose Names Are Forgotten

November 25, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Ji Yun, translated by Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum

The nun, Sister Hui, was very mysterious.
No one knew her family, or if she had one. No one knew whether she’d been raised rich or poor, educated or uneducated, in a village or in the capital city […]

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Devan Horton, Dissolve Me, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 30” x 40”

Penchant: Oil Painting

November 21, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Devan Horton
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Everything In Its Right Place

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Emily James
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I Know Who Did It

November 21, 2019/in Winter-Spring 2020, Young Adult, Young Adult / Christina Hoag
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Rainbow’s End

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Och Gonzalez
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The Habits of Great Predators

November 21, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Michael Schoch
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Aleksandra Suvorova, Skull, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 160 x 100 cm

Forbidden Garden: Oil Painting

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Aleksandra Suvorova
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Mutations: Mixed Media

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Huaiyi Tsai
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Famous Umobuarie, 1975 II, 2019, Graphite and Charcoal, 29 inches x 25 inches

The Beauty in Us: Graphite and Charcoal

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Famous Umobuarie
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Bergamini, Ouro Preto, 2007, Digital photography, 567 in. x850 in.

Daydreams: Digital Photography

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Guilherme Bergamini

Daydreams is a visual diary made by my wanderings in several Brazilian cities. Without commitment to a predetermined theme, this work is a cut from what I produced from 2005 to 2018 in my simple and routine walks with a camera looking for a photograph […]

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Roger Allan Cleaves, Tiger Lions, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 48” x 60”

The Forget Me Nots: Oil Painting

November 18, 2019/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2020 / Roger Allan Cleaves

I borrow, mix, and assemble motifs from history and contemporary times. The results are abstract figurative creatures whose various elements provide a deeper meaning into the psyche of the […]

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Love in the Archives

November 18, 2019/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2020 / Eileen Vorbach Collins
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Pinned Butterflies

November 18, 2019/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2020 / Jenn Powers
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Friday Lunch Blog

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

Today’s course:

Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Mother-to-Mother: An Open Letter about White Privilege and Fragility

November 22, 2024/in Blog / Dr. Valerie Nyberg
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

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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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Tale of the resistant apple tree

June 6, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Tahar Bekri, translated by Patrick Williamson
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Talyshi Wall Graffiti and other poems

May 30, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Ghazal
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we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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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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