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Winter Spring 2023 Issue 22

Barbara Platts Headshot

Word from the Editor

December 6, 2022/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2023, Word From the Editor / Barbara Platts
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Finalist of Gabo Prize Winter/Spring 2023

Six Poems from Universe 127

December 5, 2022/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2022 / Lucia Carvalho, translated by Liza St. James

Universo 127 was originally published in 2019 by Yerba Mala Cartonera in Bolivia, and it won Lucía Carvalho the Pablo Neruda prize for young Bolivian poets that same year.

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Diane Gillette Headshot

What’s Left Beneath When All the Wishes Have Blown Away

December 4, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Diane D. Gillette

Kara is 14 and over breakfast, Cousin Martha comes up, how she got herself in trouble running around with boys.

“No one’s going to buy the cow if you’re giving the milk away for free,” Kara’s dad tells her, not for the first time, or last.

Kara opens her mouth wide, chewing loudly. She moos in a spot-on cow impression.

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Frances Ogamba Headshot

Here’s to the Breed of Flying Hens!

December 4, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2023 / Frances Ogamba

When my toddler son says the word “mum,” it is not me he looks at. While his voice enunciates the first letter with a clipped edge, he points instead at a trumpet-shaped hibiscus we always pluck from the flower tree tipping across the fence delineating his older brother’s school. It feels magnificent that he says this word, but it is also shocking that he cannot fit me into it.

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Anna_Mécs Author Photo

Plastic-free Falafel Balls

December 4, 2022/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2022 / Mécs Anna, translated by Austin Wagner

The sparse nature of Mécs’s work might make a translation superficially easier, but in reality it adds a great deal of depth and challenge—just what a translator is looking for! Her short, clipped sentences, are sometimes presented without much context, or are strung to together in one long, run-on sentence, where the scenes flicker by like pages in a flipbook.

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Murilo Mendez Headshot courtesy of MAMM (Museu de Arte Murilo Mendes)

Five Poems by Murilo Mendes

December 4, 2022/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2021 / Murilo Mendes, translated by Baz Martin Gibbons

Despite his popularity in Brazil and his immigration to Europe, Murilo Mendes has never found an English translator.

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Joy Arbor Headshot

Occupation Experiments

December 4, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2023 / Joy Arbor

Is t

his a b

it of w

hat it means to be occu

pied? Beauty elsewhere.

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Kavita Das Headshot

Manifesting Social Change: An Interview with Kavita Das

December 4, 2022/in Lunch Special, Lunch Special, Winter-Spring 2023 / Interviewed by Rochelle Newman-Carrasco

In the introduction, I was framing the book. Why this book? Why me? Why now? What will you get from reading this book? A kind of a preview. So, in writing all of this, I used the phrase craft and conscience to address the importance of that duality. Craft includes conscience. Discussions of craft must include issues of conscience, because issues of conscience are not separate.

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Xiaoqiu Qiu Headshot

Poems of Guanxiu Translated from Classical Chinese

December 3, 2022/in Translation, Winter-Spring 2023 / Guanxiu, translated by Xiaoqiu Qiu

Monk poet Guan-xiu (832-912) was a renowned Chan (Zen) Buddhist hermit, wanderer, and artists of many disciplines at a turmoil time of Medieval China. Like many Chan monks before him, he embodied poetry in his religious meditation and vice versa.

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Realistic painting of people protesting for peace

Venice – Topanga Working Class

December 3, 2022/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2023 / Charles Borges Accardi

“Spatial Empathy” describes the awareness of an individual to the proximity, activities, and comfort of people surrounding them. It is related to the notion of personal space, the concept that an individual has ownership of their immediate surroundings; and for others to invade this space represents an infringement on their privacy.

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Laura Brun, author's headshot

stumbled

December 3, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2023 / Laura Brun

thought my glass smelled like puke
or maybe the whole bar or maybe
the guy leaning over me no he
smelled like cologne smelled like
this other time at a bar smelled

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Allison Cobb Headshot

How to be in the World: An Interview with Allison Cobb

December 3, 2022/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2023 / Interviewed by Ashlee Laielli

It was a combination of literary and non-literary influences. I work for Environmental Defense Fund. I have done a lot of work around what it means to engage both with colleagues at the organization and with communities who are experiencing the impacts of the Anthropocene immediately and directly. That’s really shifted how I think about my work as a writer.

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Rachel Laverdiere Headshot

The Rucksack is Packed and Hidden in the Pantry

December 3, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Rachel Laverdiere

Now, I will thread my arms through my raincoat and pull on my galoshes. Heave the rucksack onto my back. There is little I’ll miss in this house I’ve been scrubbing for forty years. I’ll hitchhike into the city. Tighten the straps and follow the crow swooping east, head toward the scent of death and rebirth—of decaying leaves composting into moist earth—

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Siobhan Ring

Words

December 3, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2023 / Siobhan Ring

You might think words live in your mouth. But you would be wrong. Your lips, your tongue, your cheeks, your teeth are just a vessel language moves through. The headwaters of language rest deep inside your brain where image, sound, and memory curl into meaning, flow into words, and cascade into sentences. It can dry up or slow to a trickle.

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Eleanor Crews Headshot

Two Poems by Eleanor Crews

December 3, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2023 / Eleanor Crews

i hope it follows you, circling like a bird of prey. i hope it sticks to your shoe like dog shit. i’m not doing well, and i think you should know. i hope this email slithers over the tile on your kitchen floor and sinks its teeth into your ankle.

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Headshot of Morgan Talty

Emotion at the Forefront of Storytelling: An Interview with Morgan Talty

December 2, 2022/in Interviews, Interviews, Winter-Spring 2023 / Interviewed by Liz Iversen

One of the things I deliberately left out when I wrote about the island in the book was its size, because in real life it’s like three by two miles. It’s not very big. I wanted to be able to not pin myself down to a specific size because I plan to set more work there.

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Rebecca Burke, author's headshot

Unit Test

November 25, 2022/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2023 / Rebecca Burke
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Neon and grey line drawing on black surface of a vague person seated on a bed, looking in a dazzling mirror at alluring, bright person with centipede features.

Shadows Love Me

November 25, 2022/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2023 / Rachel Mulder

I stole the title for this body of work from my three-year-old niece. She was initially afraid of the shadows created by the canopy her mom placed over her bed. My sister-in-law was about to take it down when she said, “never mind, shadows love me!” These neon gel pen drawings were first exhibited in Portland, Oregon, at a café called Albina Press, in the Fall of 2022

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Collage lungs

Junkmail Collages

November 25, 2022/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2023 / Matthew Klane

As a poet, appropriation and collage have always been my primary mode. Distilling and transforming text. Layering and arranging text. My poetic interests have also leaned towards the visual arts: typography, page-space, dirty minimalism.
These junkmail collages were intended as a daily practice. Use only what falls through the mail slot. Be attentive to the rips and stains and bruises the paper incurred in its travels.

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Maxwell Suzuki, author's headshot

NATIONAL GUN OWNERS SURVEY or WHAT IT MEANS TO KNOW THE BODY ISN’T A TARGET

November 25, 2022/in DWM, DWM, Winter-Spring 2023 / Maxwell Suzuki

1. Do you agree that the Second Amendment guarantees your individual right to own a firearm?
Yes, but—

2. Do you support the confirmation of pro-Second Amendment judges to the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts?
No, the second amendment didn’t account for three round bursts.

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Yellow lily pad on the water with green lily pads

Autumn Field

November 24, 2022/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2023 / Roger Pfingston

As much as anything, I think that what has guided and sustained my work as a photographer is curiosity, the desire to see what something looks like as a photograph. I’ve always been fascinated by the “what it is, what it isn’t” factor of photography—how the literal can become figurative by changing the angle of view, the distance from the subject, or the light.

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Martin Shapiro Headshot

Halogen Nocturne

November 24, 2022/in Poetry, Poetry, Winter-Spring 2023 / Martin Shapiro

I pull my curtains open, lean on the sill,

sweating. Headlights bob uphill toward me.

Randy’s car, rattling tin an hour late,

swerves to park across the road: flicker

through the windshield, thumps of rock radio.

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Zoë Mertz, author's headshot

Pacific Grays and Blues

November 21, 2022/in Winter-Spring 2023, Writing for Young People, Writing for Young People / Zoë Mertz

The beach is cold. Sierra’s never been on a beach that’s cold before. Back in Malibu, the only type of weather was beach weather: balmy skies, just enough salt on the breeze, and sunshine that kept her naturally pale skin tan year-round. This beach is most definitely not Malibu. Scruffy pines line the crumbling cliff faces, and everywhere she looks is gray: gray sand, gray sky, gray sea.

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Christine H. Chen Headshot

Our Castle

November 20, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2023 / Christine H. Chen

Some time, before we noticed it, Ah Ma had started renovating our cramped one-bedroom apartment into rows of cardboard boxes, boxes she got from buying canned beans, jars of spicy bamboo shoots, packs of Long Life noodles, because Ah Ma never buys just one thing at a time, that’s cheap and lonely, and we’re neither, instead, she buys things in double at least…

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Kyrie' Eleison Owen Headshot

The Deserters

November 19, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2023 / Kyrié Eleison

We packed an ice chest and drove from civilization to a grave. We drove forty-five minutes to a sea in the middle of the desert. You said the Salton Sea was a mistake—an engineering failure that caused the Colorado River to flood the Imperial Valley in 1905. But the mistake seemed a blessing in disguise.

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Eric Tuazon Headshot

Cat Wedding

November 13, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / E. P. Tuazon

When it was summertime and there was no school, Edmar’s cousin, Roanna, and her cat came from the Philippines to visit like they always did but, this time, to get married to his neighbor. Edmar, however, found this strange, as his cousin loved cats and his neighbor, Jeff, did not. “So what,” his father said at breakfast, swallowing his blood pressure medicine with his coffee…

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Anam Raheem Headshot

Holding Hands

November 13, 2022/in Flash Prose, Flash Prose, Winter-Spring 2023 / Anam Raheem

I enter the Gaza Strip weekly, my routine the same: cross the border, get settled into my office, and then walk around the corner to purchase fruit and vegetables for the week from Abu Emad‘s market. In my 5 years in Palestine, I have become a regular at this market.

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Tanya Zilinskas Headshot

Facsimile

November 12, 2022/in Fiction, Fiction, Winter-Spring 2023 / Tanya Žilinskas

My boyfriend’s reasons for bringing home the fax machine were unclear. The insurance office where he worked was a curiosity of anachronism; Sergei and his colleagues wore wide collared shirts and polyester pants and saved their work on floppy disks. Their office was located in a former Masonic temple, and everything above the second floor was condemned. I was convinced it was a front for criminal activity.

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Blue and green background with yellow flower strands

Gloomy Blooms

November 3, 2022/in Art, Art, Winter-Spring 2023 / William Reichard

I started work on the “Gloomy Blooms” photo series in May 2020. The country had gone into Covid lockdown in March, and like many people, I was struggling to adapt to my new, more isolated life. I’m an introvert, and alone time is very important to me, but even introverts have our limits. The lockdown made me realize how much I depend on seeing my friends and family.

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

Today’s course:

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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Confessions of a Birthday Person

November 4, 2022/in 2023ws-migration, Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

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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Abyssinia

August 26, 2022/in Midnight Snack / JP Goggin
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Still Life

October 31, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Daniel J. Rortvedt
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Litdish: Writing About Grief: An Interview with Jenn Koiter

October 24, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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Dawn from Buffy Learns About Climate Change

October 10, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
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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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