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Amuse-Bouche

Our regular and occasional Amuse-Bouche series offer little bites each week to keep you satiated between issues. Dig in!

Spotlight is a regular series published every other Monday throughout the year, showcasing an individual writer or artist. Writers Read is an occasional series showcasing craft-based reviews of published works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and translation. À La Carte is a curated occasional series featuring short pieces by writers from underrepresented or historically misrepresented communities and/or writing that engages with issues of social, economic, and environmental justice. Litdish is an occasional series of interviews with writers and artists in conversation with our staff about literature, art, social justice, and community activism.

LitDish: Chen Chen, Poet and Educator

July 27, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / An Interview with Regan Humphrey

The poetic form has a compressed intensity to it. There’s such a focus. With the essay form, there’s more room to expand upon things. In an essay, I can wander around a little bit more; I can go on a tangent and reconnect with the main focus of the essay later. I like having that room.[…]

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Meditations Disrupted By Red Lemon Ghost With Strange Head Knocking Device: Drawings

July 20, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Bryan Voell

My drawings incorporate various combinations of paper, crayon, watercolor, ink, and digital embellishments using the Procreate app. Some are all digital. Whatever I’m working on, my goal is to make it new.

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LitDish: Joshua Rourke, Publisher and Author

July 13, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / An Interview with Sen Sherman

I’m one of those poets who gets the most creative satisfaction out of editing. That said, I don’t think I would enjoy working on a poem or group of poems after more than a few months. I tend to tinker until I make myself sick of it.[…]

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Stage Two / Follow-Up / All Love Stories are Death Stories

June 18, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / M. Soledad Caballero

Stage Two You are invasive, like water through stone cracking grey
shimmers inside, like jelly fish in the Pacific swimming,
stuck to legs and arms, stinging skin in the salty brine.
Dark murmuration, wall of bones and feathers and small
bodies swooping through the sky, blotting out light and time […]

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The Holy Trinity / Seen, A Conversation with Josephine Baker

June 18, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Kyndal Thomas

Allen, TX In a stash of nostalgia my parents keep a piece of orange paper. Typed at the top it reads: “What three things are most important to you?” and underneath in neat rounded writing my teacher transcribed my answer: “God, Jesus, and money.”[…]

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Call Me Spes #7/ #9 / #11

June 8, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Sara Marron

how often and when to learn significant places significant conversations significant persons to provide personalized experiences relating building memories building navigation assembling itself language feelings to black one binary white zero[…]

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Dan Jian, Shunga

Land of Lights

June 1, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Dan Jian

My work explores an inner world of stored images and reflects on the shifting space of landscape, narrative, and memory. In the context of globalization, I am interested in how any image conveys a sense of time and place specific to a personal and cultural history; drawing and painting have been the constants on which I rely to investigate these questions […]

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LitDish: Lisa Bunker, Author and American Politician

May 25, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Adrien Kade Sdao

That radical melding of reader and character is, in my opinion, one of the highest rewards of reading, and I strive to create stories that encourage readers to experience it.[…]

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Bad Dreams in America

May 18, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Talya Jankovits

And this is when fear grips me the tightest. How can I protect them? How can I keep them safe—[…]

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Magpie’s Dazzling / The Magpie Draws its Sorrow Line / Don’t Call Me Noo-Noo

May 9, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Koss

Magpie’s Dazzling 
when the magpie comes
he skulks behind his splendor
listen as he mirrors your tongue
careful, your ear, to the mummer

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Saba Shahid-Moir, Art Therapist

May 3, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Loumarie Rodriguez

Chief Smiling Officer of the Art Cart, Saba Shahid-Moir, MS, has made it her mission to help those who can’t smile so easily anymore due to complications from Parkinson’s disease […]

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Letter to a Black Girl from her Great, Great Grandmother / Such Strange Fruit / Africa

April 27, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Roshanda Johnson II

Women always choose survival over sadness. The story of our constant lack goes like this: in a land, some land, any land, men
stole the beans & rice, fed our bodies to the war, any war […]

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Chinedu Chidebe

Art and Emotions

April 20, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Chinedu Chidebe

My art was born out the quest for perfection, and in every work that I create, I make a realistic drawing of people, showing the emotions they wish we could see through their eyes, with pencils. […]

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Rae Dubow, Business Owner and Speaking Coach

April 13, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Barbara Platts

When she visited Antioch University, Los Angeles in December 2019, Rae Dubow hosted a seminar entitled, Writers at Work: Performance Workshop for Writers, where she worked with several students to teach more effective ways for them to read their work in front of the class. […]

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The Question / Where It All Began / A Quietness of Magic

April 5, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Satya Dash

It takes an inundation to isolate my isolation. I hope you remember―how a moon flooded fields for yellow spirits to rove, how we hastened through terraces into shrubs of pleasure. You: denuder, I: stony road. […]

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À La Carte: Second Wedding

March 30, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Liam Strong

I do not think my family knows how to talk without belligerence behind the lilt of their jaws. We are the kind of people who do not deserve to love. I want to place a bouquet of flowers I cannot name in my mouth […]

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Bibliotechnical Sins

March 23, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Carol Hamilton

Can I find the words I mark electronically without the cluster of stars I draw in margins to show what is important? Can I discover a buried treasure finger-flicking entries on a screen? Can I flip pages for perusal of bright maps on unexpected pages? […]

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LitDish: Four Questions with Povi-Tamu Bryant, Activist, Artist, Author

March 16, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Regan Humphrey

I think the question for writers is what do you want the legacy of your work to be? And how can approaching your work through an inclusive solidarity-driven cultural humility framework actually support the expansiveness of your legacy? I want writers to sit with that, to let that shape their writing […]

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Sunless Kiss, 2019, Photography, 24" x 36".

The Natural Skin of Geometry

March 9, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / J Robertson

By definition, the grey area is the mixing of different characteristics or the lack of clearly definable characteristics. In this collection, I have attempted to do both, by merging and mixing three of the things I love most about art. These are: nature, skin tones, and geometry, as a whole, that is found naturally in both. Aesthetically, I have always loved the endlessness of what can be created in the spectrum that is found between black and white.[…]

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À La Carte: Trodden

March 1, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Bobbi Amar-Atsen

It was dawn when the R.U.F. came. Mama was braiding Hadiah’s hair and Papa was on his way with Hassan to sea to start fishing. We had heard stories about the rebels burning villages to the ground in one swift motion, killing all the elderly, cutting off people’s limbs, taking the young and turning them into soldiers. Every day, families who had been affected by the war would walk through our village telling those stories.

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Litdish: Anjali Singh, Literary Agent

February 24, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Janet Rodriguez

Anjali Singh, literary agent with Ayesha Pande Literary (APL), started her career in publishing in 1996 as a literary scout, and later worked as an editor with Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Vintage Books, and as Editorial Director at Other Press. She is best known for having championed Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, after stumbling across the original French version on a visit to Paris.[…]

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Rhaiah Spooner-Knight

Culture Shock

February 17, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Rhaiah Spooner-Knight

My work is a reflection of my passions and creative inspirations. I am hugely influenced by urban music, culture, and the political issues and injustices that have been occurring in the United States of America. Being a mixed-race woman myself, I am constantly exploring and learning about the different cultures, races, and struggles that inhabit the population of the US.[…]

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Burdens

February 9, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Dakota Morgan

The biscotti slipped first, falling to the floor through the space of her forearm. Next went the cheese, then the crackers. Agitated, she dropped the rest of the assorted bags and packaging and breathed deeply. She knelt down to restack the boxes, starting with the largest and utilizing every angle of her arms and torso to balance each.[…]

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Pradip Kumar Sau, Untitled 2, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 60x60

Desire

February 3, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Pradip Kumar Sau

Life is a journey from womb to tomb. During this journey, man is in constant search of the infinite with his finite possibilities. The material aspects of life, like desire, ambition, yearning for name and fame, pull him constantly down to the earth. Yet the search continues. Search for what?[…]

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Déjà vu

January 26, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Romana Iorga

Nouns drop from their perches,
seeking a less
hate-driven sentence,
aiming for purpose or purchase
or mere acceptance.

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Darrell Black, Temple of the Deity, 2018, Pen and Ink, 11 ½” x 8 ½”

Art of Definism

January 20, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Darrell Black

I work in a variety of formats that include pen and ink drawings, acrylic paintings on canvas wood, and mixed media objects. My creative process is a mixture of works on paper, acrylic paint, found objects, and nontoxic hot glue […]

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Litdish: Ashley Lumpkin, Poet

January 12, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2019 / Molly Ashline

Ashley Lumpkin has been writing since she was seven. She is a poet and started doing slam poetry performance in 2010. She has four poetry collections and a new creative nonfiction collection called I Hate You All Equally […]

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Trace of Nicotine

January 7, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Dakota Chisum

I think I know why his breaths are slower, shallower. The way he inhales before pushing his body off the couch, first a deep breath, and then how he holds it and propels himself forward in exhale, out onto the porch.

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À La Carte: Elegy for Black Barbie

January 5, 2020/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Joy Young

You were the villain at tea parties, attacking the blonde society barbies, with skin pale like fragile porcelain and eyes an unblinking blue sky. You were dark as coffee, an uninvited stain on the white rug I played on. I wanted to love you, being a gift from Grandma.

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The Tide Pool

December 30, 2019/in Amuse-Bouche, Amuse-Bouche 2020 / Bailey Cunningham

It was the usual things: missing mother, bed-wetting, the problem with the pets. They found a dead rabbit under his bed, strawberry blood seeping floorboards. They found a jar of old beetles hard as quarters. It was only a matter of time.

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Friday Lunch Blog

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

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Diagnosed at Sixty – My ADHD Journey

April 22, 2022/in Blog / Kait Leonard
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Why Video Game Preservation Matters

April 15, 2022/in Blog / Nicholas Galvez
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Sarees in America

April 1, 2022/in Blog / Majella Pinto
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Tonight’s bites:

QVC-land

May 6, 2022/in Midnight Snack / D. E. Hardy
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Escape Artists at the End of the World

April 29, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Lisa Levy
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The House in the Middle

April 15, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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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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Here at Lunch Ticket, 2021 represents ten years of our literary journal. 2021 marks the start of a new decade, one I can only hope will stand as tall and iconic in the history of our publication as the jazz age in America. What we’ve put together this fall is what I call and will fondly remember as our “Roaring 20th Issue”.

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