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and Bog People—Elizabeth Adams An author’s meditation on poetic influence, poetic difficulty, and poetic faith, in a journey from T.S. Eliot to Seamus Heaney and back again. |
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I drink any more I will drown—Bekka Bjorke I got drunk for the first time when I was eleven. I was new at my synagogue, and some of the girls who took me in snatched some bottles of wine from the kitchen and we gorged on them… By thirteen I drank whenever possible. |
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 Comeuppance
Police —Gabriel Caplan The Comeuppance Police are now hot on my trail. They think not, regarding my attempts at humor. They are out for justice. |
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Search of the Great White Bronco —Jeff Burns The author buys booze, and marks time, by the Crime of the 20th Century. |
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Finsbury Park Manifesto—Ernesto Priego Scholars, students, and human beings: if anyone asks you what poetry is, in the 21st century, you will find no better answer than this. |
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a Poem—Edgar Oliver In a rooming house a man is confined to a room with all his passions. Passions come. |
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/ Motility—Brian Christian The faint tingle was easy; I pointed the telescope, and the stars came quickly... |
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Rain too Heavy for Kites—Jeff Burns A serialized novella about lightning |
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Woman Without Her Neighborhood—Carmiel Banasky "I didn’t know much of the plan but it involved forming a cult to sabotage progress in our neighborhood. It was all Ginnie’s idea. We would use pig’s blood so no one could be implicated." |
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 Let’s
Misbehave—Daniel C. Metz A delightful story about the end of the world. |
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Virginia History—Elizabeth Rollins The ancestors tangle and compromise in re-telling. Their telling won’t be contained in neatly shaved, perfumed memory. |
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Thin End of the Wedge—Ben Stephens A review of the book Monkey Girl, which narrates the Intelligent Design battles of 2004 in Dover, PA |
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Lock-Step: Reading the Filipino Prison Culture-Jam—Meredith Talusan On YouTube, thousands of Filipino prisoners re-enact Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video and perform syncopated dance routines to American pop songs. An answer to our benighted justice system? A Filipino-American scholar asks us to look closer. |
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 Essay
on Man—David Schneider Etymology as a construction of species. |
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Evidence: 'Something Has Been Beheld for the First Time'' —Patrick Kurp “The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.” |
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Make Them Die Slowly—Stereolabrat Stereolabrat recives a gift. It is violent and obscene. She likes it. |
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