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2030 “Ladies and gentlemen, please!” Georgie likes me to pause here; […]
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In the Dark As kids, we played mostly in basements. At our farmhouse. At our piano teacher’s […]
Fields of Vision by Rachael Peckham
If she put her head down and didn’t listen to a goddamn thing anyone else said, she […]
If by Anya Achtenberg
sea. waves. woman. (a tritina) At the edge of the water, someone waves, mirrors the movement of […]
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Anne Sweigart sits in a Cleveland diner crowded with grim truckers […]
Light Year by Edward Hamlin
Imagine a yellow that first turns red then white. Imagine a woman immersed in it, dressed in […]
Pictures gleaned from a garbage bin by Mustafa Ziyalan
planted a heel/ against his chest, wrenched the spear from his wound/ and the midriff came with […]
Morgan: A Lyric by Boyer Rickel
Three years before his death in 1987 at the age of sixty three, James Baldwin recounted in an […]
The Unusual Door: Preliminary Notes on James Baldwin and Pedagogy ...
One afternoon, my daughter Edith asked me where the phrase, “Houston, we have a problem,” came from. […]
Radio Silence by Jeneva Stone
The zzzzzz’s above Neel’s head were real. A speech balloon, liquidly translucent with foot-high gray letters […]
The Crazening by Andy Bailey
1. Dear President Romney, “For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and […]