AudioPoetry

Auto-Immune

By Destiny Birdsong February 27, 2019

I am destined to infuse / survival with meaning, like honey clotting in syringes.

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Essay

What Remains

By Jacqueline Alnes February 21, 2019

How can I write a history of myself without remembering? And why am I compelled to?

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Fiction

Major Long Talks to His Horse

Fiction by Terese Svoboda February 20, 2019

Innumerable buffalo have the temerity to appear at a distance just as he is solving the problem of the design of a steam carriage. Link them together! he shouts to his horse.

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Poetry

Swimming Pool

Poetry by Aleš Šteger, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry February 18, 2019

I accept everything. I renounce everything. / I sink into everything, clothed only in a wet beard.

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Essay

White Witchery

By Elissa Washuta February 14, 2019

I just want a version of the occult that isn’t built on plunder, but I suspect that if we could excise the stolen pieces, there would be nothing left.

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Interview

Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty

By Regan Penaluna January 30, 2019

The philosopher on how our appearance intolerance hinders ideas and human flourishing

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Poetry

The Meal

Poetry by Gemma Gorga, translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin January 10, 2019

death reviews the menu for the umpteenth time, / repeats our names between its teeth

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Poetry

/ˈməT͟Hər/

Poetry by Tiana Nobile December 21, 2018

We tend to our roles like we tend to a fire, / poking the coals with the blazing tip of an iron.

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Poetry

Blind River

Poetry by Diane Mehta December 13, 2018

We have long ties to sunlight, / equations that always solve for equality.

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Interview

Tyrese Coleman: Writing the Truth, Unbound by Genre

By Sarah Kasbeer December 5, 2018

The author of How to Sit discusses her mixed genre, multi-generational essays about black girlhood, womanhood, trauma, and triumph.

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Poetry

The Weight of the Sun

Poetry by Charlotte Pence November 21, 2018

I like being / reminded that we all began in dark and stars

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