[Image: Blue Noon by Lucie Bonvalet] I. The Desert From the peak of the tallest mountain, I can see the whole blue desert with its graphite sun. Our sun…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Kendra DeColo is the author of My Dinner with Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016) and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia…
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Viraha There was no country home enough to collect every childhood I had to strip off. Just the chatter of breeze puzzling the quiet rajnigandha. An early knowledge…
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When I was ten, and my sister, Eunice, was eleven, we made a suicide pact. With a rusty hacksaw we snitched from my father’s workbench; we huddled on the wooden…
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— For Sam Draemon Sleep Out Loud Not twins Exhaustion & Sleep Come birds — land on my arm — and show me the rest of flight …
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Sung with such soulfulness, Richard Murray offers stories from a life lived most fully on the poetic “The Long Haul”. With firm roots in a traditional rustic country charm the…
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A Girl Goes into the Forest by Peg Alford Pursell Dzanc Books, July 2019 240 pages/ Amazon Peg Alford Pursell’s second book, A Girl Goes into the Forest, is a collection…
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This summer I met Joshua Byron who writes with Alfredo Franco for the brilliantly written, acted, and filmed TV show Trans Monogamist. Joshua told me that they are also a…
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Blast Grave Robbert’s “The Nightmare Begins” as loud as you possibly can, for this is a physical assault on the senses. A pure piece of unhinged chaos, this is a…
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Nuri İyem, a prominent Turkish painter (1915-2005), is best known for painting sad faces and Anatolian migrants. These were his signature themes. İyem’s good friend, the famous Turkish author Ahmet…
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In sixth grade, my family’s brand-new minivan exploded. The smell of burning rubber blotted out the smell of concession stand burgers that evening from its parking spot across the street…
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Peter Arvidson’s “A New Wilderness” has a dreamy, literary bent to it. The lyrics have an impressionistic quality to them as they tell stories of lives lived to the absolute…
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Original artwork by Flynn Nicholls.
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