Lately, I’ve been consumed with the need to dig. That’s how I ended up one summer rummaging through boxes of declassified documents at the National Security Archive, a non-profit archival…
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When I was in fifth grade, my grandma signed me up to dance at the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration at our Vietnamese Catholic church, Trung Tam, which means center, but has…
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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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Instrument for Distributed Empathy Monetization by William Lessard Kernpunkt Press, forthcoming April 2022 As I read and reread Instrument for Distributed Empathy Monetization by poet, experimental writer and editor…
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Image Credit: Author’s brother Charlie, mother, and self A member of my Loss of a Parent Grief Support Group told us over a Zoom meeting in July that she…
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Bloodwarm by Taylor Byas Variant Literature, July 2021 34 pages – poetry Bloodwarm is a beautifully enticing and hauntingly sophisticated body of work. This book latches on, digs in…
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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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DAYS by Simone Kearney Belladonna*, May 2021 Amazon 120 pages – poetry Visual artist and writer Simone Kearney’s debut full length poetry collection, DAYS, is a tour de force in…
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* * * Lich Fowl Translates to “corpse bird.” There was a belief in Irish folklore that the souls of unbaptised children were doomed to wander in nightjar form until…
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featured photo: every needle and rootlet, by Mollie Oblinger wood, yarn, 28”x44”x10”, 2013 * * * The Myth of the Underage Woman What I think is a hummingbird, heart rate…
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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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Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar Graywolf Press, August 2021 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 80 pages – poetry This is a text to be read through the body. In…
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At 4:00 p.m., the winds came from the east and not the west at 65mph, sustained for thirty minutes–a straight-line wind it’s called. From a drone’s view, the wind hit…
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When strangers ask what I do for a living and I say I work in foster care, they often respond, “I could never work with ‘those’ people.” They draw a…
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