Pilgrim Hawk The library ripples as if dispossessed when it sees the peregrine weltering over the city, sparking hammer on a gray anvil sky: Won’t you come down quicker…
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SAM NAKAHIRA is a MFA candidate at the Center for Cartoon Studies and a 2019 graduate of Grinnell College. She writes about things that interest her: food, pop culture,…
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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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In the inner core of our minds can be great struggle. A struggle which can force us to curl up into a ball. Those days spent uninspired and jaded, can…
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These poems are excerpts from the author’s book project Buena Vista. Told through a collection of flash fiction, short plays, lists, letters and essays, Buena Vista loosely chronicles the author’s journeys…
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Arsenal/Sin Documentos by Francesco Levato Clash Books, August 2019 162 pages / Amazon Francesco Levato’s Arsenal/Sin Documentos is, in a single word, timely. Comprised of 15 sections of blackout…
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HOLDING THE LOOSE BONES CLOSE My mother the morning of her surgery lies in a room where I am not The angelbones her hair is tied fraying in hospital…
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Out of Syllabus by Sumana Roy Speaking Tiger Books, March 2019 138 pages / Amazon Out of Syllabus is Sumana Roy’s debut poetry collection. Roy, much acclaimed for her…
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I was driving the old blue Volvo northbound on U.S. Route 89 through Chino Valley, bound for Las Vegas, while feeling content just to drift in and out of the…
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The last time I belonged there, I straddled the steam hissing off the asphalt with my right foot on the curb at Charlotte Douglas International and my left on the rubber mat…
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Did all friendships … involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? –Zadie Smith, Swing Time My friendship with Lila began the day we decided…
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fulfilling forgiveness as a skyline embodying , embroidering , holding patterns caused by a lifetime of regretting an accidental act of killing . you will have caused it to happen…
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Josh Denslow’s Not Everyone Is Special has been been out since the end of March. It’s great. You should read it. I think we started this conversation in February. Today…
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Two armed guards with tasers and guns strapped to their hips will search our packages and purses as we enter my synagogue to attend services on Rosh Hashanah. A guard…
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