[Image: “Firemoon,” by Daria Hlazatova] On the drive to the Bronx, Martha remembers the saints. Seeing a life past them is like seeing past the rain that flowers on her…
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‘Damn that television! what a bad picture!’—A said bad memories can erase the good ones, like a hotel where an entire floor is shut down because of all the broken…
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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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I Horizons within the negative spaces of my body were lakes hovering above the road. I follow U. S. 54 from Wichita to the junction with Interstate 10 in…
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Perhaps the rivers of ink that have been expended discussing the nature of the ‘continuous’ over the centuries…have been wasted. Continuity is only a mathematical technique for approximating very finely…
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My boyfriend bought the bunnies for me on Easter day of my sophomore year in college. It was the sort of ludicrous, stupid, expensive thing he was always doing for…
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“It’s about a man that is ‘apart from,’ at the beginning; he becomes a part of only at the end. The premise of it was that what’s broken is healed…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayLiteracy Narrative: Of Cider Jugs and Sunbeams: Wordsworthian Reflections on Autobiography and Memory
In Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem The Prelude—one of the great memory-epics, along with Proust’s—there is a section describing the process of recollection that speaks to me with particular relevance right now.…
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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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* * * A poem should have birds. All of them are mimics, opera singers, warriors. Pure spirit. From my deck I see a dove pace circles around a pit…
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It had become the norm watching Cleve nod off. It was usually in the middle of doing something: smoking a cigarette, eating, assembling a model airplane. When he awoke, his…
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When a person at a family event asks me what I like to do in my spare time, and I say “cook,” my mother invariably chimes in with this story…
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Giving Godhead by Dylan Krieger Delete Press, February 2017 82 pages / Amazon / Delete Serenade by Brooke Ellsworth Octopus Books, November 2017 109 pages / Amazon / Octopus …
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In the third season of True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto has expertly circumnavigated the bait-and-switch prerogatives we’ve come to expect with the genre of true crime; he’s played on our perverse…
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