The History of a Voice by Jessica Jopp Headmistress Press, January 2021 Bookshop / Amazon 106 pages – poetry The mesmerizing cover of Jessica Jopp’s debut poetry collection, “The…
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You should put your headphones on when playing it, everyone said. I did. I always do. It really doesn’t matter what the game is. But it was Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice,…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFamilyPodcastsWalking with Tres Horny Boys; Finding narrative comfort in re-listening to The Adventure Zone: Balance podcast
Magnus Burnsides plaintively asks Paloma, “Did—did I make the right choice?” and I found myself sniffling, blaming it on the fresh chill as I walked through a swirl of dying…
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Image: Melissa Grunrow (left), Ming Lauren Holden (center), Chelsey Clammer (right) I’m falling apart all over the place in a hotel room in some godawful state that’s one-third of…
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* * * Choice You can sit back see what develops, only jump on the bandwagon if all goes well. If not, splay off saying I knew it wasn’t going to…
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I’m eating breakfast in the dining hall when the screen door bangs open. Marlon, the Camp High Pines swimming counselor, saunters over in his customary outfit of flip flops, white…
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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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* * * dirge for the bald eagle for vesta knee deep in galoshes and untamed chocolate mouth, i puddle among the rapids. ________our guide points to the east…
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Returning the Sword to the Stone by Mark Leidner Fonograf Editions, February 2021 SPD / Bookshop / Amazon 98 pages – poetry Once in graduate school, a friend complained…
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Demystifications by Miranda Mellis Solid Objects, June 2021 Preorder SPD / B&N 128 pages The smallness of our everyday lives has grown to epic proportions. We have survived the…
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I didn’t want to write about the break-up. I wanted to write about the Purple Martins: 150,000 of them who, on their way to Brazil, had stopped over in Nashville…
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The day the wolf appeared in her kitchen, she went to the sink and poured herself a glass of water. The wolf sank down on its skinny haunches, lifted its…
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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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Fork in hand, I mashed four thawed bananas—on the advice of the internet, I’d taken to freezing them in plastic bags—into about four ounces of applesauce. Vanilla extract entered next.…