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by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Translated by John Pluecker   When it came time for the French biologist Jacques Monod to title his extraordinary book Chance and Necessity: Essay on the…

TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to sexual assault and violence that may be triggering to some. In early April, my boyfriend and I were walking in the little park…

Stacey Ryan did not think of himself as the hero of an environmental justice documentary. Ryan agreed to work with filmmaker Alexander Glustrom and the team of Mossville: When Great…

How are you? I’m pretty sure we’re all so paralyzed with anxiety, we haven’t fully processed the cancellations and lost opportunities that the coronavirus pandemic is inflicting upon our careers…

Update 3/3/20: Please read AWP’s latest statement and double-check all event listings and event pages as many events have been canceled. Also check updates on the book fair, as many…

Photographs: © Isa Leshko My grandmother turned 86 in June, and, since then, she has been having some health and memory problems. It’s been sad and frustrating to watch her in…

Atop a white pedestal near the rear of David B. Smith Gallery’s main exhibition space sits a pink 13” x 13” x 13” cube. The artwork, titled “How many Pinkie…

Last year at #AWP18, in lieu of being able to secure an event space for the CCM/Entropy AWP reading, I brainstormed an idea to still have, in some small way,…

#AWP19 is happening soon. This this year, it’s going to be a big one. Not only are we expecting a particularly large crowd this year (everyone seems to be excited…

It’s the tail end of January, which means we are approaching the most dreadful time of the year. With every February comes a whole panoply of perils: record-low temperatures, flu…

Urbanscapes provide a centrally-located space for people to coalesce: a place where we can exchange ideas, experiences, intimacies, and aesthetics. At its best, such spaces provide us with the ability…

I was twelve in July of 1993, the summer of Gits frontwoman Mia Zapata’s murder- though I wouldn’t know of her for another six years . I was in my…

Featured Image Credit: Vincent Vazquez One thing I have always struggled with as a teacher is getting families involved. The students themselves you can generally get involved if the lesson…

#AWP18 is happening next week. And yes, it’s been one hell of a year since the last one. We know. We’ve all got a lot going on. And are you…