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American Story is a temporary series edited by Jasmine Anderson. Check out the rest of the series: American Story. A news ticker whizzes past at the bottom of the frame,…

American Story is a temporary series edited by Jasmine Anderson. Check out the rest of the series: American Story. Tom Thumb is a traveling storyteller who began Scarecrow President as a…

WLP + CCM + ENTROPY Three independent publishing entities with common goals of publishing vital and exciting literature, building and participating in community, and contributing and promoting good literary citizenship,…

What I know about grief, but what I choose to ignore until it becomes relevant, is that sometimes take a shower, brush your hair, put on make-up, get dressed become…

“I’m going on a month-long road-trip-as-performative-experiment across America exploring how social media maps geographically, fueled by the cues and consideration of a social media public figure’s followers/readership. Beginning on the…

Newsha Tavakolian’s album, Look (2013), can be viewed as the culmination of the developmental process her photographic language had to undergo under the restrictive politics of Iran. The students’ uprising…

On May 9th, 2017, President Donald Trump fired F.B.I Director James Comey. This poem is an erasure cut directly from the President’s letter informing James Comey of his termination. —…

Jack Mueller moved water, moved digital trillions. No less to more than a guess, Jack was the new molecule of free speech, changing worlds by changing meanings. In his life,…

On a rainy April evening, as Barnard students stumble past one another, unable to see over their open umbrellas, Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand convene for a symposium on the…

PART 1: RUSSELL JAFFE “Don’t use third person when you’re talking about yourself.” –Chorus of Lost Spirits of English teachers Russell Jaffe is going to the forest preserve & leaving…

While Little Rock artist and art teacher Laura Raborn generally focuses on figurative oil paintings, the weeks before the November 8th Presidential election impelled her to create collages incorporating Donald…

by which I think you mean—you’ll correct me if I’m wrong—that the arts aren’t really, if we get down to it, necessary. With that, I’m inclined to agree. Neither is…

In early February, a few of my classmates and I visited Washington, D.C. for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. While I’m interested in politics, I’m first…

I am not an avid protester, despite my history as a graduate from a proud hippie-college and my work with the National Organization for Women in my twenties. The t-shirt…