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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…

The Fakery of ‘Fake News’ I remember the days when we all got our news in the morning or evening at 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock or 11 o’clock from one…

Tonight, after the blackout on Mami’s native island, there is no sleep on my side of American country. Instead, there is Mami’s isla del encanto, smeared across my black eyes,…

And she exploded: “Oh yes, yes, we were well off the same in Germany, we were, and you know what? One night they slaughter us. We were fine but one…

I learned about the afterlife in pre-school, from a boy named Brian: “When Jews die they go to hell, where they are stabbed by the devil with giant forks and…

Photo Credit: Benjamin M. Johnson   This is not a meditation on cannibalism or its function as “last taboo” but a direct translation of my kidneys, which are the shape…

As we huddle in a corner of our smallest room, I wonder how I never noticed the similarities between “window” and “wind”. I guess I never had a reason to…

Image Credit: Liat Berdugo, Hat Credit: Lee Tusman   Often we work with holes. In understanding. Often set out without knowing where. Often distrust narratives. Never need struggle over the…

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…