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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…

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…