NICK FRANCIS POTTER is the author of New Animals (Subito Press, 2016). He currently teaches in the Digital Storytelling Program at the University of Missouri. Read our 2015 interview with…
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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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Because Love is a Roar: Sketching a Critical Race Poetics
by Jason Magabo Perez February 18, 2019Featured Image Credit: Still from Stranger Here, Jason Magabo Perez (2015) An early version of this essay was delivered during a panel titled “Pressure Points in the Language Contract: Interdisciplinary Text-Based…
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Reading Always Got Me Out of Hell: Bud Smith On Fever Dreams, Publishers, And Making Art NOW
by Andrew Byrds February 15, 2019About a year ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Bud Smith for my inaugural interview for Entropy about his then newly published memoir, WORK. As we approach the official one…
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Foster Care: Not All Families Belong Together
by Guest Contributor February 14, 2019Image Credit: Emma Margraf I sat in a small and dirty conference room with a young mother and her lawyer for hours before she decided to sign away her…
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WOVEN: In Your Sleep: A Me Too Story By a Woman with Developmental Disabilities
by Guest Contributor February 13, 2019WOVEN 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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I am supposed to be writing a fictional story. There’s a deadline hovering over me. I am in grad school and living in a four-walled box of a dorm room.…
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Conjure That Emo Teen Within: Leza Cantoral On Dreaming Selves, Instagram Poetry, And the Fleshy Reality of Now
by Andrew Byrds February 7, 2019This poetry collection is not mature or thoughtful. It is for the angry & petty emo teen in all of us. TRASH PANDA is a dialogue with social media, pop…
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Literacy Narrative: Hold the Air
by Guest Contributor February 7, 2019One of the worst things is when people tell you that you look okay. People you hoped would know “I’m fine” means I’m scared, and “I’m OK” warrants a hug.…
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WOVEN: Survivors Are Not a Monolith; I’m Not a “Survivor”
by Guest Contributor February 6, 2019WOVEN 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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I Was Born From a Woman Whose Body Was Stolen
by Guest Contributor February 5, 2019I was born in a snowstorm from a woman whose body was stolen. She was knocked out and drugged up hours after arriving at the hospital where she planned to…
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Welcome, friends! I’m Laura Paul, and I’m happy to be serving the Entropy community as its resident astrologer. Each month I’ll be crafting horoscopes for you by sign, as well…
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We’re All Constantly Becoming: Alex DiFrancesco On Looking Outward and Inward, Safety Nets, and PSYCHOPOMPS
by Andrew Byrds January 30, 2019PSYCHOPOMPS releases on Febuary 19th from Civil Coping Mechanisms, and is now available for pre-order. A//Byrds: In the first essay of your collection, you extol on and also lament the…
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The Birds: Seeds, Feathers, and Hope: birdwatching in Buenos Aires
by Guest Contributor January 30, 2019“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if…