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A young girl is standing at the window of a café, staring at the people dancing wildly inside. There is music warping through the glass, and the people are drunk.…

For this week’s Sunday’s List we asked Entropy contributors: What’s the last book you loved? Candrice Jones Mourner’s Bench by Sanderia Faye Bud Smith Sonora by Hannah Lillith Assadi Joanna…

Coco and I have been friends for maybe a decade—we don’t remember where we met but this is the nature of the Chicago community (and others, but the one I…

Compton-born Dr. Robin Coste Lewis was just appointed the new Los Angeles Poet Laureate. Winner of the 2015 National Book Award and a Provost’s Fellow in Poetry and Visual Studies…

Sarah Gerard’s new collection of essays, Sunshine State, dives into her childhood in Florida, her family history, systemic inequality, trauma, environmental decimation, death and the power of hope. I sat…

How do you teach children what is real? Or do you let them figure it out on their own? How do you do that when the first five years of…

Nocilla Experience by Agustín Fernández Mallo Translated by Thomas Bunstead Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016 200 pages – Fitzcarraldo / Amazon     1 SEAN CARROLL: When you actually do fall through the event…

The flight of birds, one bird of one species crossing a flock swirling, breathing together with their wings, a musical instrument of movement based on air—what does that mean to…

When she started hospice, my mother chose to go home rather than getting her care in the hospital. It sounded nicer, she said. Cozy. She was an optimist, even as…

I couldn’t remember if I had ever held a creature in my hands as it took its last breath. Here was this broken bird, legs twitching and tiny eyes filled…

Tales From the End of the Bus Line is a long-distance collaboration between daughter/father Megan and Bill Broughton to collect the many adventures of Bill’s young adulthood in Van Nuys,…

This is the twenty-seventh installment of Entropy’s small press new releases feature. If you are a small press and would like to see your upcoming titles listed here in the…

photo: Incongruous Activities, Jasmine Dreame Wagner 1 In the Aughts, coffee shop soundtracks were wet with reverb. I wondered if the music would sound so deep, so profound, if the production…

“I came into the room and I knew immediately. It was the smell of him, of his room, after he had been sleeping, in the mornings, when the room was…