Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir and six poetry collections, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was awarded an…
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My Saturday nights these days are booked out for months at a time. They’re earmarked for the sole purpose of settling in for the latest episode of a reality TV…
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Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay, published by Milkweed Editions in February 2018. She is also the…
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The moon waxes in Libra to full Strawberry moon. High summer. I remember vividly the 2016 Strawberry moon. Los Angeles. My boyfriend and I gobbled succulent Barbacoa quesadillas. I stayed…
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Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry and other literary journals. Her poetry collection ATRIUM (Three Rooms…
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“Fast away the New Year passes.” I hear sifting through profiles. Swiping my phone with sweaty hands. Interviewing every queer in Reno not frightened of me. It’s on like Donkey…
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Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and myriad keen tweets including “sittin on the cock of gay.” Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation…
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José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was awarded the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, and it was named a…
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CA Conrad is a 2019 Creative Capital Fellow, and the author of 9 books of poetry and essays. While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books), received the 2018 Lambda…
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I am furious. I am ferocious. My rage could devour the world. It is not appropriate to express. Other than to my therapist. For one hour. Once a week. Perhaps…
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Kay Gabriel is a brilliant, smutty poet who also happens to be excellent at taking the kind of Instagram pictures of her vegan food (as well as her outfits) that…
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At 22 years old, Blythe Baird is one of the most recognizable names in spoken word and slam poetry. The viral and award-winning writer has garnered international recognition for her poems…
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Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow; her most recent collection of poems, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS, was selected as Agape…
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It wasn’t the best of times. I was out of work and out of luck, and as my financial situation slumped and food prices soared, I responded by trimming the fat from my…
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