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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Meredith Russo was born, raised, and currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is a mother to a wonderful four year old, a terrible cat, and a host of exciting neuroses.…
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When a person at a family event asks me what I like to do in my spare time, and I say “cook,” my mother invariably chimes in with this story…
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Carolina Ebeid was born in West New York, NJ and is the author of You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior (Noemi Press). She holds an MFA from the Michener Center…
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Growing up in Texas meant vast options of fast food, even for my Chinese-American family whose eating habits leaned toward Buddhist vegetarian. As a matter of fact, it always seemed…
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1976: This cursed bloodline begat me. Cries at cold air. The beginnings of pain. 1979: Health freak mother teaches me that soda pop and the red cherries on top of…
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In one month, we’ll meet their daughter. For now, we navigate runny duck yolks. “It’s not worth it,” her partner says. “You’re in the final stretch.” Instead we order cheese…
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Jos Charles is a trans poet, translator, editor, and author of feeld, a National Book Award long-listed finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed…
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“Wait, you’ve never had a plum?!” My father stares at me, incredulous. It is mid-May, 2015. My father, mother, and I are sitting at our kitchen table, talking over empty…