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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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…
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In a photograph taped to the wall of my room, my mother is running through sand, emerging from water. Her left arm is lifted, blurred, as she sweeps hair from…
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Snow Days. They’re legendary. Mythical. Great, white unicorns or whales we chase in our sleep, wake up wishing we had caught or had caught us in the eye of their…
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In 1992, a twelve year old boy rented a movie from his local Blockbuster which featured a blonde cheerleader who also happened to be a vampire slayer. I had fantastic…
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. —Rosa Luxemburg I do believe there might be ways in language to express the extreme, the fleeting, the fugitive states that…
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Judy Garland’s ruby slippers as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 Wizard of Oz. Photographed by Kevin Burkett. When my niece was eight, I took her shopping to buy new…
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Featherbone by Erica Mena Ricochet Editions, 2015 56 pages, 2015 – Ricochet / Amazon What is your interpretation of the Icarus myth? Do you see it as a tragedy of…
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Transitory Poetics is a monthly review series by Toby Altman focused solely on current and upcoming chapbooks. You can read the introduction here. This month I reviewed three chapbooks from Projective Industries: Kate Schapira’s Someone…
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Interactive LiteratureLiteraturePoetryReviewQueerness & Contemporary Poetic Performance: Violent Utopia of the Body
I sit down to write an essay about contemporary poetic performance and I am in the kitchen with my roommate Brendan. He is a white cis hetero Canadian male. Yesterday…
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“Wear red,” we were told. The occasion was the memorial for and celebration of Candida Royalle, the “Grace Kelly of porn,” who not only was an iconic sex goddess—beginning her…
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1. Paper Girls (No. 1, Oct 2015, Image) – Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson All kinds of awesome, Paper Girls has quickly made it onto the top…
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1. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (No. 4, June 2015, Marvel) – Ryan North, Erica Henderson & Rico Renzi Neck and neck with Nick Spencer’s Ant-Man, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is…
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Dorothy Iannone: You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends by Dorothy Iannone Siglio Press, 2015 320 pages – Siglio / Amazon Dorothy Iannone: You Who Read…