* * * Tillandsia Tillandsia; quiet birds of the forests, Perched and flocked ‘tween ebbing bark, of arboreal tenements; nests, of tropical richness where dreams embark. “What of life do…
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On Saturday, November 7th, 2020, four days after election day, all of the major news outlets called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. During the previous four days, which…
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Paper Goong-goong Upon watching the PBS documentary on Asian Americans, my Mother texts us: I now know why my father did not want to talk about WWII or the past.…
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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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A woman who changes her hair is about to change her life. — Coco Chanel My hair started to fall out strand by strand instead of in the large, dramatic…
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I never knew my lola. Every few months, I would hear her voice crackle through the phone from the other side of the Earth. On the mantel, I would see…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Covalence: An Essay on Classical Constructs and the Self
by Guest Contributor June 1, 2020Metaphors matter. They shoot the right smile, the right handshake, the right colors, posters squirreling. They eye the right clock, ready their knees to implode with the right cascade of…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
The Bind(ers) of Being Constantly Photographed
by Guest Contributor May 29, 2020The photographic documentation of my life began a few weeks after I was born, and the photograph albums in my childhood home are evidence of my mother’s presence and obsession…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Literacy Narrative: The Body (Electric)
by Guest Contributor May 14, 2020Image Credit: Eliza Moore 1 I imagine Walt Whitman’s body Walt Whitman, an. American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly fleshy and sensual, eating and drinking…
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If I could start at the beginning, I would start with the blanket: blue with white polka dots. Or was it pink, with the edges so tattered you could stick…
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Image Credit: Jesse Shofner Last winter, your father asked if “queer” was still a slur. He asked this carefully, as he always does when it comes to your sexuality.…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedPoetry
WOVEN: No Inciting Incident: Memory as Blank Space
by Guest Contributor April 8, 2020WOVEN 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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We arrive just in time to catch the tail end of the Youth Talent Showcase, drawn through the maze of fried-food stalls and dim animal-smelling warehouses by a thin, brave…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
The Birds: The Unconcern of Eagles
by Guest Contributor February 17, 2020My turn, my turn, my turn! My kids shriek and race around the house, bickering over who gets to use the something next. It doesn’t really matter what it is.…