* * * BIRDS Megan Heise Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now – Bob Ross Put a bird on it! – Portlandia …
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When Stalin collectivized Russian peasant agriculture, goods disappeared from the stores. The rationing system devised for bread and other items lead to the infamous bread lines of the Soviet bloc. …
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When the stove in my Brooklyn apartment started to leak gas last year, the gas company sent a technician, a burly man with a sunburned scalp, who told me that…
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Image Credit: Touann Gatouillat Vergos Money is the opposite of magic. Art is magic. The worlds of art and money are constantly intermingling. To survive this mixture the magic in…
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NICK EARHART lives in Pasadena, California, near Allendale Park. He is writing a dissertation on art, infrastructure, and urban space, and he also likes to draw and play guitar.…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayMy Grandfather Survived the 1918 Pandemic, Only To Be Bitten by the African Tse-Tse Fly
“Don’t move.” From the passenger seat behind me, Bryan grabbed my headrest and pulled himself up. “That is one big bug,” he said with excess enthusiasm. “Where?” I whispered. “On top…
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When my parents drove me from Dallas to New York City for college, we hid one of Dad’s handguns in the compartment under my feet in the back seat. I…
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ND/SA publishes new poetry chapbook manuscripts by emerging, diverse New York City writers. We are generally excited by a unified text with a strong sense of voice and purpose and a startling use of beautiful, difficult language.
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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 two chapbooks by poets who work in New…
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This is the thirty-sixth in Entropy’s small press interview series, where we ask editors about their origins, their mission, and what it’s like to run a press. Find the other interviews from…
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Be A Dead Girl by Krystal Languell Argos Books, 2014 Argos Books dd Yeah, I’m sitting here on Washington Ave with this yogurt & this cappuccino. And, yeah, I put…
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*New York cityscape images are courtesy of Charlotte Popper Dear Joan, I read Goodbye to All That a couple of days after I had moved down to Stuyvesant Town from…