I am from a place that I do not like to name because it feels so strange to say out loud. I am both proud and self conscious of where…
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Sit on the sofa with your daughter, Stella, watching videos of Tavi Gevinson, the girl who started fashion blogging as a preteen then parlayed that success into an online magazine…
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My mother read Dune to me when I was very young. At the time, I imagined the beginning of that book so vividly that it became a memory. It is…
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MOTHER’S DAY In her backyard my mother is hurling rocks at other people’s houses, surrounded by shovels and flowers, flinging dirt, screaming and searching for her husband. Everyone is…
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In her dark waters, the glowing moon hangs like a ripe pomegranate. I milk her body from within. I milk her body from without. Her pooling liquid: living, rushing. The…
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Twenty-one years old, already divorced with two children, I am of age but I don’t know how to be a mom and bread winner both. This particular morning, I am…
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My mother said she loved me whenever she and my sister and I sat down on the tattered couch in our three room furnished apartment in the Blackstone Mansions on…
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This is an excerpt from a longer essay. It has been edited down slightly for publication in Entropy. “For me, poetry was where I lived as no-one’s mother, where I existed…
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Detta climbed the stairs for the fifth time. She moved slowly, partly because she did not want to spill the bowl of soup she was trying to balance on a…
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Hey, what’s up? Well, I’ve been stung by a bee. Oh! Are you okay? Is it swelling? I think I should come home. You’re coming home? Yeah I think…
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MOTHER’S BUSINESS inside busan’s black market she runs cigarette cartons & spam pushes rice out to carts, carriages out to parking lots checking out openings closings & sale…
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some of the pictures are landscapes some of the pictures contain houses the houses in some of the pictures contain families but some of the pictures show only single figures…
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The following is a conversation between writers Desiree Cooper and Crystal Wilkinson regarding Cooper’s new novel Know Thy Mother. Desiree: I’m interested in why such a lyrical writer chose a novel in…
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For my 11th birthday my dad bought me a hockey stick and puck and all the requisite pads and guards. I spent my afternoons after school playing roller hockey on…
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