A velvet patterned Thanksgiving dress drops over my bulletproof vest. Sports bra over black mesh restricts buckle bulges. The vest’s bulky belt further puffs flaring skirt. Meant to hold guns,…
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Grady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums, winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in June 2018. He was a 2015-2017 Wallace Stegner Fellow…
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Tiana Clark is the author of Equilibrium, selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. She is the winner of the 2017 Furious Flower’s Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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I spoon cobbler with nectarines from my aunt and uncle’s tree from a ramekin at Sunday Dinner. Mention the pumpkin and key lime pies with Paleo crust I’m bringing for…
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During a wakeful moment in the middle of the night, I hear the sound of fabric tearing. In the morning I see that my blue and white striped bedsheet has…
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I begin with putting on makeup for Thanksgiving dinner. San Diego at my parents’ house in that near-apocalypse feeling fall of 2015. Gold dust across eyelids. Gold sparkle at crease.…
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first celebration of Thanksgiving “was held by the Plymouth colony in 1621, in thankfulness for their first harvest in America after a year of…
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Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. I’m lucky enough to have never known what Black Friday was until I was about eighteen and was meant to work…
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“8 Things The History Books Don’t Tell Us About Native People” (Everyday Feminism, 11/8) Emily Bartran weighs in on online discourse in the wake of national tragedy. (Elephant, 11/24) Blake…