Here is a list of things you can eat that will fill your stomach, not your conscience: Diet Coke Lettuce Trident gum Cigarettes Cigarettes don’t fill your stomach, they fill…
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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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Nocilla Experience by Agustín Fernández Mallo Translated by Thomas Bunstead Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016 200 pages – Fitzcarraldo / Amazon 1 SEAN CARROLL: When you actually do fall through the event…
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I was first introduced to Maged Zaher—the poet and the person—via our mutual friend Jen Hofer. 2014, AWP, Maged’s adopted home town of Seattle, WA. But we did not meet…
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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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ConversationFictionInterviewLiterature“The exception to what is human about being human”: A Conversation With Jason Snyder
Before we banish the term “unflinching” from our critical vocabulary forever, we might permit it one last flourish, and in the direction of Jason Snyder’s Family Album. For here is…
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Ban En Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil Nightboat Books, 2015 112 pages – Nightboat / Amazon There are pieces you plan to write and pieces that defy all forms of planning,…
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Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015 136 pages – Timeless, Infinite Light / Amazon “When I was a music journalist,” begins Amy Berkowitz’s book-length lyric essay Tender Points,…