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Dumpster Chicken

Oriana Reilly -
1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

Field Notes

Nevermore

Cathy Schen -
This trail also led me to conclude, firstly, that so many things remain quietly connected, and secondly, that history is the unceasing attempt to...

Generations

Letting Go: The History of New York City

Jenny Moye -
“Don’t worry about it, New York City makes a lot of people cry,” so says my student, Laura. But still I wonder — why...

In Sickness and In Health

Backtalk

Anne Kenner -
In the 1960’s, Alice Kramden was my television hero for standing up to her loser husband on The Honeymooners. “One of these days, Alice,” Ralph...

Reviews

An Interview with Hesse Phillips, Author of Lightborne

Whitney Scharer -
On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne Famed poet and playwright Christopher...

The Sounding Board

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

Linda Strange -
On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Essay & Memoir

Teaching in the Times of Genocide

Nayiri Baboudjian Bouchakjian -
September 27, 2024. Beirut. We have already lost one of our students. No. We have not lost him. He was killed. Murdered. Yes. Murdered in Beirut....

Life is Sweet in the Belly of the Beast

Lorena Hernández Leonard -

Telling Secrets

Bethany Wiersma -

The Silent Ones

Nina Gilden Seavey -

Nothing Person, 1970s

Bobbie Wayne -

Fiction

Maybe the Sun and Ten Years After 16

Francine Witte -
Maybe the Sun Looked like it would stay forever in the sky that day. Maybe the man on the porch and leaning against the house...

Friedman at the Reins

Mathew Goldberg -

The Puma Way

Susan Fox -

Keep the Change

Joseph Moldover -

The God of Luck

Jaime Gill -

Poetry

Edge Habitat

Elizabeth Moore -
Come / home. Everything is begging you.
 — Ada Limón We come upon it rounding the edge of Brook Hollow — the sign that marks the verge along...

Teeth Beneath the Surface

Brian Builta -

Two Poems: Our Town Becomes a Number and March Mud Season Rap

Alice Haines -

Self-Portrait

Preet Bhela -

Two Poems: Rutherford County and Study

Keith T. Fancher -

Advice

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading

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