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A Declaration: Forbidding Mourning

This is a time we’d like to forget a virulent inflection that pains and yet cannot last unless we let it, This is the way it flows, a ...
On June 24, 2019 / By Bruce Robinson
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Are You a Self-Identified Black Woman?

Are you eligible to partake in academia? Question your acceptance letter? Not writing the other perspective? Missing the point of the assignment? Do you get Tarantino’s postmodern ...
On May 19, 2019 / By Krysten Hill
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Horizon

A giant copper moon flares on the lake in the early dark, and on the car radio, talk. Talk trying to chew despair. Talk about fear to hide ...
On May 12, 2019 / By Richard Hoffman
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A Can of Pinto Beans

Robbie Gamble: For the past several summers I have spent time on the Arizona/Mexico border, working with an organization that provides medical and material aid to migrants ...
On April 8, 2019 / By Robbie Gamble
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An Odyssey

Day like rain, a cast iron crow Furling its wings in thin emptiness My heavy body holds the wound Deep inside black iron cloud Raining down when the ...
On February 7, 2019 / By Kazim Ali
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1-800-HOT-CHAT

It’s such a dumb thing small thing. Right? I’m on the phone faking this guy out. Maybe some regular. He can’t know that I pick toe jam out ...
On February 5, 2019 / By Jennifer Jean
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Henry and Ralph

To open separate window, click button on upper right of display Image: “Beauty of Twilight ” by Eddi van W. , licensed under CC 2.0 ...
On January 12, 2019 / By Regie Gibson
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Aiding and Abetting

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone . . . –DJT, 2016 you want to replicate a Glock so you let your ...
On December 16, 2018 / By Fred Marchant
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Civilization

October 2017 as in Boston as what it looks like when you leave it taking off your ...
On December 16, 2018 / By Stephanie Burt
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After the President Calls Citizens ‘Sons of Bitches’

As I watch the line of men drop to their knees, refusing to praise the God of country, the most jealous and vengeful God of all, I am ...
On November 20, 2018 / By Anne Champion
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Female Pattern Balding

The pursuit of beauty comes to this. Selecting a wig color that will best match your eyebrows. Code gender as a form of hypertext. Insert any parenthetical equation. ...
On June 3, 2018 / By Janice N. Harrington
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This Gesture

Look what we have here: some books bought with a student’s savings, as if land purchased for a house that you might never build. Plato, Hegel, The Marxist ...
On March 11, 2018 / By Luljeta Lleshanaku