To Know Better Our Friends
A Manifesto for Consideration— The gospel tells us that everything is in the poems. The next illogical thing to do is to try and find those things. What are those things anyway? Our last century made...
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by Erica Shultz All I could do was breath sighs of relief. I arrived in Tucson ten hours late and waited at A Shot in the Dark, a 24/7 café, until the Roadrunner hostel opened for registration. It was...
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Private Club I was a member now–secret handshake, passcodes, duties and privileges. Outside on the street I could spot other members too. I saw them take advantage, steal for themselves, and smile it...
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Glass Sundays, my neighbor brings his glass collection out on his lawn. His Korean girlfriend sits next to him, petting a cat on her lap. She waves at everyone, as if she were queen of the town. The...
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Getting ready for AWP… There’s a version (arrows!) at Vanity Fair. Who knew?
View Articleshort short short story by Michael McCanne
An Annotated History of the Glasnost Cabaret The Glasnost Cabaret had it its first and only showing in the autumn of 1986, performed on a secondary stage of a no-name theater in the periphery of East...
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She gets slapped like BAMMM right in the face Menlo Park- Josefina grabs Monica by her long, black ponytail, pulling with the force of everything Latina. As her grip tightens and Monica drops to the...
View ArticleDjuna Barnes bloghot for James Joyce
Or at least she was, back in 1922. Old Magazine Articles is all kinds of sunday fun.
View Articleshort short short story by Kulpreet Yadav
The Traffic The vehicles, the people, the animals, all swam around me like a badly directed movie. But Rita wasn’t there. A buffalo chased a dog and was hit by a car. I sneezed and suddenly she was...
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