Arts & Culture
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4 poems by Lucas Wildner
Dance/Routine for Rafael . I At the second wedding, in between bass drum beats rattling bones to animate bodies into movement I find myself dancing...
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A poem by Emily Kendal Frey
PEOPLE WILL LIKE YOU IF YOU LIKE THEM FIRST I make you pork . Pork tenderloin . Herbs on the outside . I...
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2 poems by Oliver Bendorf
TEN TELEGRAMS FROM PARADISE 1. To wither a sensation possibility. The body feels more vulnerable. A man carrying a child across a track. Toes...
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Fiction Feature: “Artist Statement” (A Short Story)
by Christine Stoddard I pluck my hair from the root because my scalp can make the sacrifice. Because I want to create from my...
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Music Feature: Las Krudas Cubensi – “Mi Cuerpo es Mio” [VIDEO]
Las Krudas Cubensi are Cuban Hip Hop MCs, independent musicians, poets, and theater performers representing womyn, immigrants, queer people and people of color through action as...
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Poem Suite: Shards
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Poem Suite: Monsters
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Poem Suite: Becoming
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Poems by Lisa Ciccarello
from & if I die, make me how you are It is the sister inside him that makes him slow. She writes...
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Two Poems by Tsitsi Jaji
By Tsitsi Jaji Pause. (For All the Madibas)* There is a breath before the pendulum rends its center, A breath before what leapt...
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Fiction Feature: from “Kill Marguerite,” by Megan Milks
By Megan Milks This excerpt from the short story “Kill Marguerite” takes place after the protagonist, Caty, has already beat Level One and killed...
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Video Feature: List of Demands: Because Existing is a Privilege by Nicole Shantè White
By Nicole Shantè White This creative visual addresses queer invisibility by encompassing the intricacies of the Gay Liberation manifesto and the Black Panther Party’s...
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Excerpts from In the Away Time by Kristen Nelson
. January You called me She instead of You. “Where is she going now?” is the first question you ever asked me. You were standing on...
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Poems for Ferguson: Vanessa Huang and Aya de Leon
Two poets consider Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO, and the crucial ways in which Black Life Matters. How Do I Love Thee? A love...
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“Paws” by Tracy Burkholder
Paws In sixth grade, I started to envy certain girls’ hands. Not always manicured, but always neat. Fingers thin and smooth. These hands gently...
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3 Poems by Holly Mitchell
Slipping Under Like a ghost, I prepare a bath behind a door that hasn’t locked long as I remember. When my mother...
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Excerpts from Damnation by Janice Lee
CONFESSION Sometimes one willingly enters a dark and empty space, the creaking of the loose boards below, the phantom moonlight above. · I had a...
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Poem Suite: Silencing
Elie Wiesel writes, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps...
