Writing
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Poem Suite: Things
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, four poets consider...
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Fiction Feature: CORONA by Bushra Rehman
Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer) Corona, Queens 1983 Corona, and I’m not talking about the beer. I’m talking about a little village...
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Fiction Flash: Lyssa in Limbo
By Michelle Auerbach (Excerpt from The Third Kind of Horse) I stared hard at Melody, at the blonde tips of her hair and I knew,...
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I Love So That I May Teach
By Linh Hua In July 2008, my last formal teacher was brutally murdered. The formulation of that sentence—the recognition of that particular loss—only just recently...
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Earle J. Fisher on Love as a Radical Act
By Rev. Earle J. Fisher Sadly, it seems that love has become synonymous with cheap and self-centered lust. Radical individualism has overridden communal and corporate compassion....
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Rashida Harrison on Love as a Radical Act
By Rashida Harrison To be a feminist, for me, is a work of love. However, it was not until I wrote my dissertation, drawing on...
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Andre E. Johnson on Self-Love
By Andre E. Johnson The most radical love is self-love. In fact, I suggest that in order to love others, one must be able to...
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Love Notes in Four Parts
By Katrina Otuonye Like Letters …..I used to have dreams where I would read anonymous letters sent to my house. …..“I do not love you,”...
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She Called Me a Poet
By Candy Taaffe August 9, 2009 Finally official. . The love and mutual respect is what inspires the truth, ………….and the desire ………….to make happen...
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On Love, Action, and Lesbian-Feminism
By Julie R. Enszer Writing about lesbian-feminist publishers in the 1970s and 1980s, I am haunted. Often I wake with a fragment from a poem...
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For the Love of Freedom: Writing, Radical Praxis and the Transformative Power of a Slave’s Words
By Ernest L. Gibson, III When Frederick Douglass wrote “My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing...
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Rev. Kyndra Danyelle Frazier on Radical Love
By Rev. Kyndra Danyelle Frazier Love can radically be re-imagined as an emotive action and response shared by all sentient beings that creates, heightens, and...
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
By Raidah Shah Idil I am estranged from my father, and no, I don’t like talking about it. Why bring it up in the public sphere?...
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Takiyah Nur Amin on Love as a Radical Act
By Takiyah Nur Amin How might love be re-imagined as a radical praxis that can bring about social transformation? Those of us committed to social...
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Jamie Utt on Love as a Radical Act
By Jamie Utt Everything in our popular lore and culture teaches us that love is a feeling, a whimsical but ephemeral emotion that’s all-consuming for...
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On Refusal, Privilege, and the Calcifying of the Soul
By Jason Craige Harris I am Other. When I come knocking at the door of your soul, you may refuse me, but not without consequence....
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Love letter to white people
By Joe Osmundson White people, I love you. I really do. Not because I am a white person myself. This is not a story of...
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A Radical Love Letter to my son
By Sarah Mantilla Griffin Dear Son, I love you. I have chosen how to love you. I love you radically, and I hope that this...
