All posts tagged "arts and culture"
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Poem: ““you realize adults know nothing about girls when they ask you extra dumb questions”
By Jacklyn Janeksela just as i swallowed a spoonful of peanut butter or right when i swallow a spoonful of peanut butter she asks me...
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Fiction: “Nature, Nurture”
By Namrata Poddar Lisette don’t like to work. Mostly, she paint mandalas on tiles and have exhibition four times a year to sell her...
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Arts & Culture: “For the Semanticists”
By Jeanann Verlee se·man·ti·cist noun a specialist in the study of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. white priv·i·lege noun 1. making a semantic suggestion...
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Arts & Culture: “Back Door Shoes”
By Mary Cuffe Perez They will be the last of her things to be taken away. The toes still wear a grin of mud and...
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Two Poems
By Angelique V. Nixon moon rituals in times of crisis rush of magic enters the body with colorful joy bursts of soothing...
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Short Story: “Spin”
By Laura Witz There was a time when I took pleasure in the great money machine. In its fantasy of freedom. In its tales...
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Poem: “This Astrological Weather”
By Katie Jean Shinkle Can we remember how it felt in the winter of lights and hands together in prayer and finding our...
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Two Poems by Megan Arlett
Period. Stop. In England, where I paused my mother’s period for nine months, period means period. Period. And ‘full stop’ means a period. A single...
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Poem: “A Girl’s Guide” by Amy Gleeson
By Amy Gleeson sit and be still sit and be still and cross your legs sit and be still and cross your legs and...
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Two Poems by Emelia Reuterfors
Brided 1) I wonder where my bride is . pigeonwinging and wired to the banister a split-end....
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Prose Poem: “To All the Boys Who Didn’t”
By Kristin Sanders Thank you to the man in Las Vegas who ripped my tampon out and went down on me anyway...
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Photography Feature: On Beauty and Age
By Sheri Wright What is aged or overlooked can often be a source of beauty, if approached from a different perspective, one from a desire...
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Two Poems: Monica Wendel
By Monica Wendel Gilgo Beach We were so sick from dope my mom had to fly from New York to take care of...
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Prose Poem: Containment Narrative
By Clare Louise Harmon I dressed blackunderwearredbra I worried that the strap would be seen & then I remembered I didn’t careatall fucktheorchestra...
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Poem: “existing while being female”
By Jenuine Poetess I don’t want to wear special nail polish don’t want to pay for self-defense classes don’t want to maintain this...
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REVIEW: All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color
At the Boundaries of Belief Review of All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, ed. Jina Ortiz and Rochelle Spencer Review...
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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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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...
