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Document(s)
I chose “Document(s)” as a topic during a time of uncertainty— during an era of dis/misinformation, as the 2020 election approached, with ongoing civil unrest and police brutality, in the middle of an ever-evolving pandemic.
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Protactile Poetry
One of the outcomes I expect from the enterprise of translating American Sign Language poetry into English is that it would disappoint many readers.
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin Introduces Kristina Kay Robinson, Emilie Staat Strong, and Ran Walker
I met Emilie Staat Strong in a coffee shop around 2008. I was writing a short story, and she noticed the stack of craft books on my table. “You’re a writer,” she said. I said I was, and she said she was too.
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An Interview with Amy Gustine
“Short stories are rarely about the moment of crisis. I think that’s because what happened is just a fact.”
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Guest Editor: Sabrina Orah Mark
“Baugh and Scheckler are distinctly different poets but one thing they have at their center is the desire to heal by reaching all the way into the most wounded wound.”
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At the Gate: Poems of Friendship
“Poems, I think, are encounters: between image, volta, syntax, and other implements of craft, and between reader, speaker, and poet.”
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Intro by Hasanthinka Sirisena
It’s strange to think back and reflect on how I’ve come to know Tomás Q. Morín, Wendy S. Walters, and Dionne Irving. It feels as if I’ve never not known them.
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C.J.A.
Things of ValueA review of four new books by C.J.A. “In my recent reading practice, I have been paying almost obsessive attention to the word thing …”
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Introduction by Aracelis Girmay
Audre Lorde. Sandra María Esteves. Lucille Clifton. Mariposa. Harryette Mullen. Suheir Hammad. These are some of the poets I see Urantia Ramirez and Shaina Jones walking beside and after. And of course the countless poets in their lines whose names I do and do not know: to them I throw my flowers and give thanks.
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An Interview with Hugh Sheehy
Hugh Sheehy is the author of The Invisibles (University of Georgia Press), winner of the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Award. His fiction has appeared widely, most recently in Story, West Branch, and Five Points. He lives in Beacon, New York and teaches at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing…
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