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Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Steve Almond
All the Secrets of the World, by Steve Almond. Zando Projects, 416 ppl, $28. For twenty years, Steve Almond has enjoyed a widely-lauded career as a writer of short … Read the rest
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Diego Lama
RebeccaTranslated by Rose Facchini I’m deeply in love. I’m very shy. I love Rebecca. I don’t dare tell her. I’ve written it on a piece of paper, but I dare … Read the rest
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Kerry Muir
Rain WalkTonight, walking in the pouring rain on the Avenue, I went searching for the answer to a question for which I had no words. Though now that I think on … Read the rest
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An Interview with Albert Abonado
“I think of the white space in this poem like that, a place for the speaker to move the poem around, a place to disguise intent, to conceal an America that hides in the silences.”
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Esteban Rodríguez
No Longer the BystanderWhy the Assembly Disbanded, by Roberto Tejada. Fordham University Press, 88 pp., $16.95.instrumentation for distributed empathy monetization, by William Lessard. Kernpunkt Press, 40 pp., $14.95. Winter Phoenix,… Read the rest
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Four Takes: Devon Walker-Figueroa’s PHILOMATH
“In the hands of Walker-Figueroa … enjambment is not just a craft technique—hers is an existential enjambment.”
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Kevin McIlvoy
TartarusEditor’s Note Kevin McIlvoy—who went by “Mc” (pronounced Mac)—was one of the most extraordinary writers, teachers, and human beings I’ve ever known, and I was crushed to hear about his … Read the rest
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