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Monthly Archives: June 2014
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JENNY SADRE-ORAFAI
KARAJ By Jenny Sadre-Orafai When I miss her, I open my popout map. I spill my face into the streets of Tehran. I hide in Laleh Park. I read street names aloud, like I’m reporting to someone. I pretend I … Continue reading
Lyn Lifshin: A Micro-Interview and Three Poems
Lyn Lifshin: A Micro-Interview and Three Poems by Okla Elliott and Lyn Lifshin Okla Elliott: You organized A Girl Goes into the Woods by themed sections (autobiography, relationships, family, war poems, and so forth). How did you decide on these … Continue reading
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Tagged American Literature, independent presses, Lyn Lifshin, NYQ Books, Poetry
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A Review of Lena Divani’s Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat
A Review of Lena Divani’s Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat Translated from the Greek by Konstantinos Matsoukas By Jennifer Dane Clements Forget, for a moment, the ubiquitous internet cats. Put aside the grumpy one, the … Continue reading
Posted in At the Margins, Review
Tagged animal narrators, anthrozoology, At the Margins, cats, Europa Editions, Fiction, Greek translation, internet cats, internet memes, Jennifer Dane Clements, Konstantinos Matsoukas, Lena Divani, Review, Seven Lives and One Great Love: Memoirs of a Cat, Translation
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: SPLIT
from SPLIT By Cathy Linh Che: THE FUTURE THERAPIST ASKS ABOUT RAPE This morning, I watched a woman shatter the thin ice on the pavement. I made the bed, tucked in the sheets, and in the window, I saw reflected … Continue reading
Finding Courage: My #YesAllWomen
Finding Courage: My #YesAllWomen by Amy Gigi Alexander In the past few weeks many things happened which influenced my state of mind. Maya Angelou died, and popular media exploded with stories and quotes from her life. The New York Times ran an … Continue reading
Master of Disaster/Breaking in the Fold
Master of Disaster/Breaking in the Fold by Sabra Embury Passing a glass-walled room, Oscar waved to an orangutan trying on designer jeans. “Use the sandblaster, Tina,” he said into a mike. He pushed a button releasing a snow cone from … Continue reading
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A Review of Brenda Hasiuk’s Your Constant Star
A Review of Brenda Hasiuk’s Your Constant Star by Will J Fawley Brenda Hasiuk’s YA novel, Your Constant Star, opens the first of its three sections by introducing readers to Faye. Adopted from China by a Polish mother and a … Continue reading
Signage
Signage by Hannah Stephenson Stores die with the same velocity as bugs. One day, humming, clicking. Shiny doors parting like beetle wings. And then, gone. Emptied out. A shell. The sudden voicelessness of the SupeRx, its sign darkened and waiting … Continue reading
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Tagged Columbus, Gold Wake Press, huffington Post, New American Press, New Poetry from the Midwest, Ohio, Poetry
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Notes toward a Writerly Education—Or: Can We Please, Please, Please Have a Different Debate
Notes toward a Writerly Education—Or: Can We Please, Please, Please Have a Different Debate by Okla Elliott 1. I can think of few current cultural debates more frustrating and fruitless than the one over MFAs in creative writing. There … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: UNDRESSING
from UNDRESSING By Nicole Steinberg BEAUTY is a ritual, passed along in slow drags of the fingers—foundation swept across cheekbones in runny smears, stark beige until it blends. Salt, pepper, and ashtrays; we keep the kitchen warm with smoke and … Continue reading
The As It Ought to Be Archive 