Monthly Archives: May 2016

To Turn with Joy and Hope: A Conversation Between Okla Elliott and Sonya Huber

Posted on May 31, 2016 by aiotb

  SH: So, Okla, you recently wrote Bernie Sanders: The Essential Guide, and are now working on a similar short book for Squint Books on Pope Francis. In the Bernie book, you manage to work in cool departures into sci-fi … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: TWO SUMMER POEMS

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

LILY-BELL AND THISTLEDOWN SONG By Louisa May Alcott Awake! Awake! for the earliest gleam 
 Of golden sunlight shines 
 On the rippling waves, that brightly flow 
 Beneath the flowering vines. 
 Awake! Awake! for the low, sweet chant … Continue reading →

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High School Poetry Series: Gender, Identity, & Race – Anaika Falcon & Meisha White

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Sarah Marcus

A note from Series Editor Sarah Marcus: Born from a powerful in-class discussion we had about gender, race, and the role of masculinity in rape culture, these poems are an analysis of gendered personal experience and a study of our intersectionality. This poetry … Continue reading →

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Fred Muratori: Three Poems

Posted on May 16, 2016 by aiotb

ALTERNATE READING Not words on the page but pointing into, perpendicular homing in honed edges of their first letters glimpsed as fishtails schooling off a Döppler-like gradation into unintended else submersion just below the page I call and say come … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: KELLY HANSEN MAHER

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

CO-SLEEPING By Kelly Hansen Maher Accepting the rise and fall of boxcars heaving across the city, our industrial neighborhood. Old neighborhood, in which immigrants, studying for citizenship exams, named the streets in the order of the presidents. Trains make their … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: MOTHERHOOD POETRY

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Sivan Butler-Rotholz

Editor’s Note: In honor of Mother’s Day, I have gathered together some of my favorite poems that I’ve featured on this series over the years that consider motherhood from a plethora of perspectives, for motherhood is such a multi-faceted experience. … Continue reading →

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The New Era of Engaged Literature

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Okla Elliott

The New Era of Engaged Literature by  Okla Elliott When I was fourteen years old, I naively and ignorantly and perhaps over-seriously declared myself a Marxist. It was around this time that I also began considering myself a writer, though … Continue reading →

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