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Review: Funeral Diva by Pamela Sneed
Sneed offers us a glimpse into the 1980s to the world we live in now, traveling through time to a place where Black and Brown LGBTQ+ youth were growing up dealing with the AIDS crisis, police brutality, and struggling to…
A Little Miracle
You can make a mistake for an entire life.
Teaching Reading in Middle School
The textbook says black is a symbol of evil / and white a symbol of purity, and I omit that in my lesson / because onyx is black, and so is the mother’s breast
Review: How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences by Sue William Silverman
Poring over an old atlas, Silverman can trace the places and episodes of her difficult past to map the urgency and central drive of the book: what explains the narrator’s life-long fear and obsession with death, and what does it…
“My Heart Will Always Be With You”
In the old Korea image, the heart appeared raised, not engraved. Plump, like a real heart.
The Jesus in Our Church is a White Man
but my husband looks more like our savior: / more like Jesus than the man / they have stained into glass
Review: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed
In this collection, Reed accepts and moves deftly through anger, cultural truths, contemporary references, and never turns away.
A Conversation with Director and Filmmaker Tayo Amos
I am always attracted to situations in which characters have to go above and beyond themselves to do something that they normally wouldn’t do to fill a role they’ve been thrust into.
Not Your Typical Gap Year: An Interview With Pam Mandel
Rachel Rueckert, nonfiction MFA candidate, spoke to travel writer Pam Mandel about her career path and recently released book, The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, and Bad Travel, a coming-of-age story about an unconventional, emotionally…
Semi-Permeable Membrane
You shouldn’t be here, that’s what you tell the other inmates.
Ruminations on David Foster Wallace’s letters to Richard Elman
Every love story is a ghost story in the sense that the beloved often lingers, haunts, and possesses the mind of the lover.
invitation to edit: spiritual exercises
set fire to the innermost squad car