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Backslider
My mother always warned me about the danger of backsliding. Some Christians believe in eternal security, believe “once saved, always saved.” Not us. Salvation was slippery, could fly out of your hands like a bar of soap. I prayed constantly…
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Three Poems
Each push spells the walls transparent, portal of home now quartz & shoring in moonlight then sunlight & such a tenacity of stars Sky flies overhead as time refuses its own elapse
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castration: a love song
I think of a world in which I knew, as an adolescent, that I could have stopped the train that ran roughshod over my boy soprano range, and I swallow the kind of wailing that I would have once seen…
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Where Thread Becomes Language: A Conversation with Laurie Ann Guerrero
Everyone sees and benefits from the work. But most people don’t acknowledge the women doing the work. There’s a difference. And not just women, men too. So how we define it, what we name it, whether or not we celebrate…
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Who Will Save the Artists?
Convulsing, she asks, “Who’s gonna save me?” The plea repeats in different pitches until she is left lying prone, still uttering pieces of it. “Who’s gonna? Save? Who’s? Me?
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Reminder: The October Rumpus Book Club: “American Hagwon” with Min Jin Lee
The October installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club* will be on October 26th at 7pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with New York Times best-selling author Min Jin Lee about her brand new book American Hagwon.
