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Three Poems
*** *** it is finally spring & i am tending your garden& you are gone. it is unfair of deathto ask so many necessary questions,then to pry the answers from uslike warped wood bending away from itself.you are gone &…
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On First Loves, Writing Latinx Characters, and Grieving in Paradise: A Conversation with Mario Elías
“I wanted to create an honest depiction of the world as I knew it growing up. I needed to be honest in how the food smelled, in how the music playing vibrated everything around it, in how the specific rhythm…
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A Little Machine Against Big Brother: A Conversation with Glenn Dixon
“At any rate, we have to find a way to infuse empathy into these AI models. And that’s where we come to my novel. I don’t know if I was thinking of this in writing the novel—I was slogging through…
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Sunday Scaries: Lu’s Laundry and Other Services
Some prospectors’ ghosts leave their previous clothes real easy. My laundry shop was just a railway station on their way to the afterlife.
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Two Poems
BEFORE THE AFTERLIFE Early in our love,we sit in the Swan Room,ceilings high as a tomb,blood-heavy curtains,clusters of moon lamps.Fake swans lurkeverywhere. Overdirty martinis, cloudy vialsof brine, we revealour death plans:ashes for both.Water, I say,my body scatteredinto sea or fjord.It…
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Kafka in Kashmir: Zahid Rafiq’s “The World With Its Mouth Open”
Picture this: You awake to get ready for a cricket tournament. You have been excited for this particular cricket tournament, it’s a special event, a star-studded one. You are going to be on the field and play against sports stars…
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American Basswood (Tilia Americana)
During the downtime between the rush hours, ba collected books—English ones. Some of the books he would find discarded and often outdated by some years, in trash bins outside of the language learning centers down the street. Our street, which…
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Memoir in Essays: A Conversation with Maya Jewell Zeller
“The books got weirder and more experimental as I explored the dissonance and impossibilities inherent in being both a domestic and financial provider in a body that never receives rest nor care.”
