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Accommodations are not accessibility: An interview with Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Being disabled in higher education takes a psychic toll, whether you are faculty or a student. Yet most institutions do the bare minimum to remain “compliant” with the law rather than doing the work to make their spaces accessible and inclusive.

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The Dislexic Poit

I always received glowing remarks on my alliteration or understanding of poetic devices, but they were hidden beneath what felt like hundreds of tiny red strikes across misspellings—although my phonetic versions of the words were sometimes genius, and always understandable.

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The Pastoral Novel in Chaos: Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency

. . . to witness the world is always to participate in it, to make choices about what to see and what to ignore, and also to be worked upon by forces of differing scales.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: To Go

Love can feel muddled, vast, diffuse; so little to do with the singular volatility of a firework. I hunger for that kind of crystalline precision, though. That clarity. To scream myself across the sky just once—consuming everything in my wake—and then vanish from view.

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Finding Enchantment in the Ordinary: A Conversation with Meng Jin

The reason why so many of these stories have metafictional elements is that I was trying to write in an ethical way while feeling like a professional liar.

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Sketch Book Reviews: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

EMBRACE FEARLESSLY THE BURNING EARTH . . . is a quintessential Barry Lopez book. It is a clarion call to lovers of the earth, but one full of hope and optimism. This is exactly the kind of book we should all be reading right now.

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Treatment as Noun

I haven’t slept in years, but I still can’t seem to wake up.

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Head Hair

You look like a [gendered noun here]"

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Love in and Loving Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons

If I didn’t already write poems, Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons would make me want to write them.

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Sustaining our Creative Practice: An Interview with May-lee Chai

Writing is what sustains me and gets me through. It’s the one place where we have control, and even if terrible things happen, it's not someone else making the terrible things happen.

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The Microphone

The ableism of schools as workplaces means that all teachers are assumed to be able-bodied until a disabled teacher identifies their need for accommodations. Schools respond; they do not, to my knowledge, anticipate disabled teachers.

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The Imprint of a Mind: Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra

This sparse book, “an essay on pregnancy and earthquakes,” deals with the author’s dueling fears of recent and future earthquakes and her impending childbirth.

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