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Michael Copperman

Michael Copperman’s work has appeared in The Sun, The Oxford-American, Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, and Triquarterly Online, and garnered fellowships and awards from the Munster Literature Center, the Oregon Arts Commission, Literary Arts, and Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. His memoir about teaching in the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta, Faces Bright, Voices Loud, is forthcoming from University Press of Mississippi.
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    Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales by Tom Williams

    Michael Copperman reviews Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales by Tom Williams.

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    La Boheme Portlandia

    As for gentrification, like in every desirable part of the country, economics decide the contest, and wealth wins every time.

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    Give Something, Get Something

    I know I don’t truly understand what blood money really means, or what it is to offer up the vein, to be willing to give anything just to get by, but I have learned this: just because a story has…

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    So If You See the Vulture Coming

    “So if you see the vulture coming flying circles in your mind remember there is no escaping

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    Listening to Leo London

    If you took the love child of Dylan and Patti Smith, conceived under a full moon with Waits howling somewhere out of sight, and raised him to twenty-four in a dark cathedral with only a guitar and drum set and…