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I feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
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...moreTo ghost, to refuse, to satisfy yourself with yourself, felt impossibly newfangled, like something I’d like to try.
...moreNneka M. Okona discusses her new book, SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF.
...moreKevin Simmonds discusses his new collection, THE MONSTER I AM TODAY.
...moreJ. Nicole Jones discusses her debut memoir, LOW COUNTRY.
...moreJulia Koets discusses her forthcoming poetry collection, PINE.
...moreGenevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
...moreWhen Ashleigh Bryant Phillips lets loose, she can shock.
...moreIt was a Friday morning at 9:34 a.m. when the Rapture occurred.
...moreBrandon Taylor discusses his debut novel, REAL LIFE.
...moreTatyana Fazlalizadeh discusses her new book, STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE.
...moreMalcolm Tariq discusses his debut poetry collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
...moreBarr is an astonishing image-maker, adept in creating significance through anthimeria.
...moreEmily W. Pease discusses her debut story collection, LET ME OUT HERE.
...moreWhat we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
...more“Everyone, to varying degrees, is in everyone’s business and life.”
...moreMargaret Renkl discusses her forthcoming debut memoir-in-essays, LATE MIGRATIONS.
...moreKiese Laymon discusses his new memoir, HEAVY.
...more“I think if you are really doing the work, you can’t write about America and not explore race and slavery, and that goes for any writer.”
...moreShe never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
...moreI tried to forget again that I once meant to leave, that on a few occasions I had actually felt transported by love.
...moreJacqueline Woodson discusses her latest novel Another Brooklyn, the little deaths of lost friendships, and her work with children across the country as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate.
...moreI’m a small blue dot living in a blood-red corner of a red state, so I’ve grown accustomed to hearing right wing talking points. I don’t like them, but they surface as regularly in my southwest Florida town as white egrets on the highway and dolphins in the Gulf. Talking points at the grocery store, […]
...moreEighty years ago, Wash Jones appeared as a minor character in William Faulkner’s masterpiece on American identity and self-invention, Absalom, Absalom! From a craft perspective Jones was put in for a purpose: to demonstrate the role that white working-class men played in maintaining white supremacy among the wealthiest people in America before the Civil War, […]
...moreI try not to think about fashion. It’s more that I want to settle on something to wear so I don’t have to think about it.
...moreDonald Ray Pollock has been steadily serving up plates of mild horror since his first book of short stories, Knockemstiff, appeared in 2008. Pollock followed the explosion of Knockemstiff with The Devil All the Time, in 2011, his first novel, which also bordered on the genre of mystery, again with generous servings of darkness. His […]
...moreBrian Booker discusses his debut collection Are You Here For What I’m Here For?, giving characters strange and unusual names, and sleeping sickness.
...moreI would really like to see a coming back or recreation of funeral rites. Let’s create new ones. Let’s take this matter into our own hands.
...moreNone of the imagery of Lemonade is foreign to those of us who grew up in the South or who have Southern roots.
...moreMy responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
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