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suicide attempt

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On Suicidal Ideation

  • Sarah F.
  • January 15, 2019
It’s not that easy. It’s never that easy.
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Colony Collapse Disorder

  • Laura P. McCarty
  • October 23, 2018
Colonies. Communities. Our children are collapsing.
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Every Moment Is a Poem: A Conversation with with Ailey O’Toole

  • Tianna G. Hansen
  • September 17, 2018
Ailey O’Toole discusses her forthcoming chapbook, GRIEF, AND WHAT COMES AFTER.
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When We Were Friends

  • Lizzie Lawson
  • August 20, 2018
Our eyes are bleary, but we are laughing, the kind of laugh that comes before tears.
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  • Television

You Can Never Escape the Jersey Shore

  • Tasha Coryell
  • July 3, 2018
To watch Jersey Shore is to watch my fantasy, only it’s an imperfect recreation.
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The Miracle Bowl

  • Jennifer Givhan
  • December 4, 2017
Praise the family that tethers me. Praise the well-used kitchen utensils and scoured mixing bowls and butter knives, thick slabs of jelly on the bread.
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The Peep King’s Legacy: A Family Portrait

  • Rachel Inberg
  • October 31, 2017
The day after Hugh Hefner died, I received a text from my sister that our grandfather was starring alongside James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal in HBO's new series, The Deuce.
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Working through Trauma

  • Allyson McCabe
  • September 11, 2017
Danilova says the act of making the album helped her to work through this shared existential trauma.
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  • Voices on Addiction

Voices on Addiction: The Honeybee

  • Michele Leavitt
  • August 7, 2017
She never stopped, a bee buzzing from flower to flower to flower, collecting all the sweetness she could.
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#SuicideGirls: Why I Teach Sylvia Plath

  • Amber Nicole Brooks
  • July 6, 2017
But let’s not forget: feminism is, at least in part, about choice, and portions of life are play, not politics. Play and relationships and creativity and whatever we want.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Fluids

  • Linda Chavers
  • January 28, 2017
To me, my mother’s body has always been the safest place—a place for me to return and to transform.
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