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Weight loss

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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: All in My Head

  • Marissa Korbel
  • September 18, 2018
I am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head.
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  • Poetry
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Form as Container: Samantha Zighelboim’s The Fat Sonnets

  • Molly Fisk
  • September 14, 2018
Zighelboim almost has to break the form into pieces in order to speak; a fourteen-word poem is really only the echo of a sonnet.
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  • Brandon Hicks
  • Comics

How To, in Short

  • Brandon Hicks
  • May 20, 2018
"A collection of brief books by Brandon Hicks."
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How to Keep Score

  • Rachel Klein
  • February 1, 2018
I’m still working on this balance, and given that I only have about eighty or ninety years tops to get it right, I doubt I ever will.
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Beautiful Liar

  • Denise Shekerjian
  • June 27, 2017
I tell myself that all I need is practice and maybe much better shorts. I wonder: when did I become such a beautiful liar? Walk, walk, walk, and fly.
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The Insanity of Eating

  • Michael Sinert
  • August 22, 2016
I didn’t usually consider how the binge felt. I just ate until I couldn’t eat anymore.
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  • (K)ink: Writing While Deviant
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  • Sex

(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Jera Brown

  • Jera Brown
  • June 14, 2016
I wanted to uncover the nest of wires comprising my gender identity and describe its complicated mass.
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Missing

  • Antonia Crane
  • June 1, 2016
I long to learn from my darkest teachers, feel the stab of their spectacular rejection. Perhaps I feel most alive when I’m hurting.
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  • (K)ink: Writing While Deviant
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  • Sex

(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Bruce Owens Grimm

  • Bruce Owens Grimm
  • March 29, 2016
The more secrets I wrote about, the fewer I wanted to keep. And the more secrets I made public through my writing, the more I gained.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Fat Girl’s Benediction

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • February 21, 2015
Why couldn’t I accept my body for what it wanted to be? It’s what I harped on the rest of the world to do.
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