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“Christopher Ke’alohapauole Akana: A Life,” fiction by Jonathan Callahan
When I first set out to write the Life, I was twenty-six years old, my subject at the time therefore just approaching the twenty-seventh anniversary of his expulsion from the womb. Yet nearly four fruitless years had passed by the time I intend to revisit in these notes; I was now twenty-nine, and had arrived…
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My Shadow Book by Maawaam, edited by Jordan A. Rothacker, reviewed by Jarrod Campbell
The purpose of a book can be something different from one person to the next. A fellow writer once told me that for him, a book can be a temporary escape from the drudgery of the real world. That was more important to him than delivering a message; provide diversion for one person and you…
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“Three Photos: Urbanity” by Peter Witte
*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Makeshift Memorial Rain Riding Two Men and a Mattress Peter Witte is a writer and visual artist. His work has been featured in a variety of literary magazines and journals including The Sun, The Threepenny Review, Tin House Online, Hobart Online, and The Rumpus. He teaches writing at the University of Maryland.…
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Six Essays from Self-Erasing Portrait by Joe Hall
Smoker’s Lounge Take the inscrutable diners and staff behind the plate glass of Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks.” Take the plate glass and bury it deep in the street-like incandescent night of a factory. Replace the counters with folding tables. Make everyone older. Give each one a newspaper and a cigarette to pull on then smudge the…
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“Wormwood,” a critical essay about the six-part Netflix miniseries by Toti O’Brien
Latin, Artemisia Absinth. Ancient British, Warmode. Wormwood is a bitter herb with medicinal properties, related to purification and cleansing. Hamlet mumbles its name in Act III, Scene II, during the play he has staged in order to upset King Claudius. The performance faithfully represents the crime of which he believes the latter is guilty. He…
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Three Poems by Ace Boggess
Schoolteacher Elegy scanning the obituaries this morning I seemy junior high English teacher the one who ignored me while I slept or pretended to sleepwith head posed on arm pressed to the desk then introduced me to Hugo the French Shakespearewith Quasimodo’s bones cradling a rose in Esmeralda’s grave I was a child in hiding…
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“Republican Jesus and Real Jesus Meet at the Endeavor Diner,” fiction by Ron Burch
Republican Jesus says, “So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. Unless you’re poor or an immigrant or you look dirty.” Then he says, “For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole…
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“Monster,” a GIF comic poem by Matthew Kramer
*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Matthew Kramer is a, writer, illustrator, and artist in Providence, Rhode Island. He is an MFA candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University, where he teaches comics. His artwork can be viewed at matthewckramer.com and canttakemeanywhere.com. “The comic poems are a series of soliloquies and dialogues in which everyday aphorisms, thoughts, and…
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Three Poems by Jeff Tigchelaar
There’s This Thing and I don’t know what it isbut I haul it all aroundbecause it’s attached to my hand. There’s this cloth that’s wrapped tightaround my arm: bright orange cloth all the waypast my elbow and affixedto some mesh wiring.A lot of mesh wiring.I have to drag it behind me. It’s like I’ve gota…
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