Author: Heavy Feather
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Two Poems from This Is the Way to Rule: Joshua Young
Dear Survivors, we come upon a party of women cutting through the gut of a forest. when they see us approaching, they scatter. we keep shouting, we mean no harm, but just as quickly as we came upon them, they’ve vanished. we can hear breaths and twigs snapping, but cannot see them. our shouts keep…
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The Spectators, a new graphic novel by Victor Hussenot, reviewed by Nick Francis Potter
*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. 1. Victor Hussenot’s newest graphic novel, The Spectators, is his first published in English, and, well, it isn’t really a graphic novel at all. Or, it is and it isn’t. It is. (A note to my wife: this isn’t another opinion piece on misnomers and the politics…
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“Moving Beyond Humanness”: An Interview with Carol Guess & Kelly Magee by Dana Diehl
A girl sheds jellyfish from her skin. A man grows a Joey in his artificial womb. One woman buzzes with locusts, while another carries a sparrow in her chest. A bank teller adopts a baby hippo he finds in a baby hatch. A man’s girlfriend gives birth to a live school of fish. In their…
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Fiction: Lori D’Angelo’s “Neighbors”
Thomas hired a neighbor woman to spy on his wife. He told himself that it was for his wife’s own good. His marriage had fizzled, and he wanted to know why. His wife’s name was Donna. The neighbor’s name was Donnetta. At times, he felt like he wasn’t even spying. The neighbor was like an…
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Book Review: Caleb Nelson on Nate Marshall’s Poetry Collection Wild Hundreds
Nate Marshall’s Wild Hundreds is a story about amnesia and national shame. In these poems, Marshall presents us with a host of difficult subject matter. He shows us high school dropouts and troubled towns with troubled teens. He shows us the deeply embedded systems of control and oppression in our places of leisure and work.…
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Book Review: John Brown Spiers on Vertigo, short stories by Joanna Walsh
Vertigo is the kind of book it’s easy to let yourself be fooled by. It is smaller than the average prose collection. It is shorter. It has a very low number of lines per page, something you might realize if you flip through it or glance at a screenshot. These facts will make an impression…
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Two Poems by J. Bradley
Enrolling in the Human League I’m writing you the perfect love song:the beat a gasp from Lloyd Dobblerwhile his stomach collapsesaround my right fist, the lyricscut from your favorite magazines,glued onto construction paperthat matches your eyes. I’ll shave and dress so well,my floor will wear your clothesperfectly. You’ll rememberthe tune, ignore our words. I’m a…
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The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, a novel by Leland Cheuk, reviewed by Ben Duax
The Asian American experience is a history of erasure. Generations of Asians in America have been forced to deal with attempts to define them as uniquely other, from the Angell treaty of 1880, which limited ships arriving in America to no more than fifteen Chinese, to the internment of Japanese Americans during the second world war.…
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“The Whole World Around You Is Sort of Decomposing”: An Interview with Stefan Kiesbye by Robyn Ringler
Stefan Kiesbye and I first met at the University of Tampa, where I was a student in the low-residency MFA program. Stefan was a faculty member. While he was not my direct mentor, he taught many classes and workshops, and generously shared his views on fiction with me and other students. I felt I knew…
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