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Gabriel Received the Flan and Warm Smiles [by Stacey Harwood]
Dear Howard: one shd. Never attempt FLAN in an unfamiliar and very bad oven – so forgive me if these are full of the unforgivable holes .. .I do hope you’re feeling better –…
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Voltron [by Tomás Q. Morín]
It was August and I was on my way to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for the first time. For some reason I don’t remember (bad weather, a loose screw), my plane from La…
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The Year in Review: Easter, and the Christians are at it again, raising the dead. By Jill Alexander Essbaum (April 6, 2012)
If you see me in church this weekend, I’ll be crying. Wait. Scratch that. I’ll be weeping. Hmm. No. That’s not right either. Try: Sobbing. Bawling. Engaging in a back-pew sort of break-down…
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Showtime at the Matrix [by Tomás Q. Morín]
The day before I was to have my teeth cleaned, I was telling my wife over the phone how the dentist’s office had said I would be free at 10:00 from their chamber of…
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Workshop Days [by Tomás Q. Morin]
Sometimes I get nostalgic and think about my classmates from my MFA years and how I adored so many of the poems I had the privilege of reading in those workshops and how much…
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Your Book Here [by Jake Adam York]
(This post first appeared on July 18, 2011. — sdh ) Last week, my wife and I snuck away into the mountains. I packed only one book. The plan was to read the land—penstemon,…
