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  • Unrest by Emily Fragos [by Nin Andrews]

    April 18, 2025

    Every now and then, I come across a quiet little poem that sticks in my head, like "Unrest" by Emily Fragos. Maybe because I worked at the local SPCA when I was a girl,…

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  • “As Above So Below”: Mark Leckey Does a Good Job [By Tracy Danison]

    April 18, 2025

    “As Above So Below”, installation by Mark Leckey, Lafayette Anticipations. Photo © Aurélien Mole, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris These days, as, each morning, a body must crouch up and frog run from the Huey Combat…

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  • Two Tragedies in Life [by Walter Carey]

    April 18, 2025

    What do it mean? Trans studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, queer, and postcolonial theory, this class contends with how bodies of flesh and bodies of knowledge change over time. Bodies of Transformation takes a historiographic approach…

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  • Marsh Hawk Press: Poetry Contest (judged by Elaine Equi]

    April 16, 2025

      2025 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prizes The Contest Will Close Soon. DEADLINE: 11:59 pm Wednesday, April 30th Contest Judge: ELAINE EQUI  Submit Manuscript Here 2025 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prizes The Contest Will…

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  • On Jackie Robinson Day

    April 15, 2025

    “It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all…

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  • Sestina for Susan Sontag [poem by Tim Disch (1940-2008)]

    April 15, 2025

    Sestina for Susan Sontag    –by Tom Disch Susan, you must allow me to condescendThis once. I suppose you mean well, butIs Godot what they really need off therein Sarajevo? Wouldn't it be more worthwhile,And…

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