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Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Roberto C. Garcia
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Zaina Alsous
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Hannah Rego
What has been left unsaid about the relationship between mental health and writing? Writing keeps me alive, yes, and writing makes it harder to live,...

Like: Intimacy in Late Stage Capitalism
Once, you found a skin tag on the part of your flesh that is not exactly a sex organ, but would be illegal for someone...

Body of a Poem: If language makes us visible
“I swear, you will wake— & mistake these walls for skin.” —from: Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong, by Ocean Vuong I don’t like to think...

On Conclusion and Findings: A Conversation Between Yanyi and Catalina Ouyang
Catalina Ouyang‘s ongoing project Conclusion and Findings (working title) is a participatory event that takes various material forms. The artist invites writers to create poetic...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Cameron Awkward-Rich
What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...

On Writing As Liberation
I. What is the word ‘expression?’ An utterance, a declaration, a representation. Of feeling, of thought, of character. Becoming a radical against silence, expression is...

Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table
Let’s begin with the obvious, the unspoken: making books costs money. More to the point, making books costs someone’s money. And, even more to the...
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