At first the men thought it was a store of foggy white cum.I can forgive this mistake-desire can interrupt logic.—from “Spermaceti”, Vol. 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.In fifth grade I wrote what I now call a feminist version of Pete’s Dragon in . . .
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For the last two years I’ve had the privilege of watching Serious Play Theater Ensemble develop its new production, Moving Water. As one of the photographers helping with this project, I have been enchanted by its action and imagery. The subject, however, is far from enchanting: it’s chilling. Fresh water is disappearing . . .
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Slowest-footed day of the week,wrong noted & creaking onthe credenza while the other influencers gossip in the kitchen’slinoleum.—from “Tuesday Feeling”, Vol. 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.The first time I wrote a poem was in March 1994. I remember it so vividly because . . .
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you are falling for someone in hell. which may mean that you aretrying to love in america in there is no guarantee. there is never a guarantee& yet here is your foot, willfully arched over the edge.—from “you are falling for someone in hell.” Volume 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell us . . .
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God sees meas a birdsees an airplane moving at a greatdistance.—from “God Sees Me”, Volume 62, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.When I was in tenth grade I had an English teacher who asked the class on a regular basis to write short stories . . .
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Warfield Place, Northampton 12 July, 2021 Editor’s note: Below are opening remarks delivered by Kanshin Ruth Ozeki, novelist, Zen priest, Smith College professor, and resident of Warfield Place, followed by an abbreviated description of the ordination ceremony, and concluding with remarks delivered to the trees by Kosen Greg Snyder, senior Zen priest, co-founder of . . .
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A Review of Haruki Murakami’s First Person Singular. Transl. Philip Gabriel (Knopf, 2021) The most significant story I have ever read was a Murakami story. I cannot say which one, only that it appears in the collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Consider this withholding a sacrament in the name of preservation: once you admit what . . .
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The biggest snakeis an albino so huge his scales, when they lift from his bodyas he curves around a rock or rodent, look like big, dry, flakes of oatmeal.—from “The Rattlesnakes They Keep in the Life Sciences Building Remind Me of My Dog” Tell us about one of the first pieces you . . .
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A Review of Dariel Suarez’s The Playwright’s House In his debut novel, Dariel Suarez takes the reader into the heart of Cuba, of Havana, of the people of the island. As a Cuban American, I notice how the people of the island are often erased from the stories set in Cuba, the stories . . .
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I realize my daughter just turned seven and doesn’t knowI was seven when my mother crept into my carpeted roomwhile I played a video game to say my father, who had beenfar away taking fluids from tubes in a California hospital,has died.—from “Scrubbing the Skillet”, Volume 62, Issue 2 (Spring 2021) Tell . . .
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