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Dumpster Chicken

Oriana Reilly -
1.    I remember eating dumpster chicken when I was 19. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was playing house...

Field Notes

The Long Run

Amber Wong -
“Clean air, clean water, open spaces – these should once again be the birthright of every American.” ~ President Richard M. Nixon (R), 1970...

Generations

Dinner Party

Daphne Biener -
“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

In Sickness and In Health

Reaper

JWGoll -
May 2017 “I don’t call it sickle. I call it scythe cell because it mows my entire body, all forty acres. It’s fucking holistic is...

Reviews

Beyoncé Sings Motherhood

Anri Wheeler -
MUSIC REVIEW The day of the BeyHive presale for Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour (open to members of her official fanclub), I was sitting at my...

The Sounding Board

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

Linda Strange -
On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Essay & Memoir

Getting to Satisfied: What an Exposure Therapist Learned from a Children’s Book

Brandy E. Wyant -
I bet I’m the only therapist here. The realization struck as the line grew behind me on an Upper East Side sidewalk. Glancing around, I...

An Unwanted Inheritance: A Fractured Love

Mansi Bhatia -

Being a Host

Arina Boyko -

Oxygen

Jeanne-Marie Fleming -

Background Music

Caroline Wampole -

Fiction

Years Before the Divorce, When My Children Were Young

Hazel Brown -
The gate was tall and held closed by ivy. Does ivy stall all year round, or does it come in waves, green working its...

Thought, but Didn’t Say

Lynn Sloan -

Reason to Believe

Ray Morrison -

Letter to the Corinthians

David Desjardins -

Food & Stuff

Mark Williams -

Poetry

panopticon

Kathleen Hellen -
No Kings Day, 2025 Can you say it? what you see in the margins. outside the crowd. outside the route you marched from vantage of a hilltop. say...

Dear Past, Dear Alexis

Alexis Ivy -

At Night

Sarah Dickenson Snyder -

Dry

Francine Witte -

[Tonight you are seated at the base of a tree in the desert…]

JeFF Stumpo -
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Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

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