To celebrate Valentine’s Day 2021, PANGYRUS offers a round-up of pieces from our archives about love in its many forms: loves we hold close, loves long lost, straight love, queer love, self-love, and more.
In this time of fewer embraces, we need to hold good writing just a little longer and a little tighter. Consider these tender, funny, startling, aching pieces as our version of a heart-shaped box of chocolates to you, our readers. Enjoy.
1“Pastoral” By Kiki Petrosino
Where did it start? In a city of gardens & muck.
2“Appetite” by Kat Read
My husband Will told me that he once stood at the kitchen sink to eat a pig’s foot.
3“The Way Things Are” by Susan Volchok
… And, in the spring— as soon as possible, when the ground was just warming…
4“Volcano” by Jeffrey Perkins
Roman is running the LA marathon.
6“Into Love” by Nadia Colburn
Every kiss that was ever kissed—
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Combining ‘Pangea’ — the world continent — and ‘gyrus’– the ridges of the cerebral cortex crucial to verbal association, Pangyrus is about connection.
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