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Fashion and Beauty with Poetess Vinny [by Virginia Valenzuela]
Dear Poetess Vinny, I'm about to publish my first volume of poetry with a small press and am going to be traveling to give readings. I'm in my early 30s and most of the…
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What We Don’t Talk about (by Nin Andrews)
It’s Monday, and I’m scrolling down my iPhone, reading headlines as I work out at the Y. The top stories are the sexy ones. The hot question of the morning: Will the FBI…
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Epigraph of the Month: James Baldwin, “Another Country”
from James Baldwin’s Another Country: They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most…
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A Day Saved by Poetry (by Nin Andrews)
Ever since Trump was elected, I have been trying out variations on the serenity prayer—God, grant me the serenity to accept that Trump is President and the wisdom not to go insane . .…
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Espèce de machine/Machine species [by Tracy Danison]
Quand elle sera, elle aussi, aussi fluide que cette eau, Et elle aura, elle, le geste de cette fille, sur le banc, celle-là, Qui hoche la tête, qui parle, chuchote presque. A sa sœur ? …
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“The Language” [by Robert Creeley]
Locate Ilove you some-where in teeth andeyes, biteit but take care notto hurt, youwant so much solittle. Wordssay everything. Ilove youagain, then whatis emptinessfor. To fill, fill.I heard wordsand words full of holesaching. …
