Whiskey and Time & Saint Maria Cries
Music by Stephanie Nagler Stephanie received her bachelor’s in contemporary music from the now defunct Santa Fe University of Art &...
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Pivot Point & Mirror
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If They Can, I Can
By Aluu Prosper ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Born and raised in Nigeria,...
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Watch on Me
By Tracy Porch ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Tracy Porch has had work...
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Poppies
By Elise Gagliardi ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Elise Gagliardi is a...
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You must believe your mother a proper darling, or an absolute enemy
By Akhila Pingali so when the gold in her ear catches the sun, it does not set fire to your eye. Your body, in circular purgatory— your...
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Winter Disguised as a Love Poem
By Amanda Roth after Matthew Olzmann So here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage might work: Because even after all this time,...
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My Mother and I
By Paula Gil-Ordoñez Gomez Our tongues were barely sweet save for summer banquets of condensed Milk and ripe mango magic. I inherited a...
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In a Historic Vanishing Act
By Rebecca Martin the woman with blunt force trauma from thousands of years ago gets back her face but not her name. In the podcast about...
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Homeward Bound
By Ariana Lee For Tai Nai Nai My Tai Nai Nai had a premonition that I would be a dancer. It happened in a flash, like the white-hot flash...
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Far Away
By Miranda Michalowski In this version of what happens you have fallen from a tree. You have hurt your ankle and I am telling you we...
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Baptize (verb)
By Kirsten Reneau To administer a baptism Ex: She baptizes herself during the summer, after she is left behind by a man she believed to...
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Divinity
By Sarah Horner Godhood is just like girlhood: A begging to be believed. Kristin Chang Pearly drops pour down rouged cheeks—we are...
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The Boy in Spaceship Shoes Teaches Me to Salsa
By Courtney Justus on a weeknight during Easter break at the Norcenter mall, his beat-up white sneakers in sweet synchronicity with the...
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The Opening of a Queer Universe
By Max Pasakorn “I know that when you look at me, there’s so much that you just don’t see.” The opening chords of Whitney Houston’s Run...
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Scar Tissue
By Mariah Rigg It is the last warm Wednesday in October and I am watching C swim through Mead’s Quarry, the leaves above him brushed in...
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Nothing Like the Sun
By Anna Morris Late one spring afternoon in college, I went to see Ed. As I creaked open the door to his room, he threw up all over the...
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Cluck
By Matt Ingoldby Police have pulled me over twice this week about my orchids. They think I can’t see the road through the forest on the...
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Gilda and The Three
By Katherine Sinback Every day after school got out, Gilda hopped onto the city bus, glided past the stop for her house, and let the bus...
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Brothers
By Gemini Wahhaj If anyone asked Humayun about his younger brother, he would laugh through one side of his mouth and state in a painful...
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