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Jul 28, 20211 min read
There was no paradise behind, by Aaqib Khatibi
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Jul 19, 20211 min read
Victor, by Ainsley Atwood
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Jul 14, 20212 min read
Tides Rise, by Kelsey Flynn
Tides rise and walls fall A system built to keep muddy water from collapsing white walls Infrastructure made to keep fish in their barrel...
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Jul 13, 20212 min read
Sestina of Moscow, 1812, by Emilia Kelly
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Jun 23, 20211 min read
Fight Scene, by Jessica Sabo
Baby ballerinas skipped to Tchaikovsky, fine threads of hair crowning their heads and my hair, so tightly pulled into a knot my forehead...
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Jun 16, 20211 min read
Swamp Monster, by Emily Rozitis
At the very bottom of my bathtub, there is a space for the darkness. It exists for the dark ...
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May 26, 20211 min read
Delta Means Change, by Lisa Lundeen
What is the landscape of my life these days? Mudflat sounds about right—the mud part and the flat part, messy, shoe-sucking,...
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May 12, 20213 min read
Collisions, by Ben Kassoy
I spent so many days wandering the wreckage and possibility of the space between the buildings and reverberating from the shock of you,...
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Apr 21, 20211 min read
Bruised Mother, by Ashley Kirkland
topless in the grey light of the master bath, accompanied by store-bought seashells and soaps, a painting of dune grass, remember how we...
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805lit
Apr 14, 20212 min read
Asian American Translations, by Molly Zhu
I only know Power from the other side of my mother’s eyes when she asks me, what does it mean, my only job is to dress the slur in...
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805lit
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Leave me, by Zainab Batool
If your pain could speak to you, it would say "leave me" You've been taking me all along Carrying the ache in your hands. Halt your steps...
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Mar 10, 20212 min read
I am Fermenting, by Ellen Gwin
In my bitter sixteens I tasted like sweet, succulent blackberries. As dark as I presented myself, my skin oozed red sap onto anyone with...
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Feb 3, 20212 min read
Boy Lazarus, by Taylor Leigh Harper
Tell me who raised you again, dusted dirt off your saffron-soured bones? After your resurrection, you smelled of peat moss, dirty socks,...
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Dec 30, 20201 min read
We Shredded Books on the Library Floor, by Neil Kennedy
We shredded books on the library floor. I felt like committing an awful sin. I wanted something I couldn’t ask for and tore the...
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Dec 16, 20201 min read
Approximations, by Tania Mitra
Flustered, I call my mother— “Ma, how many spoons of Ginger-Garlic paste do I put?” First, I spent 19 years longing To leave home, and...
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Nov 18, 20201 min read
Two Works: Collage Poetry + Graphic Lit
Psalm With Passing Train, by Despy Boutris Hair, by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland Despy Boutris is published or forthcoming in American...
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Nov 10, 20202 min read
Dwojak (The Polish Word for Twin), by Brooke Lehmann
I catalog beauty, collect it like stones in a river gathered together, letting the rush of water smooth their course edges. I hope the...
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