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The Breaking Point
Written by Aniah Hill A screamed escaped out the small window above the ivory toilet where she had tried to hide after breaking free from her closet prison He slammed her against the door frame, again and again, until she stopped struggling. Then he slapped her across the face, into another state of mind where…
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Two Rituals, Two Days, Same Me
Written by Corrine Hickey It is a summer afternoon in Westwood, Southern California, and I am 19 years old. The air is hot, no hint of a breeze under the broiling sun. I walk downhill over jagged sidewalk, terraced by roots, to Ike’s Place, a sandwich shop. Sunlight streams across persimmon colored tile as I…
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Cootie Loved Be-Bop
Written by Gloria Keeley “Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change – drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.” –Trumpeter Cootie Williams his trumpet could chatter likeechoes of Harlemalong the corridors of Nah’Leansout the mouth of Route 66the band in syncthe reeds pure weedblowing…
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Thinking of a Place
Written by Peng Ngin Jessica rolled down the window of the taxi. The air felt like a summer night in Philadelphia where she is from: warm, languid, still. The difference on this quiet road outside a coastal town facing the South China Sea was the scent—of perfumed blossoms mixed with rotting organic matter. She tried…
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Boxer Paused
Boxer Paused, by Leland Jung
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A Conversation with Judy Halebsky
Forum student editors Jesse Senzer and Kristie Barlas recently met with author Judy Halebsky to discuss her newest book of poems Spring and a Thousand Years, and her relationship to past poets as well as the craft itself. The full video interview with Halebsky, and her reading of her poem “Portage” is available on the…
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Beyond Narcissus’ Pool by Thomas A. E. Hesketh
My friend, Let me ask of you, if I may, with the aid of the Muse who has guided me thus far, along the path I have travelled, which intersected yours, as you may recall, when the Sun shone brighter in the sky, stars were fixed, and storm clouds were another person’s shadow, about a matter of some concern, personally; an…
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Portage by Judy Halebsky
Don’t tell my father that the police drive down my street in armor standing on their bumpers holding AK 47s we march down Telegraph with signspeople come out of their houses cheer for us as we pass at the Berkeley Y, I hear women speaking my grandmother’s language the one she tried to pass on to my father don’t…
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Interview Hatchling by Temme von Lackum Dedlow
“Hatchling” (Poetry) by Temme von Lackum Dedlow Forum: How did you start writing? Dedlow: Writing has been a creative and emotional outlet for me for probably nearly as long as I’ve been able to produce words. I owe a lot of that to early encouragement from family (related and not) and mentors, notably a first…
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