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Benjamin LeeAugust 11, 2018

Todd Kaneko twitter: @toddkaneko Todd Kaneko is the author of The Dead Wrestler Elegies (Curbside Splendor 2014) and co-author with Amorak Huey of the textboo...

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Read This, Watch That: This Shouldn’t Be Beautiful but it is & it’s Embarrassing

Claire HoppleAugust 4, 2018

“We literally made you a skeleton of hyperbole, to teach you to dream again.’” -- Keegan Lester, this shouldn’t be beautiful but it was & it was all i had s...

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Benjamin LeeAugust 2, 2018

Emily O'Neill twitter: @tabernacleteeth Emily O'Neill writes and tends bar in Boston, MA. She writes about grief, food & drink as refuge, the politics of ...

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Benjamin LeeJuly 27, 2018

Tara Isabel Zambrano twitter: @theinnerzone Tara Isabel Zambrano works as a semiconductor chip designer in a startup. She moved from India to the United Stat...

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Benjamin LeeJuly 20, 2018

Kwame Opoku-Duku twitter: @kwamethethird Kwame Opoku-Duku is a Ghanaian-American poet and fiction writer. Along with the poet Karisma Price, he is a founding ...

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Benjamin LeeJuly 13, 2018

Rebecca Kokitus twitter: @rxbxcca_anna Rebecca Kokitus is an emerging writer from the greater Philadelphia area. She writes poetry, prose and essays that expl...

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Read This, Watch That: Window Island

Claire HoppleJuly 7, 2018

“...has everyone always been a private pool of silent swimming words?’” -- Jane Alison, Nine Island   “We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ou...

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Benjamin LeeJuly 6, 2018

Athena Melliar twitter: @AthenaMelliar Athena Melliar is a feminist poet and essayist. Melliar’s writing faces gender injustices, critiques sexism, societal m...

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Benjamin LeeJune 29, 2018

Matthew Laverty twitter: @MattLavPoems Matthew Laverty is a poet and current editor of Blanket Sea Arts and Literary Magazine. He earned a BLA (with dual conc...

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Benjamin LeeJune 22, 2018

Gabrielle Williams twitter: @__gfw  Gabrielle Williams received her MFA in Creative Writing from UNLV and her BA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She ...

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Benjamin LeeJune 14, 2018

Irène P. Mathieu twitter:  @gumbo_amando Dr. Irène P. Mathieu is a pediatrician, writer, and public health researcher who has lived and wo...

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Benjamin LeeJune 8, 2018

Brandon Melendez twitter: @bamelendez12   Brandon Melendez is a Mexican-American poet from the sunny state of California. Brandon graduated from UC Be...

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Benjamin LeeJune 1, 2018

Do Nguyen Mai twitter: @DoNguyenMai  Do Nguyen Mai is a Vietnamese American poet from Santa Clarita, California. Her work is heavily influenced by her Vietnam...

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Benjamin LeeMay 19, 2018

Will Harris twitter: @soshunetwork  Will Harris is a writer, born and based in London. He works as an Assistant Editor for the Rialto and teaches at the Poetr...

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Read This, Watch That: Hunting Smoke

Claire HoppleMay 12, 2018

“The boy said, ‘It ain’t no different than shooting a deer.’ ‘When did you ever shoot a deer?’ ‘I guess I had it mixed up with the movies. But this was just--...

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Benjamin LeeMay 11, 2018

Savannah Slone twitter: @sslonewriter Savannah Slone is a queer writer who earned her B.A. in English: Professional and Creative Writing from Central Washingt...

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Benjamin LeeMay 4, 2018

Alana Folsom twitter: @axfolsom Alana Folsom is an administrator by day and a poet by night. She earned her MFA from Oregon State University; while earnin...

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Benjamin LeeApril 27, 2018

Olatunde Osinaike twitter: @tundelasoul Olatunde Osinaike is a Nigerian-American poet originally from the West Side of Chicago. A Bettering American Poe...

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Benjamin LeeApril 19, 2018

Chris Ames twitter: @_chrisames Chris Ames is a writer who also draws. Recently, his work has appeared in Electric Literature, 3:AM Magazine, Heavy Feathe...

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Read This, Watch That: When Going West Goes South

Claire HoppleApril 14, 2018

“It was a damn silly position to be in, trying to hold the bluff when it had already been called.” -- Halle Butler, Jillian   “I’ll give one of you two hu...

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Benjamin LeeApril 13, 2018

Angie Sijun Lou twitter: @kuntalope Angie Sijun Lou is a Chinese American writer from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Ninth Lett...

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Benjamin LeeApril 5, 2018

Jose Hernandez Diaz twitter: @JoseHernandezDz Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He holds degrees in English and creative writing from the Unive...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 30, 2018

Amy Saul-Zerby twitter: @amyszzz Amy Saul-Zerby is editor in chief of Voicemail Poems, an online spoken word based literary magazine founded some years ago by...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 23, 2018

Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice twitter: @thelegitKAR Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice is the editor of Split Lip Magazine, a literary journal publishing online monthly and in pri...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 15, 2018

Phillip B. Williams twitter: @PBW_Poet Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, Illinois native. He is the author of the book of poems Thief in the Interior (Alice J...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 9, 2018

C Pam Zhang twitter: cpamzhang C Pam Zhang writes about women: angry, ostracized, searching, strange, and beastly. (She's not very interested in writing about...

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Benjamin LeeMarch 1, 2018

Analicia Sotelo twitter: @AnaliciaSotelo Analicia Sotelo is a Houston-based Latinx poet who loves a good thrift shop. Her newly released c...

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Benjamin LeeFebruary 16, 2018

Jessica Morey-Collins twitter: @cautiousmonster Jessica Morey-Collins is a type-2 bipolar poet, educator, and planning student living in the Pacific Northwest...

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Read This, Watch That: Doppelgänger, Poltergeist

Claire HoppleFebruary 10, 2018

“...A snow globe, its surface so worn you can’t see what it holds, but by its heft you know the water still submerses the wintry scene inside, while nobody who ...

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Benjamin LeeFebruary 9, 2018

Alyssa Jordan twitter: @ajordan901 Alyssa Jordan is a freelance writer in California. She loves genre-bending work, and characters that do terrible, relatable...

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