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"About the Work" with Carmen Petaccio
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"About the Work" with JSA Lowe
"About the Work" with JSA Lowe In our "About the Work" series, Natalie Tombasco asks recent contributors for insight into their writing...
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Book Review: Dear Diaspora
Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen Li Zhuang After a wave of anti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes during the pandemic, there comes a tide of...
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40.2 Darius Atefat-Peckham
Here’s a Love Poem Sleeping together in bed, thinking about how much I love your tired voice, tired you, I call it, love the tired curve...
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40.2 Bret Yamanaka
✧ Winner of the 2021 Gearhart Poetry Contest ✧ Selected by Rosebud Ben-Oni 「Obake Obachan」 Diane Yayoe Suzuki disappeared on July 6,...
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40.2 Carmen Petaccio
VR After Amazon laid me off I started wandering around my dying hometown mall pretending to look for a job. This was my teenage shopping...