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Signs of the Times

Suvi Booth
  • Los Angeles
  • August 30
In August, the names of the dead linger on the fence next to the COVID safety signs. Standing on the bridge, you gaze through torn sheets that read “Say Their Names.”
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Wanting Whisky

Bruce Louis Dodson
  • Borlange, Sweden
  • August 15
Can I afford to take the risk of stepping out into a toxic atmosphere? Is whisky worth risking my life, and the lives of those I might come in contact with? I decide it is.
Birds

Everybody Knows

Anisha Sridhar
  • New Jersey
  • August 3
Upon cushioned feet, they navigated the systems they had built. They moved like water through the storm.
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Essentials

Eric Carter
  • DMV
  • July 27
Sports have always been on the leading edge of forward political thought in American culture.  Joe Louis was the one of the first antifa.
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We Would Wake Up Pink

Catherine Gans
  • New Orleans
  • October 14
Free of that lingering itch of/ Having forgotten something/ That feeling which means/ Something is truly gone       
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The Long Coiled Cord

Katie Mitchell
  • Georgia
  • October 7
As a mother, I cannot find the ground in every moment. This space sometimes feels like a tight cage, and sometimes it is nothing but wide open space with no boundaries at all.
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We The People

Isabelle Guzman
  • New Orleans
  • August 30
A love letter to John Lewis, in pictures.
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Beach Time

Rodrigo Toscano
  • New Orleans
  • October 12
I want to agree,/ but ripples over there you can see/ the white caps of a dark, purple wave
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Heat

Ron Riekki
  • Los Angeles
  • October 10
and he’s smoking/ in his gown/ his face a heat-stroke maroon
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Note

John Zedolik
  • Pittsburgh
  • October 10
heat will come down but cannot erase/ the knee bent heavy on the neck-bone
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Call It The Same

Nathan Porceng
  • Washington
  • September 30
I inspect my work closely,/ for it’s mine alone to inspect.
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Sacred Cows

Eric Carter
  • DMV
  • July 21, 2020
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Minneapolitan June

Zoe Peterson
  • Minneapolis
  • July 15, 2020
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Quinn’s Kettle of Fish

K. Arja Opprecht
  • New Orleans
  • July 14, 2020
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Between Freedom and Health

Michael Kunz
  • New Orleans
  • June 9, 2020
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The Survey

K. Arja Opprecht
  • New Orleans
  • June 9, 2020
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  • Journals

A Crown Was Given

David Brazil
  • New Orleans
  • June 3, 2020
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  • Fiction

The Late Mr. Corona

Zachary Ambrose Woodward
  • DC
  • June 1, 2020

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If God Is A Virus

Seema Yasmin
  • California
  • September 29, 2020
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Salami Is Your Talisman

Gabriella Miotto
  • California
  • September 8, 2020
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Temperature Check

Marj Hogan
  • Oregon, Portland
  • September 2, 2020
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Afternoon Tea With God

Athena Nassar
  • Georgia
  • August 6, 2020
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A Triptych of Poems

Clay Thistleton
  • Australia
  • July 27, 2020
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  • Poetry

3000 Ancestros

Nicole Rivera
  • NYC
  • July 21, 2020
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  • Poetry

Hey Medusa

Kari Gunter-Seymour
  • Appalachia
  • July 4, 2020
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We Would Wake Up Pink

  • Catherine Gans
  • Poetry
  • New Orleans
  • October 14
Free of that lingering itch of/ Having forgotten something/ That feeling which means/ Something is truly gone       
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Beach Time

  • Rodrigo Toscano
  • Poetry
  • New Orleans
  • October 12
I want to agree,/ but ripples over there you can see/ the white caps of a dark, purple wave
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Heat

  • Ron Riekki
  • Poetry
  • Los Angeles
  • October 10
and he’s smoking/ in his gown/ his face a heat-stroke maroon
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Note

  • John Zedolik
  • Poetry
  • Pittsburgh
  • October 10
heat will come down but cannot erase/ the knee bent heavy on the neck-bone
katie

The Long Coiled Cord

  • Katie Mitchell
  • Uncategorized
  • Georgia
  • October 7
As a mother, I cannot find the ground in every moment. This space sometimes feels like a tight cage, and sometimes it is nothing but wide open space with no boundaries at all.
Razor Art - by Hayden Keefer

Call It The Same

  • Nathan Porceng
  • Poetry
  • Washington
  • September 30
I inspect my work closely,/ for it’s mine alone to inspect.
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If God Is A Virus

  • Seema Yasmin
  • Poetry
  • California
  • September 29
God is making babies in your tender lymph nodes giggling when you prod the swollen knots
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Salami Is Your Talisman

  • Gabriella Miotto
  • Poetry
  • California
  • September 8
It penetrates your ritual afternoon nap/ and you are temporarily healed/ by this dish, with its salt

From the Archives

Some of our best writing from the earliest days of the shutdown.
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I Want You To Find Me When This Is Over

Daiquiri Jones
  • New Orleans
  • March 24
You bought two guns/ and left for the north east./ I am calm, you said.
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Burn the Whole Thing Down

Zachery Quale
  • New Orleans
  • March 23
"What’s happening is many of these rodents are looking for an alternative food source, and they’re moving from, many times, inside the buildings to out into the streets."
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Massage Therapist’s Lament

Betsy Housten
  • New Orleans
  • March 23
This is an easy time to wish you did not work/ with your hands.
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Music to Listen to With Your Significant Other During a Pandemic

Paris Tate
  • New Orleans
  • March 22
Because we became lost teens of the storm, assigned/ to the refrigerator with garbage bags and bleach/ Amid power outages and school closures/ After Hurricane Katrina, we learned to shrug early/ As the city went through its own awkward stage. 
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No One Is Doing The Dishes, So I’m Eating Sandwiches

Ida Dunnitt
  • New Orleans
  • March 16
My best friend seemed to struggle with whether or not to tell me about her post-Katrina experience in our neighborhood. She settled on, “I’m not talking about people breaking in to try to steal stuff.” At that, I took a seat. She continued, “Here, take my hittin’ stick.”
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Toxic Non-Monogamy in the Age of Corona

Dolores Park
  • New Orleans
  • March 14
We’re packing- or, they’re packing- “the apartment” while I write this, one of my lovers (and their other lover too).
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