Do you need to be a good person in order to be a great poet?
(nonfiction)
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The flight attendant checked the row number printed on the overhead compartments, consulted her paper, then looked directly at Mia. “You are a doctor?”
(fiction)
The work is not going well. Why is the work not going well? I think. Wait. I ran out of medication.
(nonfiction)
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“Do you know what it means to be glorious in a way / even God doesn’t see?”
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“every long night before I met you // every long night when I wanted you”
The winner of ACM’s inaugural Nonfiction Contest
My mother tells me stories about when she was little and then makes me promise not to tell anyone.
(nonfiction)
I have not / strayed far from the dead. I see their hip favored / executives and can pick them out from big / crowds
She bravely gazes into the unknown without trying to articulate what gazes back.
(reviews)
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“Once upon a time, long ago in northern Hungary, the land of the Matyó, a beautiful boy and girl were deeply in love.”
(fiction)
That day has never ended. / The fence he built is still new.
The latest piece in our DEBUT section, which showcases the first literary work published by a writer, beyond a campus-only magazine
“Sometimes I feel like a beetle. / Hanging on to a blade of grass / for dear life while what others describe / as a gentle breeze knocks the wind out of me.”
(poetry)
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“I tried twitching my nose, but nothing happened.”
Entangled one with another they watch us. / The good died too soon.
(translations)
“A novel is a constructed self, a personhood, a point of view that monologues,” Eugene Lim tells interviewer Ru Marshall.
O, old ocean! the river has mixed with your waters / where I so often bathed
In the weeks and months after the operation, he’d wake from sleep, sounds tooting up from his throat not so much snores as noisy requests for air.
(fiction)
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“My real education during my DePaul years occurred on Monday nights at a jazz club called Orphans…”
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“She didn’t think it would last, this quasi-détente or halfhearted madness or whatever it was.”
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“I licked every word in the story, to know its taste”
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“Maybe the remnant tells the whole / story”
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“My teachers told me // I should practice, but they never said why.”
Revolution / is the party we throw / at our unhappiness when we discover it / looks like tyranny
(poetry)
“Shame and living, living with it, living through it, living past it. This is what these stories are made of.”
(reviews)
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“I collected dresses many sizes / Larger, dreamed of all the bodies crowded into those // Forms.”
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“Outside, harmonious cats / tread the pathway.”
“One of the biggest things that I think about when I’m writing is trusting the reader,” Giada Scodellaro tells interviewer Erik Noonan.
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“From space you can see the shimmer / of the thousands of immigrant children / wrapped in tinfoil sleeping on the desert // sand”
Paula Carter, author of No Relation, whose essays have appeared in The New York Times and Kenyon Review, has won the Another Chicago Magazine nonfiction award for her essay, “Correction Lines.”
The roof soars so high above the sky’s hanging at arm’s length / And you, dear, are now drunk on a thousand glasses of wine
“Looking up / the wave of your gaze arrived / upon my shore.”
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