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I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining the hg888皇冠 team as the new Creative Nonfiction Editor. Susette Brooks, my predecessor, has moved to Baltimore for a job opportunity.
诗歌
Your lopsided father stuck the loose stars to your sky one summer. 即使是现在，它们也会在那里发光, 好像, 像你这样的, they are still dumbstruck by the memory of his hulking grace. 一只脚踩在床上, 一个在五斗柜上, his finger pressed each phosphorescent shard into eternity, 太高了(...]
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他们在讲笑话.V. 在深夜. They were driving the school bus, lifting me to drinking fountains I couldn’t reach. 他们说得太多了, 让hg888皇冠手机版安静下来, 他们正在修理损坏的楼梯, 他们喝醉了就跳舞, 当周围没有人的时候哭. 它们听起来就像正在冒烟的肺，[...]
诗歌
他们说. 他说:“它看起来像个魔鬼。. 它指控[他], 好像他才五岁, It Hulk Hogan— two legacies ghost-stenciled into concrete, 一个影子筛成灰烬. 他晚上睡觉，没有遗憾. His family certain as the closed lid of a coffin they will be safe. 他说，事情确实发生了...]
诗歌
Two days later, the surgery is already a moon landing, and I’m its plowed landscape of proof. 在浴室的镜子里, my belly’s all unwavering flags and stitched tracks on an aching, 无风的设置. The Betadine sticks – a mustard slick – for a week, and I don’t know what to do with the photos: [...]
诗歌
在pathmark, you would sneak bottles of pantene pro v shampoo and conditioner into your momma’s shopping cart and each time, 在注册, your momma would notice and tell the cashier you can take that one off, 每次你都会尖叫, I wanna have hair like those women in the commercials! 和[...]
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The twins— those grinning gangsters never seen without chains tethered around their necks and wrists, hold gold guns that glisten against the clever silver sky. 你想抱抱吗? I grip the grip and for a moment I get deer hunting—that transition from boy to man or even girl to woman, 像Latonia...]
诗歌
1. When my Father was moving from being to being nothing I was about to go for a bike ride. His right hand rose up from under the blue blanket as he patted the bed for me to sit. I sat and stroked his face so thin and unshaven it appeared slender [...]
诗歌
By the roots of my hair some god got hold of me. 我从电压和带刺铁丝网中活了下来. Now each day is clerestory, each night a palimpsest of scars. 民兵们穿上靴子等待着. 在圣坛上，鸽子互相啄得鲜血淋漓. 蜘蛛穿过它看不见的电线。...]
小说
It’s a comfort to know someone who’s as neurotic as I am. My friend and coworker Jane gives me that particular solace. Jane, like me, tends to get too attached to inanimate objects. 然而，我正在努力改变. My husband, Walt, and I married three years ago—a first marriage late in life for both [...]
小说
就像我通常在一天结束时做的那样, before making the climb up my apartment building’s steps, I reach into the breast pocket of my denim jacket to find my apartment key. Sifting through loose change and tangled headphones, my hand wades through my pocket until the cool brass surface of the key [...]
非小说类
On my last day of radiation, I sat eagerly awaiting my release from six months of treatment. 在期待, 我的眼睛扫视着荧光灯, crowded waiting room of Abramson Cancer Center. As I waited for my name to be called for the last time, I thought about the young girl—about five years old—who I [...]
小说
How do you explain to your six-year-old daughter, 谁一个月和你呆两个周末, 你杀了一只狗? That while you were returning from market in the van—you driving, 她睡着了，一只狗跑到了路上, 你击中了它. The driver has just turned thirty and thought the number would protect [...]
诗歌
我对是否按这个按钮犹豫不决. 我暂停. I ponder the little blue birdie that tells all of our thoughts to the world, wonder if bald eagles have already gone extinct―dropped dead to the earth like bombs built of bone, 嘴和羽毛. 说我生活在一个没有符号的时代...]
诗歌
公寓里有烟. Margarita comes to sit and packs feet into shoes. 下一班时间到了. 如果你相信这是原罪. 他们已经开始把hg888皇冠手机版围起来了, vienen帕拉hg888皇冠手机版, 在泽西岛, 在洛杉矶没有人在沃尔玛工作, 继续和医院. hg888皇冠手机版不会在那里挑选...]
审查
Dawn Manning Packs a Subtle Punch in Postcards from the Dead Letter Office
Philadelphia poet Dawn Manning brings a historic influence to her writing in Postcards from the Dead Letter Office, using a form of Japanese lyric poetry called the Tanka to create quick, hard-hitting poems that float on the tongue and leave lasting images on small pieces of page. In an engrossing debut, Manning weaves snippets of [...]
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爱你的艾米丽·罗斯·科尔 & 一把上膛的枪(Minerva Rising Press, 2017)
Emily Rose Cole won the 2014 Sandy Crimmins National Prize in 诗歌 for the poem “Self-Portrait as Rapunzel,由杰弗里·伊森·李法官选择. Her poem considers the relationship between Rapunzel and her mother and how a person accepts or rejects various aspects of abuse or isolation because of the attention or even affection that [...]
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乔治•桑德斯, author of Lincoln in the Bardo and several excellent short story collections, visited Rutgers the other day to do a reading. I went to his master class, which was an informal-ish discussion and Q&A for students and rabid Saunders fans like me. He showed up, this ordinary man in jeans and a button [...]
面试
An 面试 with Philadelphia Writer Larry Loebell
费城作家拉里·罗贝尔, who placed third in hg888皇冠’ 2015 Marguerite McGlinn 小说 Award for his story 49 Seconds in the Box, 刚刚hg888皇冠了一本中篇小说集. Titled Seven Steps Ahead, it is his second collection of stories in as many years. In a recent interview, Loebell described these works of fiction [...]
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审查 of Nathan Alling Long’s 怀疑的起源
怀疑的起源, Nathan Alling Long’s glorious debut collection of short fictions, is dedicated ‘to those who don’t quite fit in.“有五十层楼高, 有些不超过一段, could serve as a missal for a vast congregation of outcasts and wanderers; angst-ridden adolescents, 性爱的探险家, 和哲学自我搜索者. 这些故事- [...]