Unceded Land by Issam Zineh

by Erica Charis-Molling

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Erica Charis-Molling

Erica Charis-Molling is a lesbian poet, educator, and librarian. Her writing has been published in literary journals including Relief, Tinderbox, Redivider, Vinyl, and Entropy. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in the 2021 Orison anthology. A Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, she received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her chapbook, How We Burn, will be published as a part of the Robin Becker Series by Seven Kitchens Press in Spring 2022.

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Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays by Steve Fellner

by Amy Grier

Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays by Steve Fellner The Ohio State University Press, November 2021 “I wanted to eat lightbulbs. I wanted to hear my teeth crunch the little pieces. I wanted to swallow them, I wanted to feel them cutting the insides of my throat.” This striking admission begins the titular essay of

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Interview with Poet/Translators Dzvinia Orlowsky and Jeff Friedman

by William Doreski

Intro to Jastrun: Mieczysław Jastrun was born as Mojsze Agatstein in 1903 in Korolowka, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) and died in 1983 in Warsaw, Poland. A lyric poet and essayist of Jewish origin, he survived the terrible years of the Nazi occupation in Poland. During his lifetime he published a dozen volumes of poetry, including A

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An Interview with Jaimee Wriston Colbert

by Barrett Bowling

One of the most fascinating things about talking with writers is learning how and when they map out their projects and their work. What prompted them to write this piece, or how they knew a particular work was ready to send out into the world. When I sat down with Jaimee Wriston Colbert, author of

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