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mistake
I believe that it is logically impossible / to have a mistake in nature
Poetry & Prose
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The dream of bodies
Four poems from the forthcoming collection, “Lent”
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Lung Capacity
That you tend/ the family ghosts by never hitting the children/ Speak it, even while you are breaking.
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queer tongue gloss
Mavi Veloso’s queer trans language is always in flux, twisting Brazilian Portuguese and English phrases into new contortions that coat the tongue in a queer kind of gloss. Listen as she performs an essay-poem (or something like that). Supplemented by a queer abécédaire.
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The Painting
Thirty-two years after Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, it was discovered in the bedroom of a deceased woman in rural New Mexico. Only the painting knows how it got there.
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What Breaks
A Palestinian girl growing up in suburban Ohio is proud to receive an A- on her 9th grade genocide report. Later, grown up, she asks Can a fact be sad? I wish to know.
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Distance of Space
Six encounters at six social distances, told incrementally through prose and needle painting.
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Microcosm/Microcosme
Confined to a 9×10 foot bedroom in Ottawa, an artist creates reflects on the visible and invisible connectivity between the material and ephemeral.
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Neither Above Nor Below
Read this prize-winning short story about an imagined Jakarta in the year 2099.
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400 Years of Inequality
400 Years of Inequality is a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals calling on everyone — families, friends, communities, institutions — to plan their own solemn observance of the anniversary
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This is the land of people built like trees
Poetry that attempts to create moments of understanding, connection, and healing for Indigenous People.
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Marginal Equity: Poetry Reading on Indigenous Cultural Self-Determination
A book-length poem that parodies the form of a corporate/governmental prospectus—complete with opportunity statement, deliverables, and budget—all while exposing their smooth rhetoric, exploitative intentions, and empty promises.
