

Comic: "First Date"
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"Katniss Everdeen, Whole Human" by Rebecca Clingman
I’m not qualified to write about Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I: I never read the Hunger Games books, and prior to this, the third movie...
~ First, last, who cares ~ by Hamida Mitha
I was fleeting infatuation A sort of numb intoxication Like trying out a new hobby And realizing it's not for you I was an impulse buy...


"Withdrawn" by Summer Dowd-Lukesh
“I thought you might know why when our bodies ought to bring surcease from our tortured minds, they fail and collapse; and why, when we...
"love poem for an astronomer" by Eva Valenti
the moon burned through a jungle of sky through an eternity of space, and i was unwilling, or unable, to confront it but your...


"Horizons" by Rachel Davidson
I’ve accrued thousands of photos since moving to Japan in August 2014, and I often take them from the same vantage point: classic...


"Non-existent sexism or: how I kinda understand what Chimamanda Adichie was saying" by Genevieve Aga
This past fall I joined an intergenerational (ranging from age 20-75) women’s book club in the Washington, D.C. area; everyone gave her...
"Soup (A Family Recipe)" by Leah Donnella
Total time: 5 generations Prep: 94 years, back and forth from now Cook: 4 hours, 18 min., 1 pregnant pause Yield: 0 to 12 servings...


THE PROCESS OF WEEDING OUT with Ali Marks
Every once and a while an album comes along that completely changes my perspective. The first time I heard the Cranberries, the Fleet...
"My Dying Diane" by Ellie McElvain
To Diane the Guzmania, My sweet bromeliad “Durable plant; dramatic central flower”, You’re dying. You’re dying and it is beyond my...