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Madeline
The shortest sentence in my autobiography is one word
Archipelago
Ceremony
Portrait of Madame X
Small Songs of the Body
Morphology
“George Ferrandi’s ‘fellow feelings’ by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
“Artificial Bodies: A Miscellany”
Phenomenological Thresholds of Art, Poetry, and Perception
Cruelty
Diasporican Interview from the Moon
The true meaning, ready to be decoded
Time Spent
Extranjera
Foreigner
Človek
Human
The Hunted
Self-Portrait Using a Single Mirror
Self-Portrait Without a Mirror
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
“A Correspondence with Brian Brodeur”
People Like Us
exercise in keeping it all in
Self-Portrait
When You Put on Your Binder Smelling Like Lavender
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
From Anger to Forgiveness
Echo
Pearl Ghazal
Notes from the White City
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
On Learning to Love the Sea
Review by Brandon Young | “Deluge” by Leila Chatti
“A Conversation with torrin a. greathouse”
The Teacher
Perish
Boy of the Betel Leaf
We Have To
Nigredo (The Precondition for Circumstance)
A Fairy Tale
Poles
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
Review by Michelle Goshen | “Bloomland,” by John Englehardt
A Good Girl
Goshen, Virginia
from ‘You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival’
Of cabbages and kings
Letter to the Neighbor after We Moved to the Good Part of Town
Camouflage
You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
India West
The Lie
from The House of Adventure
Tapping into Roots
Why I Left Academe for Massage Therapy
Agnostic Wandering
Fish
Interior with Mickey Mantle
The Literary Scholar
Killarney
Borderless
Ongoing
from You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
Review by Emilia Phillips | “Eye Level by Jenny Xie”
Mother, before Cremation/Me, Standing before a Mirror Later
from “You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival” by Wesley Gibson
Review by Weston Morrow | “How to Dress a Fish by Abigail Chabitnoy”
Review by Matthew Phipps | “In the Distance by Hernan Diaz”
Ancestral and Maternal Connection as Creative Forces
Desire
What I Am Looking for Is What Is Looking
Nothing But
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us
A. Real. Uncle. TomTom.
Polyphemus, Shy & Likely on the Spectrum, Loves
Fish
Ann Arbor
Call Me by My Name
LeAnne Howe
“A Reading by Ru Freeman & LeAnne Howe”
from The Wangs vs. the World
Live Oak
A Love Letter to My Panic
New Year
Post-Election Morning
Birthday
OBIT (Victoria Chang)
Blue
Wesley Gibson
You Are Here
Cabell First Novelist | Reading Loop Introduction
The Long Walk Home
The Summer Birthdays
Solutions
Eve as 16-Year-Old Girl Who Eats an Earthworm on a Dare
Mirrorform: Shapeshifter
Icarus in the House of Spirits
The Troubles of Men: Holometaboly
Hamlet
Force Visibility
Memory of Museum of Memory
Review | The Worlds We Think We Know, by Dalia Rosenfield
Review | Girls Made of Snow and Glass, by Melissa Bashardoust
“A Conversation with Dorothy Allison”
Garlic Baby
Poupée de cire, poupée de son
At a Stranger’s Funeral
She Negative
i know who you are
Soap
Story
The Chimpanzee
Girl in Sheep’s Clothing (1989)
Gỏi Gà
How Long Have You Been Sleeping, Snow?
Mr. Hen
Letter 15
Letter 2
Letter 5
Las Palmas Reales
Review | There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
The Stable Ambivalence
Sally Isn’t Doing Well
Fable
Epitaph on a Stone
Lord and Chariot
Mood for Love
The Invalid Master and His Slave Take a Train from Macon to Savannah, 1848
My English Teacher Tells Me
Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange Give Me You
When I Started to Cry
Review | Constellarium, by Jordan Rice
Review | You May See a Stranger, by Paula Whyman, Matt Phipps
Review | Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis
“A Conversation with Rickey Laurentiis”
Accountability for Your Blind Sheep
Ai cântat frumos dar nu ți-ai schimbat viața
You Sang Beautifully but You Didn’t Change Your Life
Mr. Darcy (These men can be collected)
Detroit Boxtrain Wood Finisher
Canción familiar
Family Song
Girl
Review | A Replacement Life, by Boris Fishman
Review | Thief in the Interior, by Phillip B. Williams
Swan's Beak
Renewal
o(vers)ight
At the Arlee Pow-Wow with My Unborn Child
A Beaver and His Pile of Wood
Epithalamion
Latent
Yellowhammer
Accidental
The Self and the Soul
The Joy of Baking
This Is a Love Story
On Flesh
Rosalie Ruth Moffett
I Sing the Body Aquatic
The Universe
Dear Bose-Einstein Condensate
Self-Portrait as Ernestine “Tiny” Davis
The Villain & the Helpless One
Introduction to Roger Reeves
The Dimensions of the Anomaly
Title
Molting
Dirt-eating Poem
Metamorphic Diary
Myopia: A Cartography
Voice of a Silhouette
Peter Sellers on The Muppet Show
“KM4” Poems & Drawings by Tom Sleigh and Michael Hafftka
Reckoner
Review | Signaletics, by Emilia Phillips
Review | Note Pinned to the Back of a Dress , by Aubrey Lenahan
Review | Reliquary, by Matthew Minicucci
Hourglass I
Introduction to Stagecoach: The Paintings
Dedication through Destruction: Thoughts on Writing Practice
Ritual with Seven Selves
The Wine-Dark Sea (II)
The Wine-Dark Sea (IV)
To a Girl Named Siberia
Stalker
Story Problem
Biosentimentality
49 Answers to 50 Questions
Toad, Hog, Assassin, Mirror
We'll Always Have Négritude
hines ward jr. lunches at the blue house 2006
“Las Meninas and Perro Semihundido” Tori Sharpe
The Geography of Anatomy by County
Art 180
Snowbound
Mulatto Sermon
Orphan
The Nervous System Speaks
Apparitions and Incarnations
Self-Checkout
Deleted Scenes
Down and Out
Wynona’s Hiatus
Hibernaculum
Isobars
The Wynona Poems
Under Skins
Two Girls Off Quarry Road
The Minor Characters As They Appear, Amy Beeder
Review | Mathilda Savitch, by Victor Lodato
Review | In the Time of the Girls, by Anne Germanacos
from Unseen Character, David Rob
from Unseen Character
from Unseen Character
Hand
from Mathilda Savitch
from “Dear Sara Jane”
Mister Sel
Ceci N’est Pas . . .
La Moustache
“I Reject All Likeness . . . ”
The city was burning—or it wasn’t.
Ephemera
severe
from The Scrapbook of Yevgeny the Robot Arm
Attachment: Virtual Matryoshka
The Delinquent Girls
The Drama Girls
The Geek Girls
The Quiet Girls
Tagore Variations 2
Review of I Was the Jukebox by Sandra Beasley
from "Dear Sara Jane," Victor Lodato
Not-Autobiography, Brittany Cavallaro
Flights Out, Flights In, Jenny Johnson
Poetry as a Second Language, Yu Shibuya
Review of Destruction Myth, by Mathias Svalina, and Sum of Every Lost Ship, by Allison Titus
Coming Through: The Intensity and Intimacy of Levis and Caravaggio
Review of From the Fever-World, Susan S. Williams
Curators’ Commentary by Ashley Kistler and Carol Ann Lorenz
Photographs by Lalla Essaydi: L’Écriture Féminine / Le Corps Féminin
Birthmark
Son
Concentrations
Review of Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito
Review of Heathen by Lesley Wheeler
Baptism
Joanna Pearson, How to Rid Yourself of Poetry—Almost
Powwow Ghazal
Doppler
A System Pamphlet (With Illustration of How They Hide)
Near Sleep in a Smoky Room
string theory
Self-Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots, Aliscon Pelegrin
Self-Portrait & Other Calculations
“I”
Review of Salvinia Molesta by Victoria Chang
The Common Swallow, David Caudle
Pear
Letter to the City Bayou by Its Sign: Beware Alligators
Review of The History of Anonymity, by Jennifer Chang
Two selections from A Thousand Penelopes
Review of The View from Zero Bridge, by Lynn Aarti Chandhok
Tyranny of the Theoretical
Tyranny of the Theoretical (Freud)
A Conversation with Chris Abani
A Reading by Chris Abani
Dear Sis
Rae's Mask
The Chinese Compass Lost Its Bearings
Hummingbird
Walking Houseproud
Self-Representation in the Arabian Gulf, Blackbird
Self-Representation in the Arabian Gulf, Blackbird
Fragment 12 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Fragment 14 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Fragments from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Eastwoodesque
Three Parts Make a Hole
Illinois, Scene One
Illinois, Scene Two
Notes Toward a Nonexistent Poet, Jehanne Dubrow
The Boy Who Walked to Distant Lands
Chicago: A Commonplace Novel, Amey Miller
How to Measure Your Breast Size, Laura M. Wiesman
Ventriloquist on the Moor, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Ventriloquist on an Off Day, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Film Noir, Catherin Pierce
In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Slasher Flick, Cahterine Pierce
In Which I Imagine Myself Into a Western, Cahterine Pierce
An Interview with Rebecca Black
Introduction: A Conversation with Rebecca Black
Review of Inkblot and Altar by Laura Van Prooyen
Khaled Mattawa, A Conversation with Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa, A Conversation With Khaled Mattawa
Possum Agonistes
Three Missives
The 30-Kilometer Walk
In England, the Formidible Ms X Takes Directions from Some Guy Named Z
I am not a man; I am dynamite
Mrs. Cannon Passes the Parthenon on Her Way Home from Work
The Quiet Transvestite in Spring
Seven Disappointments (2)
Rameau
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Montgomery
Kehinde Wiley's Willem van Heythuysen
Introduction, The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
The Dear Boy
Caitlin Horrocks, It Looks Like This
Pohamba
The Volunteer
Walls
The Lady Vanishes
Somewhere Other Than Florida
Reunion
Laura Lark | Artist Statement
Laura Lark | 10 Really Short Videos
Tiny
Tiny
Blackbird, “Multiple Personality Disorder”: Speakers and Listeners in Lee Smith’s Novels
Still Life with Dog
Abuelita
Estuary
Slept
This Is Not an Elegy
Bela
Are you expressing a desire to know me?
Review | A Shot in the Canon’s Mouth: Catherine Wing’s Enter Invisible
The Straw Market, Synopsis and Production Notes
Roulade
Juliet and Air
Juliet and Dark
Three Go to the Zoo
Self Knowledge
Rothko’s Earth and Green, 1955
Memory of What I Should Regret
Review | Circle, by Victoria Chang
George Ferramdi | Superhero, Sidekick, Gaggle of Ghosts
The State-Line Stripper
In the Canyons, Hidden Farms
Choose Your Own Adventure
John Bresland | Les Cruel Shoes Introduction
From Long for This World
The True Daughter
My Brother in the Basement
The Feeder, 3
Review | Birthmark, by Jon Pineda
Wendy Ewald | In Peace and Harmony: Carver Portraits
Blackbird Feature, Wendy Ewald, December 20, 2004
Review | What Narcisissm Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland
Review | You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival, by Wesley Gibson
Blackbird Feature, Wesley Gibson, from You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
Memory & Memoir, Blackbird
Blackbird Feature, An Interview with Jon Pineda, July 2, 2004
Woman in the I-65 Rest Stop
Ode
Self-Portrait in the New World Order
Self-Portrait with Eyes Closed
Fiona, from Late Bloomer
Professional Cinderella: Disney World Employee Profile
Desperado
Where We Live, J. D. Stevens
Learning to Use the Stick
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex
Review | My Father's People: A Family of Southern Jews, by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Helfgott's Parade, Dinah Ryan
The Self-Portrait Project
Artist's Statement
Fox Fire at the Changing Tree
Yes?