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Karen Kao

Food Fight Grandma was born in 1892 in a village south of Shanghai, the name of which has been lost to family history. It might...

Rochelle Hurt

Lightboxes Yoko Ono – Cut Piece (1965) interactive performance with artist and scissors, filmed at Carnegie Recital Hall Faith Ringgold – American People #20: Die (1967) oil on...

Brian Benson

Love Story Six summers ago, on a sun-bleached dock in Beaufort, South Carolina, my friend Galen gave me the best hug of my entire life....

Brad Snyder

Rituals Whenever the Yankees play the Twins I think of the child we never had. I regret the connection. It feels cheap for a baseball...

Allison Griffith

A Messenger Between In the summer of 2022, we moved to South Bend, Indiana. It was once my college town, though I never paid much...

Marilyn Bousquin

Swinging in the Dark Wednesday, December 7, 2022 We talked by phone several times a week on my walks up Rivermont Avenue, but once you entered...

Lisa Rosenberg

Greek Coffee It’s easy to overlook the gifts of Greek coffee, especially if you’ve heard it described as “hot sludge” or “little cups of tar.”...

Christopher Notarnicola

FPO AE I bought a four-band puzzle ring from a shop beneath the Al Asad stadium. The proprietor asked if I was sure the ring...

Emily Brisse

Driving West Ten years ago, on each weekday morning in the months before my son was born, I drove west. I drove through countryside, past...

Carolyn Alessio

Tomorrow Times 3 Mensa means idiot in Mexican Spanish, an irony I learned from 28 sets of laughing, bilingual lips. My sophomore students would soon...

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