Essayist-cum-novelist Melissa Faliveno on writing addiction and desire with tenderness and teeth
These poets explore grief about families, nations, and systems of oppression
The rules dictated that I hide not only my sensitivity but my essential being in the world
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SupportIn “Let the Poets Govern,” Camonghne Felix considers fugitivity, political responsibility, and poetic form as a blueprint for resistance
“Free the Fupa,” a graphic narrative by Amanda Awanjo
Jordy Rosenberg’s “Night Night Fawn” is a Marxist, trans, hysterical accounting of a terminally ill Jewish mother unrepentantly looking back on her life
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“Free the Fupa,” a graphic narrative by Amanda Awanjo
“Please Accept This Token of Thanks” by Christine Vines, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
Two poems by Rosebud Ben-Oni
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