Hannah Rae Powell began illustrating to distract herself from her career, and she did it so well that it became almost like a second one. Her playful, colorful illustrations evoke Matisse’s La Danse adorned with floral patterns. They have seduced thousands of followers on Instagram, as well as gallerists and fashion brands. Hannah lives in […]
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Mónica de la Torre’s marvelous work of art and language, Repetition Nineteen, weaves its way into the world this month to make our lives a little brighter. A vivid and thoughtful bilingual book, this work inspires readers to consider the misunderstandings and reliability of translating and code-switching, and gives us permission to fill in the […]
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only room in my bodyfor so much belief not altar nor apparitionbut avarice, but all humanity in a slow slide down. living in an indifferent place i cannot imagine the skyalso governed by neglect. if there is a god, where is the lightning with my name? if there are ghosts,why have none of them come? Cassandra de […]
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After Antonín Dvořák Mvt. I: Allegro in / the belly / of / the woods / we toss kindling into a pit // jagged geometry /of combustion // strike matches on our skin //watch the campfire work / its teeth through mountain blackness // & I am incendiary // north windlurching / in from / upper / […]
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a hue of hospital neon sits above exposed cotton guts of waiting room sofa in the early hours of my procession, morning orange draws a halo around my pale head. there’s a field in the midwest where be a man still echoes off the corners of tick-painted weeds resting atop a cliff overlooking a shallow marsh. it is too late to go back, one of the […]
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after Anne Sexton’s “Yellow” When I finally feel safety again I’ll work it around in my mouthuntil it’s all balled up, I’ll spit it out, I’ll bury it shallow in a loamy field. I’ll plant a shield of sunflowers around it, I’ll encircle them with apricotpits, I’ll pluck every downy feather in sight, I’ll write a poem called Feral […]
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VAGABOND CITY 