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Psilocybin Journey Notes 10/27/22
Subhaga Crystal Bacon | POETRY | "10:00: ----------------------- Invocation ------- / Altar / Intention / 10:40: Ingest ------ / Walk..."


Hair Salon + Personal Attention ASMR in Remembrance of My Mother’s Voice
Liz Kerin | NONFICTION | "Hey there, c’mon in. / My name is Bailey, and I’ve been so looking forward to our appointment today. I’m glad you took time out of your incredibly busy, stressful day to unwind with me and let me give your beautiful hair the attention it deserves..."


A Book of Fixation: On Sally Lawton’s On Second Thought
"With the cool precision of Joan Didion and the smoky lyricism of Renata Adler, Sally Lawton’s On Second Thought (Diagram Press, 2023) is a scintillating collection of production diaries, script marginalia, and short auto-fictions that probe motherhood, filmmaking, and ways of seeing with ardent acumen. What does it mean, On Second Thought asks, to understand a narrative? To figure out the innate connection between two seemingly disparate ideas or things?"


From Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation
Sarah Mangold | POETRY | "Spirit Psychic Living | Dead..."


Poetics of Limbo
Michelle Phương Hồ | AWARD FOR HYBRID WRITING | "To be recognized in this country, I became a defendant. I was handed an orange bucket..."


"Opium and Ambergris" by Colin Dekeersgieter
"I find enjambment most compelling when it’s a means to shock, and the subversion or undercutting you mention. I mean shock as a kind of..."


"TRANZ" by Spencer Williams
"The mother figure is, at once, my literal birth mother, my adoptive mother, and a nebulous origin point..."


A Secret Third Thing: Rachelle Toarmino and Lucy Wainger
"It’s winter-spring. A blue, sunny chill. Sleep and hyacinth. Today I met with a friend with whom I have an ongoing creative..."


Cynthia Cruz
"The space between waking and dreaming presents a brief opening of possibility and is the same space we enter and move through in..."


Stay in the Silence: A Conversation with Lara Mimosa Montes
"I first read Lara Mimosa Montes' THRESHOLES while the forest around me burned. Obscured by fire and smoke, I imagined the landscape..."


"Intimacies, Received" by Taneum Bambrick
"parses the language and acts of love and sex, trauma and violence, with the stark, plainspoken language of a desert, seared..."


Field Notes
Fields Delmar | NONFICTION | "As a family physician and obstetrician, I tend to people and their families. My clinic day usually includes.."


My Sister's Foot is Haunted
Stephanie Macias | GRASP | "SHE WEARS A red sock to keep it quiet..."


A Guidebook, This Pen
Sasha Hom | AWARD FOR HYBRID WRITING | "No . . . We don’t know . . . These meetings? . . . Yes, I know . . . Every Wednesday . . ."


The Woman Who Fell Out the Window
Marianne Chan | ESSAY | "IMMIGRATION STORIES ARE origin stories and, like many origin stories, ours begins with a fall..."


Three Poems by Despy Boutris
Despy Boutris | POETRY | "I’m not asking for much. Only everything: to sprawl in every open field, to never age, to always be the most..."


Afterimages
Ariel Chu | APERTURE | "The day we meet, we bond over our broken hearts. Walking around the man-made marsh..."


Where You Want To Be
Fullamusu Bangura | NONFICTION | "ON MY LAST trip home to DC, I sorted through what was left of my childhood belongings..."


I am Cleopatra
Julie Moon | DIARY | "MY NAME IS Cleopatra. If someone orders me killed, they might do it for the soil..."
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