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Special Feature: “Mrs. Williams [Or, A Study of Postmodernism and the Many Ways That Walls Are Broken]” by Julie Marie Wade
Web exclusive: Julie Marie Wade’s essay on a childhood friend’s family and the ways they surprised her.
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From Our Contributors: A Playlist to Accompany “The Forager’s Guide,” by Rebecca Griswold
Rebecca Griswold shares a playlist to accompany her poem in issue 21.1, “The Forager’s Guide.”
Special Feature: “My Great Hunger” by Stephanie Early Green
An essay on the intergenerational experience of eating and hunger issues, with photographs.
Writers’ Day Jobs: Karen Maner
Writer Karen Maner, a membership services manager at a nonprofit.
Special Feature: Christine Hale on Kevin McIlvoy’s “Gemels”
Contributor Christine Hale looks closely at grief and creativity by way of “Gemels,” a poem by her late husband, Kevin McIlvoy.
A Literary Pesto Recipe to Kick Off Your Spring
Ravi Mangla shares an unusual recipe for pesto.
On Being Envious of Able-Bodied Writers from the Global North
Mugabi Byenkya writes about envying writers who can submit to publications and opportunities he cannot.
I was envious of Anna Akhmatova. So I translated her poems, sort of.
Noah Berlatsky on envying other poets and also their translators, with an eye on the Jewish diaspora.
Sympathy for the Devil: Garnering Sympathy for Your Envious Villains
A craft essay by J. D. Harlock on well-designed, complex villains in fiction.
Sitting Tight While Others Celebrate: Navigating Envy While on Submission
Colleen Rothman describes feeling envy of other novelists with her short-story collection out on submission to editors.