Category: Special Features
On Craft: “Ruin Porn” by Maya Jewell Zeller
A craft essay on how writers can best depict rural America without resorting to “poverty porn.”
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Nonfiction Special Feature: “Open Secret” by Debra Spark
A complex essay by Debra Spark in which the story told is someone else’s, a woman who learns about her mother’s past
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Visual Poetry Special Feature: “26 Sept 86” by Brenna Womer
Brenna Womer’s powerful visual erasures of her mother’s letters.
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Fiction Special Feature: “Self-Care,” by Brett Hymel Jr.
Only an elite few stories take up residence in your memory as visceral reading experiences. Brett Hymel Jr.’s “Self-Care” is one such story.
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“Muddying the Gulf: On Families and Secrets” by Sadia Hassan
Sadia Hassan reviews Steven Espada Dawson’s debut poetry collection, Late to the Search Party
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Special Feature: “Eli Plays Along” by Rob Macaisa Colgate
A poem that brings together a spoken monologue, an enactment of the kinds of listening that can happen, and incredible wordplay.
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Special Feature: “A Heartbeat in a Cemetery in Tennessee” by Kimberly Reyes
Our latest special feature, a poem by Kimberly Reyes about natural interdependence, the physicality of intimacy, and cicadas.
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Folio: Family Secrets
In this folio to accompany issue 22.1, five writers explore family secrets.
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“Weaving a Ne(s)t for Our Ghosts” by Jennifer S. Cheng
Jennifer S. Cheng on the complicated craft of writing family secrets.
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“Let Me Whisper in Your Ear: A Craft Essay” by Shara Lessley
Shara Lessley on the craft of writing about family secrets in literary nonfiction
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“On Family History and Fiction” by James Stewart III
Debut novelist James Stewart III on the craft of writing fiction about family secrets
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“Knowledge and Responsibility: A Review of Morgan Talty’s Fire Exit” by Jessica E. Johnson
Jessica E. Johnson reviews Morgan Talty’s novel Fire Exit
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