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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Special Feature: “Due Water” by Ginger Ko
Ginger Ko complicates what it can mean to say “Me too” in an essay about familial abuse.
What We’re Reading: Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment by Alessandra Lynch
Editorial Assistant Cara Dees: Alessandra Lynch’s third poetry collection, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (Alice James Books, 2017), navigates the trauma of surviving rape, the insatiability and pervasive cruelty of rape culture, and the speaker’s search for a voice as she insists on her own survival and story, to “nearly convinc[e] myself recursiveness / …