2020 October – The Ferrante Project

“I simply decided once and for all… to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety… thanks to this decision, I have gained a space of my own, a space that is free, where I feel active and present.” -Elena Ferrante

Contributors Include: Cathy Linh Che, Angie Cruz, Natalie Díaz, Ru Freeman, Sarah Gambito, Cristina García, Jamey Hatley, Dawn Lundy Martin, Ayana Mathis, Vi khi nao, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Deborah Paredez, Khadijah Queen, Emily Raboteau, Paisley Rekdal, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.

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Self Portrait
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Notes on Writing about Sexual Violence

“What would happen,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser asks in her oft-quoted poem “Käthe Kollwitz,” “if…

Death of a Family

I. When did we become mortal enemies? You campaigned early and hard to be our…

I Follow my Intuition

She unrolls like sharp and gold wire toward decorous flowers. I see the peach unmoving…

The Patient Records

1.It begins in the middle like this: the sun sets quietly in a Brooklyn sky.…

Untitled Excerpt

Innocent stood in the middle of the trailer; the children crowded together in the back.…

Ventriloquist Museum

In the Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, she realizes she is ruined…