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A Fairy Tale As Lush As the Yucatán
By Ren Martinez
There are places that spill magic into the world, and the people who live there, breathing it in, inevitably become magic, too. Cenote City (CLASH Books) by Monique Quintana is a story about such a place and such a people. Rich in cultural heritage and simmering with colorful imagery, Cenote City is poetry-turned-prose, exploring the realities of poverty, grief, and oppression within the colorful spinnings of a fairy tale, too beautiful and sharp not to be true.
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Governor Calls Bipartisan Effort to Clean Coal Ash ‘Historic’ By Kathleen Shaw Capital News Service RICHMOND, Virginia -- Virginians could see an additional $5 charge on their power bills after Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox and a bipartisan group of legislators announced an agreement Thursday to clean up large ponds of toxic coal ash throughout the state.
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The Fat Feminist Poetry Book You'll Never Forget
By Ghia Vitale
Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley might be the most electrifying feminist poetry book I’ve ever read. Rachel Wiley is a fat activist/body positive activist, performer, and poet from Columbus, Ohio. This poetry reflects on her thoughts and experiences related to being biracial, fat, and queer. I was happy to find that reading her poetry is as exhilarating as I imagine her spoken word performances are.
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Panel Wants Prisons to Modify Tampon Ban RICHMOND, Virginia — The Virginia Department of Corrections would have to modify its official but unenforced policy of barring women from wearing feminine hygiene products when they visit a state prison, under a bill approved Friday by a House committee.
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Honest Chapbooks Outta PhillyBy The Editors Robyn Campbell was the first to have faith in founder Christine Sloan Stoddard's chapbook Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares. The chapbook was the budding section of Stoddard's full collection Water for the Cactus Woman (Spuyten Duvil, 2018), recently highlighted in the Poetry Foundation's news section. We wanted to give back to the press that played a significant part of the collection's journey.
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HuffPost Opinion Announces Shutdown, Layoffs
By The Editors
In a surprising and devastating blow early this morning, the famed HuffPost Opinion section abruptly announced its shutdown and layoffs of all of its staff. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
A Lifetime of StorytellingBy The Editors We like to look within our pool of regular contributors and give them a chance to tell their story, too. We chatted with our very own staff writer Leah Mueller about her writing process, ageism in the writing community, as well as what drove her to commit to writing past society's limits.
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Celebrity Chef José Andrés' Social Media Movement
By Sanchali Singh
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chef José Andrés stood outside of the Pennsylvania Avenue World Central Kitchen location for hours Wednesday, welcoming furloughed federal employees into the cafe to get food and supplies to help feed them and their families.
World Central Kitchen, a registered non-profit organization, does more than just hand out hot meals. Partnering with organizations like Martha’s Table, Verizon and Pepco, the resource center provides federal workers in need with fresh produce, diapers, pet food and bill payment consultations. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Quit yer MFA angst!By The Editors The deadline for the MFA Creative Writing programs with the latest admissions deadlines is February 1st. OK, fine, you'll see a handful that accept applications as late as March 1st or 15th, but they're rare birds. We are firmly in freak-out season for MFA Creative Writing hopefuls. According to a 2017 LitHub article (more like a poem by the numbers), an average of 20,000 (!!!) MFA Creative Writing applications are submitted each season. Many of the writers who get accepted and end up enrolling are not straight out of college either. The average age of a full-time MFA student is 27.3 years old. But as LitHub Amy Brady demonstrates with her cheekily culled statistics, you don't need to have an MFA in Creative Writing to get your books published. Read "MFA By The Numbers, On the Eve of AWP" here (especially if you're thinking of going to AWP 2019 in Portland, Oregon, like our friends at CLASH Books.)
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A Self-Care Mantra for Writers
By Luna Lark
I am worth more than that essay due tomorrow. Or that poem that literary magazines keep rejecting. Or that chapbook of mine that no press seems to want (at least not enough because the rejection letters are so achingly kind.) I am worth more than the marketing plan I still have to write for a client who has forgotten that I am human. I am worth more than the social media strategy I submitted yesterday that a client has not yet approved. I am worth more than the package of blog posts a client approved but has not yet paid me for. I am worth more than every letter, every word, every paragraph, every page that I write because I long to write and then those that I write because I must survive.
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