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The Problem with the Youth Writing Industry pt. 2

For a considerable spell, I deflected when asked about my favorite poem. Something about proffering Jeff Buckley’s “New Year’s Eve Prayer Poem” as the designated “literary person” in a given room felt oddly paltry; I’d brace, preemptively,...

a month ago
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The Problem with the Youth Writing Industry

Presently, a sort of canon exists for today’s young writers, composed of YoungArts distinctions, Scholastic’s Gold and Silver Keys, and summer intensives at Kenyon and Iowa. Submit to this literary magazine, appear in this anthology, win th...

2 months ago
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Good Soup

“A million times heartbroken, and Dublin keeps on going. You’ve gotta love Dublin for dreaming.”

“So how’s the heart?” / “It’s traveling, Da.”

“Love’s all very well, but in the hands of people, it turns to soup.” / “Are you married, Eamon...

2 months ago
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Commonplace Correspondence V: A Comprehensive Script for Heartbreak

Inspired by Dakota Warren.

★ ACT I, DIAGNOSIS -Start with DENIAL. -Reread the last conversation. Annotate it like a scholar. Find the line where it turned. There is always a line. -Read Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog and notice how adulte...

3 months ago
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Commonplace Correspondence IV: An Instruction Manual for Relishing Mundanity

  1. Sit in a parking lot after the errand is done. Notice how strange it is that this manufactured stillness exists at all—this grey nowhere between places—and that you are in it, briefly, for no reason whatsoever.

  2. Read the acknowledgm...

3 months ago
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