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The Florist

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here So many people are inside a rose’s becoming.I speak to those who grow and send it.In the shop, shades of psychotropic green repeat themselvesand I find colorful faces everywhere. A mouthwith the voice of sky asks, Where is your mind right now?I reply, […]

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here So many people are inside a rose’s becoming.I speak to those who grow and send it.In the shop, shades of psychotropic green repeat themselvesand I find colorful faces everywhere. A mouthwith the voice of sky asks, Where is your mind right now?I reply,

The Lonely Voice and the Public Art of Criticism: A Reflection in Fragments

adapted from The Work of the Living: Modernism, the Artist-Critic, and the Public Craft of Criticism When E.M. Forster took to the lectern to deliver the Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, from January to March of 1927, he was a novelist dispirited. Writing and drawing from the deep wells of his youthful experiences had

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adapted from The Work of the Living: Modernism, the Artist-Critic, and the Public Craft of Criticism When E.M. Forster took to the lectern to deliver the Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, from January to March of 1927, he was a novelist dispirited. Writing and drawing from the deep wells of his youthful experiences had

Ditch and Drain

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The melting glaciers begat a flood: a colossal lake high in the mountains, held back only by ice. When it gave way, the lake roared down a river valley, eating resistance and carrying rocks the size of young mammoths. The water crashed through

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here The melting glaciers begat a flood: a colossal lake high in the mountains, held back only by ice. When it gave way, the lake roared down a river valley, eating resistance and carrying rocks the size of young mammoths. The water crashed through

Writing Under Censorship: An Interview with the Pakistani writer Munib Khan

Munib Khan holds an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University. His fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, American Literary Review, The Normal School, Barcelona Review, Southword: New International Writing, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the National Society of Arts and Letters, Key West Literary Seminar, and Vermont Studio Center, among

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Munib Khan holds an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University. His fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, American Literary Review, The Normal School, Barcelona Review, Southword: New International Writing, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the National Society of Arts and Letters, Key West Literary Seminar, and Vermont Studio Center, among

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