Doomscrolling the Avenue 
Ren Ebel
I’m standing at the entrance of the Square des Missions-Étrangères, facing the bust of Chateaubriand. Michèle Bernstein, in a 1955 issue of Potlatch, once compared the statue to the god Terminus, protector of boundaries...

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Ars Poetica of a Survivor Story
London Pinkney
There is no good way to begin a story about abuse. It always feels like a disruption...

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Beadle County, SD
James Jesser
Yesterday, winter arrived again...

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Apache, OK
Jordan T. Satepauhoodle
I wonder what we used to call Mount Scott back in the day. Something tells me it was Grandpa...

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for Charlie Daniels
James Jensen
Charles Edward Daniels was a country music icon best known for his song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” a crossover hit celebrated by both rock and country fans...

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for Etel Adnan
Lou Dillon
“A letter to a poet is necessarily to be a love letter. And if one has to speak of poetry one is walking by the edge of the sea. Or on a rope. On unstable grounds. So we are going to deal, from the start, with feelings and uncertainties.”

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Note to the Reader
Colin Beveridge
After my brother called me for the umpteenth time with doubts surrounding his literary vocation and we talked and talked and talked...

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