...Darren Donate © 2020 Darren Donate 2020 Darren Donate All Boys with Cut Tongues share a mouth a broken jaw the part in the story when someone said: let s make a man out of the boy. some boys make it difficult. hold still they say. no one ever wants to get their tongue plucked but why didn...

... “free” transaction of labor-time for a wage. There are any number of paths to super-exploitation, including various forms of forced, conscripted, or partly-conscripted labor. Versions of forced donation of labor still exist globally, in China, South America, Africa, and India...

... of organ donation and calls us the Vulture Squad. When I first met her, she gathered herself up and said, I m going into the earth the way the Lord brought me in. Intact. I said nothing. What I wanted to say was, Unless you re cremated, your inter- nal organs will be removed by the mortician and placed...

...Rage Hezekiah © 2016 Rage Hezekiah 2016 Rage Hezekiah My First Job Eight years old, in a well-worn soccer uniform, I wrapped an empty coffee can with bright paper, stood outside the corner store, asking for donations. Kind neighbors, unknowing...

... as we walked. The breeze whistled through my legs. Being stranded and pant-less and bloody was the cherry on top of a sundae we didn t order. We found a church with a clothing donation bin and she knocked on the door. A woman ushered her in and I waited for an hour wondering what was taking so long...

... of knowing exactly what to get my father for Christmas or for his birthday. If it might manage to make him a little safer at night when he gets called out of the sta- tion on a run, he’ll cherish the gift and he’ll donate the old equipment to whoever shows the most interest in it. The twelve-cup...

... at the University of Illinois. Her poems have appeared in Passages North and Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts. 121 minnesota review 95 (2020) DOI 10.1215/00265667-8623784 © 2020 Virginia Tech 122 the minnesota review Darren Donate is teaching assistant and MFA candidate at the Uni- versity of New Mexico. He...

..., and wealthy woman owned the human pheromone company. I got connected to her by my academic advisor at college. I was looking for a summer job and this woman had donated loads of money to the psychology department. We communicated over sporadic phone calls and a few in-person encounters at her home, a large...

... leadership, before it was fully integrated into the University system. When Weber specifies that “the followers share in the use of those goods which the authoritarian leader receives as donation, booty or endowment and which he distributes among them without accounting...

... that grad students are merely “representing” themselves in these instances obscures our labor and teaches that we must donate a steady stream of uncompensated hours in exchange for the right to work or to have a say in determining our working conditions. It’s also a symptom...

..., he shrugged off criticism by explaining he donated the money to the Naropa Institute. By this time, the dependence of dissent on corporate money and media had come to seem unavoidable, and this is where we remain today. Yet, there is a way in which “Howl...

... interested, in keeping with the ideal of forming a non-cadre mass movement. The school never planned to be accredited, give degrees, or pay wages; it was supported by donated labor, a significant percentage of which was non-NAM in orientation. According to NAM archives, the school had its own...

..., community volunteers donated their time offering classes. I enrolled in a creative writing course. I studied dialogue and character de­ velopment. I learned image and voice. I practiced editing and re­ vision as I wrote short stories. With a little coaxing, I entered writing...

... publicized example is Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Founda- tion (MIR), in which private donations, seeded by an initial $5 million contribution by Pitt himself, have sponsored and subsidized the con- struction of high-design replacement houses for inhabitants of the dev- astated Lower Ninth Ward, designed...

... Community College, a private foundation, and Attica Correctional Facility to bring college courses back into the site of the 1971 uprising. Funding for books and supplies is needed. Please help the men inside Attica by sending your tax-deductible donation to: The GCC Foundation One College...

... of stray dogs, and it began to rely on license fees and donations from wealthy New Yorkers for funding. With correspondingly deplorable conditions for stray dogs and poverty-stricken people, animal protection groups and organized efforts to help the human poor arose at the same time...

... plates were melted down and donated to the war effort. At the time of his death in 1970, virtually all of Endore’s literary work was out of print. Almost forty years later things do not stand much improved, with the single exception of a reprint of Babouk by Monthly Review...

... and received a big grant for it and involved the New Haven middle and high schools from the very beginning. I managed to get publishers to donate multiple copies of Langston Hughes’ work to all the New Haven schools, and had events that involved not just...

... in the globally infertile dystopia of Children of Men —​or, alternately, the depiction of the clone “carer” Kathy H. in Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go, who cares for sterilized human clones like herself, all required to ultimately die in donating their organs for the good of uncloned...