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... of migritude,” as Lila Azam Zanganeh notably called her. Moving from the rich exegeses of the liminal, haunted, frequently abjected, migritude conditions of her fictional—and often autobiographical—heroines, Diome has now arrived inside the Hexagon, where her words harmonize with a sizable chorus of interior...

... and intellectual protocols. The academic humanist Left's promotion of theory, for instance, facilitated the formation of the “university” as a theater for culture war conflicts, shifting attention inside and outside the academy away from underlying changes in capitalism. Works Cited Behrent Michael C...

... cowl upon your back. Somewhere between a roar and a cackle and a husk. Throw that head back and splinter your husk. Inside is a seed bomb. Each single orange frequency a rusty shard to penetrate. Your vocal sunset slowly smears its stains across the sky inside my insides. How did your glottal...

...Helen Palmer © 2017 Helen Palmer 2017 Helen Palmer Jellyfish half-moon rings that meet but at low tide while half-bubble and shoot you when your skin submerged invert through the meets the your inside is deep outside’s...

... there, and for containing the smell of rot in the body politic. Exactly how the state intervenes so destructively in the lives of a section of its own people is thus difficult to document. Stone walls and razor wire are nearly as hard to broach from the outside as from inside. And how much do we really want...

...Benjamin S. Grossberg © 2020 Benjamin S. Grossberg 2020 Benjamin S. Grossberg Before I Say She Is Dead, She Is Dead But the knowledge is inside me like a hummingbird in my mouth, buzzing there, its bright beating against the inside of my cheeks, on my tongue, the long, scraping needle of its...

... of unknown origin: vicious at the vet s; peed all over the house when anxious; required insulin shots twice a day. I came home for Thanksgiving one year and he bit me on the inside of my left knee, ripping open my jeans and scarring the skin. I went to urgent care and the doctor gave me a booster tetanus...

... . Doran Larson The Prison Industrial Literary Complex In November of 2006 I began teaching a creative writing course inside a maximum-security state prison, which I will call Antioch. As a result of the federal and state dismantling of prison education programs under Bill Clinton...

... in the moment before they lunge. The wind has worn patterns into their skin. They look strange and anx- ious, as though something inside them is waiting to emerge. We edge closer to the glaciers. I know I should keep my eyes forward, but I can’t keep myself from looking up. They loom over me...

...John McCarthy © 2015 John McCarthy 2015 John McCarthy Pickup Truck #5 All the trees in Illinois are frayed nerve endings and it is fifteen degrees. You will hide inside your body until your coat stops shivering. The heater, in this truck, has not worked...

...Jay Udall © 2014 Jay Udall 2014 Jay Udall Jesus Walks in Blue above Louisiana over the jails and prisons we build for our young dark-skinned men, two white gloves reach through a window, finger accordion for the dancing light-skinned crowd inside, inside the gloves...

...Kent Shaw © 2011 Kent Shaw 2011 Kent Shaw Vesuvius, There Are Easier Ways to Make Friends It was an installation of thrushes. Each household had to have corpses of birds. And rags. There was a bounty of thrushes and madras pressing at the windows, from inside, cotton bolls, too, pressed...

..., the outside–the inside, I-other) are falling apart. Grosz demonstrates it by looking into the category of the body with reference to the Möbius strip, which shows the deceptiveness of outside-inside opposition. The 62 the minnesota review body flows, turns inside out and outside in, it is felt...

... with their nanny, Meredith. Won't be back for three days. Your gloves have gone mucky inside from sweat. A sparrow skips across the lawn. The moment you know: the wind lifts suddenly, sparkling the wind chime hung over the porch. The backdoor opens, and Mrs. Peterson steps out of the house, her thighs rigid...

... is beneath the sun, under their bodies, beginning to boil their insides. By noon, they’ll be dead, by the next night, as flat as the beer cans thrown from cars. A girl is out walking the country roads with her wagon. Last night, after the fair, she pulled the wagon up the dirt avenue, filling...

... a top hat from the famous magician and he disappeared. Inside the brim was a place of scarves, knives and a shifting creature. I learned to conjure coiled nightmares, every damn thing I feared. The hat was moist. The hat was warm. The hat became the teacher. Vasto eternal. Vasto huge. Vasto...

... of imagination as not just a creative but also a spiritual force. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Virginia Tech 2023 creativity incarceration poverty restorative justice prison narrative Works Cited Epps Amber . 2019 . Introduction to Life Sentences: Writings from Inside...

... denim. How should I know where your daddy hides his smokes, he said, so the little girl scratched at her pale see-through skin, Y’all boys like fire, I’ll show you fire. She laughed a laugh that was almost a cough. First the cold air inside. Then the brine and shrimp stink, from the tank...

... and listening to the Sox game. I think she’s watching over us, too. It has to be about a million degrees inside that car, but there she is. Bev’s dad won’t have smoke in the house since he says he wants to quit, and what Bev’s dad says goes. He works across the river at the Necco Wafer factory...

...Brett Elizabeth Jenkins © 2015 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins 2015 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Hangover Poem the huzz of the radio this whole place smells like asses inside of a foot inside of my skull just below my epidermis a pricking fuzz shimmies...