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Victor, by Ainsley Atwood
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  • Jul 19, 2021
  • 1 min

Victor, by Ainsley Atwood

This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Tides Rise, by Kelsey Flynn
805lit
  • Jul 14, 2021
  • 2 min

Tides Rise, by Kelsey Flynn

Tides rise and walls fall A system built to keep muddy water from collapsing white walls Infrastructure made to keep fish in their barrel...
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Sestina of Moscow, 1812, by Emilia Kelly
805lit
  • Jul 13, 2021
  • 2 min

Sestina of Moscow, 1812, by Emilia Kelly

This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Fight Scene, by Jessica Sabo
805lit
  • Jun 23, 2021
  • 1 min

Fight Scene, by Jessica Sabo

Baby ballerinas skipped to Tchaikovsky, fine threads of hair crowning their heads and my hair, so tightly pulled into a knot my forehead...
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Swamp Monster, by Emily Rozitis
805lit
  • Jun 16, 2021
  • 1 min

Swamp Monster, by Emily Rozitis

At the very bottom of my bathtub, there is a space for the darkness. It exists for the dark ...
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Delta Means Change, by Lisa Lundeen
805lit
  • May 26, 2021
  • 1 min

Delta Means Change, by Lisa Lundeen

What is the landscape of my life these days? Mudflat sounds about right—the mud part and the flat part, messy, shoe-sucking,...
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Collisions, by Ben Kassoy
805lit
  • May 12, 2021
  • 3 min

Collisions, by Ben Kassoy

I spent so many days wandering the wreckage and possibility of the space between the buildings and reverberating from the shock of you,...
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Bruised Mother, by Ashley Kirkland
805lit
  • Apr 21, 2021
  • 1 min

Bruised Mother, by Ashley Kirkland

topless in the grey light of the master bath, accompanied by store-bought seashells and soaps, a painting of dune grass, remember how we...
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Asian American Translations, by Molly Zhu
805lit
  • Apr 14, 2021
  • 2 min

Asian American Translations, by Molly Zhu

I only know Power from the other side of my mother’s eyes when she asks me, what does it mean, my only job is to dress the slur in...
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Leave me, by Zainab Batool
805lit
  • Mar 15, 2021
  • 2 min

Leave me, by Zainab Batool

If your pain could speak to you, it would say "leave me" You've been taking me all along Carrying the ache in your hands. Halt your steps...
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I am Fermenting, by Ellen Gwin
805lit
  • Mar 10, 2021
  • 2 min

I am Fermenting, by Ellen Gwin

In my bitter sixteens I tasted like sweet, succulent blackberries. As dark as I presented myself, my skin oozed red sap onto anyone with...
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Boy Lazarus, by Taylor Leigh Harper
805lit
  • Feb 3, 2021
  • 2 min

Boy Lazarus, by Taylor Leigh Harper

Tell me who raised you again, dusted dirt off your saffron-soured bones? After your resurrection, you smelled of peat moss, dirty socks,...
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We Shredded Books on the Library Floor, by Neil Kennedy
805lit
  • Dec 30, 2020
  • 1 min

We Shredded Books on the Library Floor, by Neil Kennedy

We shredded books on the library floor. I felt like committing an awful sin. I wanted something I couldn’t ask for and tore the...
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Approximations, by Tania Mitra
805lit
  • Dec 16, 2020
  • 1 min

Approximations, by Tania Mitra

Flustered, I call my mother— “Ma, how many spoons of Ginger-Garlic paste do I put?” First, I spent 19 years longing To leave home, and...
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Two Works: Collage Poetry + Graphic Lit
805lit
  • Nov 18, 2020
  • 1 min

Two Works: Collage Poetry + Graphic Lit

Psalm With Passing Train, by Despy Boutris Hair, by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland Despy Boutris is published or forthcoming in American...
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Dwojak (The Polish Word for Twin), by Brooke Lehmann
805lit
  • Nov 10, 2020
  • 2 min

Dwojak (The Polish Word for Twin), by Brooke Lehmann

I catalog beauty, collect it like stones in a river gathered together, letting the rush of water smooth their course edges. I hope the...
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