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  In Conversation with Ray Hsu: A Collaborative discourse Interviewed by Clarise Foster Clarise Foster: Do you think that part of the problem with publishing a collaboration like the Nepotists might be that within writing and publishing circles, there seems to be an understanding of collaboration as two or more people who bring their talents and skills together to create a project. Whereas with a collaborative work like yours, there is an understanding of project as the constraint rather than ...
• monachopsis by Chimwemwe Undi glass separates selves — this her! this Other! an / off-kilter smile pasted on comes quickly undone /   / the ...
• how to (re)cover yourself by Eileen Holowka here’s how: /   / grab a hold and tear / as if through skin / rip / the frills off / get impatient and ...
• i’d say “i’ll be back” but i never intend to leave by Joshua Whitehead when i go out for dinner with my boyfriend / i worry about many things: / about the threat of men / hetero & ...
• Excerpt from Antoinette: An Opera by Ray Hsu and Colin McMahon /   / du Motier: (bowing a bit too low) Your Highness. /   / Louis: Who’s this? /   / Marie: Gilbert ...
• Studying a Note to Self by Hannah Green There is a wound and when no one is looking / I lick it. Salt can be metaphor. / I will make your steak taste ...
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  Review: The Book of Festus by John Wall Barger Reviewed by Michael Prior Web-only content                 Festus, having forgot,           woke, citizen in the City of himself.           Festus was nothing,           was shell, animalcule, glacial drift.           Ages on ages roll’d over Festus.           Festus uncurl’d to ...