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w/ Erin Evans
[Giles] feels like she is the bridge: stuck, supporting everyone else in her life, carrying a weight she can’t quite pinpoint.
Life Span – Molly Giles
[Giles] feels like she is the bridge: stuck, supporting everyone else in her life, carrying a weight she can’t quite pinpoint.
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by Michael Zendejas
It is normal to mourn a dying planet, it is common to feel isolated and embittered in this new era, but the true loss would be to accept such disaffection, to not fight for a better tomorrow.
Cigarettes Until Tomorrow: Romanian Poetry
It is normal to mourn a dying planet, it is common to feel isolated and embittered in this new era, but the true loss would be to accept such disaffection, to not fight for a better tomorrow.
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by Kelly M.S. Swope
The Black yard show is in dialogue with the Middle American landscape; the padlocked garden and the pockmarked prairie blur each other’s boundaries.
Yard Show – Janice N. Harrington
The Black yard show is in dialogue with the Middle American landscape; the padlocked garden and the pockmarked prairie blur each other’s boundaries.
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w/ Leah Binns
Maybe for the reader, the book itself is like a substitute for a crime, or a certain kind of violence which might otherwise have been turned on the world somehow.
Mark Bowles
Maybe for the reader, the book itself is like a substitute for a crime, or a certain kind of violence which might otherwise have been turned on the world somehow.
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by Michael Zendejas
It is normal to mourn a dying planet, it is common to feel isolated and embittered in this new era, but the true loss would be to accept such disaffection, to not fight for a better tomorrow.
Cigarettes Until Tomorrow: Romanian Poetry
It is normal to mourn a dying planet, it is common to feel isolated and embittered in this new era, but the true loss would be to accept such disaffection, to not fight for a better tomorrow.
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by Kelly M.S. Swope
The Black yard show is in dialogue with the Middle American landscape; the padlocked garden and the pockmarked prairie blur each other’s boundaries.
Yard Show – Janice N. Harrington
The Black yard show is in dialogue with the Middle American landscape; the padlocked garden and the pockmarked prairie blur each other’s boundaries.
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by Simon Lowe
Characters, like Lim’s stylistic choices, shift and transform . . . The novel suggests identity is a beguiling, perhaps not even achievable thing: just mirror, marriage, and mirage.
Fog and Car – Eugene Lim
Characters, like Lim’s stylistic choices, shift and transform . . . The novel suggests identity is a beguiling, perhaps not even achievable thing: just mirror, marriage, and mirage.
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by Anna Zumbahlen
Mahato’s poetic attention interacts with ideas and observations about community and climate, and the spaces in her language are literally filled in with color.
Arctic Play – Mita Mahato
Mahato’s poetic attention interacts with ideas and observations about community and climate, and the spaces in her language are literally filled in with color.
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w/ Erin Evans
[Giles] feels like she is the bridge: stuck, supporting everyone else in her life, carrying a weight she can’t quite pinpoint.
Life Span – Molly Giles
[Giles] feels like she is the bridge: stuck, supporting everyone else in her life, carrying a weight she can’t quite pinpoint.
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w/ Leah Binns
Maybe for the reader, the book itself is like a substitute for a crime, or a certain kind of violence which might otherwise have been turned on the world somehow.
Mark Bowles
Maybe for the reader, the book itself is like a substitute for a crime, or a certain kind of violence which might otherwise have been turned on the world somehow.
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w/ Stephanie Yue Duhem
Whenever I see that “ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to be on the computer a lot” meme, I’m like, lol, yes, I truly did.
Kristen Felicetti
Whenever I see that “ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to be on the computer a lot” meme, I’m like, lol, yes, I truly did.
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w/ Eric Bies
The situation seemed ripe for mining a precious metal known as “poignancy,” the urgency of the [writers’] strong desires to fulfill their ambitions and the wrenching back of that desire in the form of rejection.
Lee Klein
The situation seemed ripe for mining a precious metal known as “poignancy,” the urgency of the [writers’] strong desires to fulfill their ambitions and the wrenching back of that desire in the form of rejection.
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by Thaddeus Squire
In the end, a long-term structural operating deficit killed UArts, not a capital fundraising shell game or evil provost.
The Folly of Philanthropy: On the Demise of UArts
In the end, a long-term structural operating deficit killed UArts, not a capital fundraising shell game or evil provost.
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by Ali Nahdee
Blending a cultural story and creating something new with it can be good or bad, depending on who’s telling the story and who’s in charge of the narrative.
The Native American Horror Story (video essay)
Blending a cultural story and creating something new with it can be good or bad, depending on who’s telling the story and who’s in charge of the narrative.
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by Hana Pera Aoake
Failure doesn’t . . . mean we have lost or that we can’t live in a world where Palestine is free, where the Congo is free, where Hawai’i is free, where West Papua is free, and where Western Sahara is free. . . . Everything is broken, but it doesn’t mean that the horror our ancestors experienced or that we continue to bear witness to cannot be healed.
Rangi is my ancestor, your ancestor is money . . .
Failure doesn’t . . . mean we have lost or that we can’t live in a world where Palestine is free, where the Congo is free, where Hawai’i is free, where West Papua is free, and where Western Sahara is free. . . . Everything is broken, but it doesn’t mean that the horror our ancestors experienced or that we continue to bear witness to cannot be healed.
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by Tanisha Tekriwal
I remembered almost nothing of the narrators apart from their existence. They existed for me as wallpaper . . . Still, when a friend said the same to me, I became defensive. I was convinced that Ginzburg’s was neither an artless nor an arbitrary choice, but one of subtler and more complicated mechanics . . .
Your Favorite Writer’s Favorite Writer: On Natalia Ginzburg’s Valentino & Sagittarius
I remembered almost nothing of the narrators apart from their existence. They existed for me as wallpaper . . . Still, when a friend said the same to me, I became defensive. I was convinced that Ginzburg’s was neither an artless nor an arbitrary choice, but one of subtler and more complicated mechanics . . .
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by The Editors
Full Stop invites applications for two Full Stop Editorial Fellows. These six-month fellowships invite early career writers or editors to independently envision, commission, and edit an issue of the Full Stop Quarterly.
Call for Applications: 2024 Full Stop Editorial Fellows
Full Stop invites applications for two Full Stop Editorial Fellows. These six-month fellowships invite early career writers or editors to independently envision, commission, and edit an issue of the Full Stop Quarterly.
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by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Lately I’ve stopped looking at my father; his body is just another part of the room now, like the bed, the chair, and the window onto the maternity ward.
No One Knows Their Blood Type (Excerpt)
Lately I’ve stopped looking at my father; his body is just another part of the room now, like the bed, the chair, and the window onto the maternity ward.
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by Michael Schapira
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. We used to invoke the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think,” but having recently moved to Scotland I’ll invoke the immortal and precise words of Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Inglan is a bitch, […]
20 4 420: Irie Edition
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. We used to invoke the immortal and ominous words of Prince Buster, “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think,” but having recently moved to Scotland I’ll invoke the immortal and precise words of Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Inglan is a bitch, […]
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by The Editors
Full Stop stands proudly in solidarity with the people of occupied Palestine in committing to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) guidelines.
Full Stop and PACBI
Full Stop stands proudly in solidarity with the people of occupied Palestine in committing to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) guidelines.