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Garth Greenwell on shame, small acts of love, and the patch of snow inside us.
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A new biography of Audre Lorde is as much the story of a symbiotic world as an account of a single life.
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After Fifty Years
By William Faulkner
Her house is empty and her heart is old,
And filled with shades and echoes that deceive
No one save her, for still she tries to weave...
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Brenda Cárdenas
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Brenda Cárdenas (she/her) is the author of Trace (Red Hen Press, 2023), winner of the 2024 Society of.... Read More
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Our Lady of SorrowsBy Brenda Cárdenas
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The first half of a 2008 reading featuring four Latino poets, as part of the American Perspectives series at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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