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Issue 14 is here!
Step off the trail, let yourself be buffeted by the wind and the rain, the fire and earth, the grief and fury and bravery of these contributors. Plus there’s a word search 🙂
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To start: Talk about RANGE! @DyaniSabin’s got a book coming out, Music Information Literacy, on advocacy and inclusion in music libraries. AND a stunner of a modern take on sleeping beauty in @SmallwonderSFF that you can read here: https://t.co/Ub3DYh3cHR
We're sending love to our EIC @MaureenLangloss today. She wrote a beautiful essay about loss and love in her latest blog. Grab your favorite comfort item and have a read: https://t.co/jOFLQCz3ds
"it is as if we’re reminded
by the vastness of the ocean
how frail and powerless we are"
An oceanside stunner by Felix Grygorcewicz
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"savoring every birdsong
as if it is my last"
@DyaniSabin's "To the house wren that sang on my patio" in Issue 11 won't take long to read, but it'll lodge itself in your heart
"we found better anthems, holier idols, but we never forgot where we started, in that middle-of-a-cow-pasture school"
The things that make you and get outgrown and the things that it's impossible to leave behind. Damn, this one's real good.
Read "bitches be crazy, ain’t no thing as a free lunch, the man is out to get you" written by @lumchanmfa and illustrated by @KaylanStedman. https://t.co/5phaNkeuA3
Thank you so much to @EmergeJournal and @DianeGotAuthor for publishing this piece about my chronic illness which is part of a wider essay I posted on my website earlier this year:
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Hi loves, if you are able, it would mean the world to me if you would preorder my book. The world is tough for authors and small presses right now—your support is vital and deeply appreciated. ❤️
Are y'all still playing Connections? Did you know you can make a custom one that, for example, encapsulates the most recent issue by pulling words and themes from each piece? Well have I got good news for you!
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I don’t want to have been beautiful
only when in a hospital gown – or in memoriam.
—this poem, y'all 💔. Some humor and heartbreak by Patrick Schiefen in 24Q2