Duende Literary

A national online literary journal run by students of the BFA Creative Writing program @ Goddard College
// Issue 7 is now LIVE! #SharetheDuende

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It's official! We are currently open for submissions for the Ritual Issue. We will only remain open for the month of June, so don't wait. Send us your best work today. For details about what kind of work we are looking for to fit the Ritual theme, see o... https://t.co/nRnzohsQkW

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Emerson Whitney doesn't shy away from the messy realities of life! Check out Managing Editor Isobel Ikard's review of "Heaven," Whitney's powerful new memoir.

#Memoir #Bookreview https://t.co/ehdKIsRWHo

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It seems like everyone's talking Ottessa Moshfegh. Guess what?! We are too! Check out Duende editor Sarah Mason's excellent new review of "Death in Her Hands." https://t.co/DVoT1a53AV

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"In the horchata of the moon, the pauses cocoon
in floating parenthesis. The mirror is a female diluted
in the sea of amazement."

See more of this beautiful translation of Ivonne Gordon Carrera Andrade, translated by Cindy Rinne, in our August Monthly ... https://t.co/ozZ5jZcKd8

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"perfect like

the wind ballooning
our dresses that time we
twirled to salsa
in the downpour,
gyrated to reggae
in the dark..."

In case you missed it (and you really shouldn't have!), we point you to this sensual poem by Wandeka Gayle, first published ... https://t.co/NtAbIaQocT

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"As a nation, as a new global society we must all come together to eradicate racism in all of its forms from our communities." Duende Editor, William Chappell, reviews The Assassination of Fred Hampton in our latest book review! https://t.co/wjVd6aCdt7

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"Here, w/ them, is where I learn of appetite–—
to savor the innocent, crave for the dead. They teach me
to bite life's head off, eat my desires raw, let the spine
of a slow creature prick down & relish it." -@ThreaWrites

-from "Feast, Beginning With A...
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"1) Word is, appropriate, like appropriation but not quite. As in suitable for handcuffs on the wrists like leaf blowers on backs. As in you not knowing the differences between our black, red, and pink skins" - Dimitri Reyes

-from "Habichuelology." https://t.co/ORdBW23bER

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"Thinking of the steamy food warmed me a little as we marched resolutely up the stairs. With a golf ball in her gloved hand, Sister Iwasa rapped on the door. It had grown dark and frigid." - Danya Patterson

-from "Jean and Jean." https://t.co/hLwGphqfjX

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"My carpaccio caboodle cannoli man,I am approaching the last cucina, please—
not alone in the cocina.Beyond the loggia, I watch
rain not fall, I watch fall not rain, often—I am the expectation of gravitas,
a tub gelato, a deep spoon." - Tara Mesalik Mac...
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"The bread of the Chilean:
of the campesino growing fruit,
of miners in the arid North
and fishermen in the windy South,
of nanas taking care of children,
trusty maestros fixing everything
from faucets, to walls, to lights;" - Adina Cassal https://t.co/gsIdWb77YI

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"The officials scrutinized the fifty-year-old woman who stood before them, alone. She looked like an omaatje in her shawl. She needed their permission to sail across the world. Her intention was to study insects with a paintbrush." -@JesiBender

-from ... https://t.co/vs7HIq5kCF

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"I drive to work with a mango pit between my teeth like a blade.
I am nectar-stained panic: mammal, animal.
Red light. They will come for us. Green light. This is promised." -@kimsoandso

Read more in our Food Issue! https://t.co/dYzYdMDjDZ

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Last day to submit! We're very excited to see how writers will respond to the theme of Ritual and share in the collective ritual of making. https://t.co/nRnzohsQkW

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Just one more day to submit to our Ritual Issue! We're looking to curate a space for dialogues around the changing rituals of our moment. Please share widely! #submit #ritual #duendeliterary https://t.co/nRnzohsQkW

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"It's easy to put together words if they're only words, but when they try to encompass even the sidewalk, they falter." - Aharon Levy

-from "The Winter Feast." Read more in our Food Issue! (Art by Diane Parker)
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"they say every rice-grain left in the bowl is a pockmark on the face
of the person you'll marry, so i leave enough to let the chopsticks
stand upright & wonder how deep you have to bury an explosion
so no one aboveground feels a thing" - @flowercryptid https://t.co/8IN6sIuvuI

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"I harvest a bowl of butta beans

a handful of plums
bunches of collard greens
Aint Shirley & Joyce rinse
the soil from the leaves

grandma boils the ham hocks
til a tender juicy hymn..." -@RodrickMinor

-from "Ode to the Golden Girls Before Sunday Service."

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"In that moment, she seemed more powerful and fierce than ever. But I worried: what if she thought she was stronger than she really was? What if her arms broke from holding me?" - Caitlin Killion

-from "Palitos." Read more in our newest Food Issue! https://t.co/Z8PusOqjxc

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come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.

—Lucille Clifton, born #otd in 1936

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One way to make our current literary landscape more inclusive is to keep submissions FREE, or at the least, to offer submitters a free option to submit. At Duende, submissions have always been free. Submit by July 1 to our Ritual Issue! https://t.co/nRnzohsQkW