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How to Live in a Single

“5. Spot your ex-roommates on campus. Remember their erratic sleep patterns, what they looked like in the mornings. The sounds of their alarms. They’ll ask, how’s the single? You say, great…”

by Jimin Kang on October 6, 2018October 6, 2018

Cinema

‘This feels like a movie,’ I said./’Yeah?’ you laughed./You never understood/your role.

by Carley Stamps on October 6, 2018October 7, 2018

Space

“I’m looking/I’m looking/for a love of space/And for that space to love me”

by Majida Halaweh on July 30, 2018July 29, 2018

Love According to Gabriel García Márquez

“Love is a breath, and a surprise, and the common space between two solitudes, and two bodies.”

by Serena Alagappan on May 5, 2018May 5, 2018

Reflections from the Backlog —

“There’s always summer to/think/realize/laze./There’s always summer/and the year after that/and the year after that/and the year after that/and the rest of our lives.”

by Faith Emba on May 5, 2018May 5, 2018

Le Syndrome de Paris

“I look out my bedroom window and admire Sacré-Cœur. The clouds inch past, the sky pales, then blushes, and before I know it the Eiffel Tower is alight, flashing like a jolly giant steel Christmas phallus. Every hour on the hour.”

by Michael Milam on April 29, 2018April 28, 2018

Martinus Young, I had a crush on you when I was five.

“A quotidian damage. Consolidating into a tiny scar; a crescent moon./Now, that’s the only trace I have left of you, Martinus Young.”

by Mariachiara Ficarelli on April 29, 2018April 29, 2018

Latter Genesis

“I don’t make that the answer, because, though mine a fraction of yours,/belief still blossoms when it isn’t too cold.”

by Tess Solomon on April 29, 2018April 28, 2018

Review: DJ Ezra Klein Chopped Not Slopped Indie-Hits Compilation (Best New Music)

“The EP offers a respite from the world. If only for a moment.”

by Max McGougan on April 28, 2018April 29, 2018

LEGS.

“Green grass./Blue skies./A faint haze distorting the figures”

by Faith Emba on April 21, 2018April 21, 2018

incandescence / fluorescence

“She had written,/I can feel the little vibrations of the bus up and down.
/A silent fleshy hum, a reminder of discontent and inadequacy.”

by Olivia Grah on April 14, 2018April 15, 2018

Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Firestone Library Princeton, NJ

“When Women Look at Men / 8 Million Women Want / Women’s Rights”

by Nicolette D’Angelo on April 7, 2018April 8, 2018


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