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A Fistful of Dollars

July 29, 2020 |Carlos Lechuga

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Mni Wiconi / Water Is Life: Photographer John Willis Honors the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Their Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty

July 29, 2020 |Skuya Zephier

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Ode to Kale

July 22, 2020 |Hope Wabuke

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My Father’s Sawmill

July 20, 2020 |Feroz Rather

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The Winners

July 17, 2020 |Erica X Eisen

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A Memory of Us

July 15, 2020 |Safia Elhillo

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WLT Student Translation Prize – Prose

July 08, 2020 |

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Seeing

July 08, 2020 |

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WLT Student Translation Prize – Poetry

July 07, 2020 |

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Pandemic Dispatches

And Make It Last, and Give It Space

July 06, 2020 |

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Walking The Back Roads to March: To Love the Game

July 02, 2020 |

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Poems of Recollection: Kimberly Blaeser’s Copper Yearning

June 30, 2020 |

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Viscera

June 29, 2020 |

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Pandemic Dispatches

Shelter-in-Place: Forty-Eight Fragments, Episodes, Anecdotes, Fodders, and Vignettes

June 24, 2020 |

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Before the Riot

June 24, 2020 |

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Black Voices: A Series Introduction

June 24, 2020 |

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