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likeagrapefruit · 7 months

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Couch Potato, Olivia Muenz

#I try to translate the painbody into the textbody anyway #My loved ones are only tools to hand me medicine #shorthand of the sickbody; shorthand of the sickheart #Olivia Muenz #New England Review #chronic pain #chronic illness

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creatediana · 2 years

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“Self Portrait as I” by Ae Hee Lee, published in The New England Review Volume 41, No. 4 (2020)

Ae Hee Lee was born in South Korea and raised in Peru. She received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in the Georgia Review, Southeast Review, Poetry, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, and the Adroit Journal, among others. She is the author of two chapbooks: Bedtime // Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017) and Dear Bear (Platypus Press, 2021).

#influences #ae hee lee #new england review #poetry journal #literary journal #literature #american literature #twenty-first century #decided to use her biography from that issue of ner since i was already typing this directly from the book #i don't do enough influences from modern literary journals. which is weird bc ive worked for two and i try to read them from time to time #i used to subscribe to a handful but. i didn't have time to read them between reading submissions.#ive recently left one of them for a better opportunity doing freelance work. hopefully ill have time to get to the damn issues ive missed #catch up on my reading y'know

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poetrythatilike · 2 years

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Open Water

It does no good to trick and weave and lose the other ghosts, to shove the buried deeper into the sandy loam, the riverine silt, still you come, my faithful one, the sound of a body so persistent in water I cannot tell if it is a wave or you moving through waves. A month before you died you wrote a letter to old friends saying you swam with a pod of dolphins in open water, saying goodbye, but what you told me most about was the eye. That enormous reckoning eye of an unknown fish that passed you during that last–ditch defiant swim. On the shore, you described the fish as nothing you’d seen before, a blue–gray behemoth moving slowly and enduringly through its deep fathomless North Pacific waters. That night, I heard more about that fish and that eye than anything else. I don’t know why it has come to me this morning. Warm rain and landlocked, I don’t deserve the image. But I keep thinking how something saw you, something was bearing witness to you out there in the ocean where you were no one’s mother, and no one’s wife, but you in your original skin, right before you died, you were beheld, and today in my kitchen with you now ten years gone, I was so happy for you.

- Ada Limón

#ada limón #poetry #poet #poem #new england review

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middlebury-college · 8 months

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Rebecca van Laer

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Fiction from NER 44.1 (2023)

#fiction #middlebury #New England Review #literary magazine

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hesbuckcompton-baby · 2 months

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people who don't study history will simply never understand the joy of reading historian beef. there's nothing like it

#when they're reviewing each other's work and they're just SHITTING ON IT????? wonderful #when you can tell the historian HATES whichever historical figure(s) they're writing about? incredible #one thing we must remember is that historians are just academic gossipers xx #what is JSTOR for if not to read the DRAMA #reading an absolutely SCATCHING rebuttal of an article on New England migration and honestly??? having a wonderful time #sometimes the history student just jumps out #history

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home-ward · 8 months

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No one knows how to hurt you if you always play the fool. No one can be truly disappointed in you if they don’t expect any better.

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bookguide · 4 months

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Current status: my jaw is on the floor.

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libraryleopard · 2 months

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Adult nonfiction

Follows journalist Samantha Allen on a cross-country road trip through red states in America to explore queer community and activism, visiting drag shows, rallies, queer bars, and more

Also reflects on her experiences as an ex-Mormon trans woman now married to another woman

#really liked this as a showcase of queer lives and activism #the people she talks to were all interesting and thoughtful so it's not just a road-trip memoir about her own perspective #it was interesting for me to read as someone who was raised in new england and went to college in a very liberal bubble in the midwest #real queer america #2023 reads #YES i'm still trying to review books i read last year haha #samantha allen #nonfiction #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads real queer america #books

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poppletonink · 5 months

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Review: Off Balance - Carl Green In Particular

Following the quintessentially quirky Off Guard, Carl Green has released his final EP of 2023: Off Balance. With a vocal likeness to Paul Heaton, Carl proclaims messages of love, bitterness and anger; a wonderfully eclectic mix of tales. Opening with The Union Hotel, a dreamy vibe creates a feeling of far-off, protected memories. Carl professes the importance of living in the moment as events are occurring, romanticising a relationship and the world of the Union Hotel. Arguably the best track of the whole ensemble is Algorithm and Blues: a critique of social media algorithms and how we are conditioned to feel as a result of the gaze of society. The track as a whole has an electronic and distorted feel to it - as though trapped within a computer screen - just out of reach from the rest of the world. Good Job You Screamed contains fast-paced strings and sparse piano notes which create an unsettling feeling of pressure. Tension builds up throughout the track as Carl describes the anger involved during a break-up, especially with the other person lashing out and victimizing themself. The closing track, Fine Arts Student, discusses the nature of an artist parting ways with the world of art due to society's now normalised standard of what 'art' must be. It questions why we must put 'art' into boxes of good and bad allowing it to lose all sense of creativity and freedom of expression. Once again, Carl has created a beautiful collection of songs, though all with a similar, quirky style unlike his usual genre-defying creations.

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guinevereslancelot · 7 months

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was trying to figure out why the hr guy lied abt why i was being fired and i just realized its bc it's illegal to fire me for asking for a reasonable accommodation for a disability or medical condition lol

#i could file an eeoc complaint and sue themmm but that sounds like a hassle #i even have in writing the request to change to part time due to my health #but im sure it would be a huge pain and go nowhere and its a small town as well i dont want to make problems #esp since im starting my own business right down the road #also the owner is a multimillionaire and would sue me to oblivion for defamation or something probably #but i will wait a month or two so they dont know its me and write them a bad google review 😌#bc their product quality sucks and they overcharge for disgusting moldy plants after they pay us shit to pick off the moldy leaves and ship #i spent all week picking thru gross moldy mealy bug infested plants trying to find ones that looked ok (after removing gross leaves) to ship #for $76 a tray!!#and for a slightly dif version of the plant each gross plug is like six dollars #and they come in trays of 51 i believe #they also do this with the edible plants btw #last week i was picking out the slimy moldy leaves of the basil so they could ship it to be distributed to every hannafords in the region 🤢#anyway their quality is so so awful and gross the owner is only rich bc he was born rich #despite his self made man backstory that he completely made up lol #i wanna namedrop them but i dont want to get sued #dont buy basil at hannafords if you live in new england tho

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little-ajax-56793 · 2 years

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I love being stubborn about random historical interpretations. The American Revolution lasted from the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 to the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. (Treaty of Ghent and not the War of 1812 because fuck Andrew Jackson specifically.) Change my mind. You can't. Anyway the scariest thing about being trans is that I'm going from girl who likes history (sexy) to guy who likes history (red flag)

#mercury mumbles #does that mean we kinda lost bc war of 1812 was a shit show? little bit ngl #but like #presidents washington though madison were all revolutionarys #washington and madison were veterans of the amrev actually #(madison was a colonel but he never saw actual combat just drilled)#majority of major political events from 1781 (yorktown) to 1815 (new orleans) werent expanding on anything they were ESTABLISHING #judicial review powers of exec branch necessary and proper clause etc #and then war of 1812 marks the us's first time defending their sovereignty and truly establishing that britian cant fuck around #and that find out would actually happen #but we did get fucking crushed we lost 1812 BIGTIME they burned down the fucking capital #but the treaty of ghent is the first time england treated america as like. actually seperate.#and then the presidents after madison arent known for being founders anymore.#monroe is a protege of jefferson (honestly i could extend the end point of amrev to monroe doctrine). jqadams is adams son #a jackson was a rev war vet but whats he known for? battle of new orleans! (the war was already over tho. useless and fuck a jackson)#yeah. nerd time.#anyway my apush teacher liked my embargo of 1807 shirt #oh no i just realized that one of my tags up there contains amr/v and its gonna get caught in those tags (censored for hope it wont)#i dont care enough to change it honestly woe amrev fandom my hot takes be upon ye

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michaelbaileywriter · 10 months

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Who Am I? I’m a writer originally from Falmouth, MA who now lives in Oxford, MA with my awesome wife Veronica and four cats who don’t like to let us sleep in. After 15 years with the Falmouth Enterprise, where I worked as a general and political reporter, blogger, and editor, I left the news industry to focus on my creative writing. In addition to my novels (more on that in a minute) I’m a…

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webxsoftech · 1 year

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middlebury-college · 1 year

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#Middlebury #Middlebury College #New England Review #literary magazine #poetry

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lunastationquarterly · 2 years

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October Special Edition: The Edgewater Chronicles by Paul Deady

I was lucky enough to snag an ARC of The Edgewater Chronicles by Tom Deady from Crossroad Press. I read it during my bout of Covid-19 (after two years, six months, three vaccinations, and gallons of hand sanitizer, it finally got me…). Covid sucks, but it gave me a good excuse to catch up on media I’d been neglecting. So, what are we working with here? I’ll start with the spoiler-free basics and…

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#arc #collection #crossroad press #fiction #horror #new england #new england gothic #novella #review #reviewer #scary stories #the edgewater chronicles #tom deady

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h0neyfreak · 6 days

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#i went to the obgyn today and got formally diagnosed with PCOS 🥳🥳🥳#I just have to get back to a normal weight for myself and take some non estrogen b/c and things should even out #truly cannot state enough how fast and easy this process was with female healthcare providers who listen and know what PCOS is #I lost my period in October and had my first PCP appointment in December #had a second appointment in February and an ultrasound two days later and got into the obgyn today #crazy what’s possible when the healthcare system actually functions #I was a little nervous bc the reviews for this doc said she made people feel uncared for #but she just talks fast and is from New England lol #also my hottest and most cancellable take: losing weight to address hormonal conditions is evidence backed care #like half the negative reviews were about here mentioning weight #as a doctor who specializes in fertility and PCOS….my guy please be so for real right now

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