Writing is an act of resistance
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On Learning the Department of Justice, Using an Artistic Expression Argument, Will Side With the Colorado Baker Who Refused to Sell a Wedding Cake to a Same-Sex Couple
Joni Mayer, LGBT rights, gay wedding cake, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, PoetryBy Joni Mayer The baker is open to the public, may have asked his other couples how and where they met—eHarmony, blind date, a Boulder bar, but never Grindr— may have been inspired by those data to use apricot filling in place of peach mousse, to stack four tiers instead of three, may have…
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Rage Vow
By Cesca Janece Waterfield Hang a wreath on my maiden door, pubic-black and furled, a bough to say someone has passed over. Bury her pleats and sweet sestinas among spring narcissus, and if you recall the flush, soft breast that slipped free in primeval joy, do not depend on the moon of her aureole…
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Pantoum for ‘Real America’
By D.A. Gray The men we knew have long since passed. Their bodies still fill the broadest doorways but something in their eyes, their voice has gone replaced by a rage that crackles over the radio. Their bodies still fill the broadest of doorways and their eyes follow us, from great distances. There’s only the…
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A short story by Colin Patrick Ennen Antonia ducked behind a hardware store to catch her breath and avoid puking, thinking there was no way they’d look for her skinny, uncoordinated ass there. Huffing hard, she vowed to get in shape if she made it through this crisis, because either something was buzzing nearby or…
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Two Poems by Laura Orem
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Civil Discourse in the Trumpocalypse
By Sara Marchant My brother Marvin is calling me, and, as usual, I debate whether to answer the phone. My mother claims she never had an affair with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David, but my brother is so similar to the self-centered, self-absorbed, neurotic nervous maniac David, that I’m not sure I believe her.…
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Cast
By Ruth Nolan Many bones have been broken here in the tricky Mojave River quicksand, huge Cottonwood trees taken down, gnawed low to the marrow by beavers. Behind me, the shadow of a man, his fishing pole slung across his shoulder. He tells me he will catch crawdads first, skin and fry a trout or…
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An Old Dog Never Barks at Gunmen
By Bola Opaleke – Neither should you, a wise man once said. Even pickaxes and sledgehammers would do just fine – like pickaxe-men or sledgehammer-men. That reminds me of people that left raising a finger of “revenge my death” up so high as the bullet-ridden body thuds. What the soldiers have done to us –…
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Take This Memo by Tara Campbell
From: Director of Market Research, Irrational Fears Division To: Executive Director, Enough Already with the Guns, USA (EAWG USA) I’m writing to follow up on our discussion about whether any lessons can be learned from California’s speedy abolition of open carry after the Black Panthers’ armed protest at the state Capitol building in 1966. I…