selections from Jasmeen Patheja’s ongoing Blank Noise Project
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Contributed By: Jasmeen Patheja
selections from Jasmeen Patheja’s ongoing Blank Noise Project
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There’s a story that used to get told, Lara, of how my maternal grandfather lost his leg in a woodcutting accident and the unlucky events that followed. It most often starts in Danville, Arkansas, where Mama’s people—the Stepwells—were from, that brutal summer of 1952 when she was about to turn twelve, your age now. I […]
In “Wise Hazard”, Jane Zwart considers humanity’s future in the face of climate change: “Only later do I wonder who would trade all that life / for being proved right.”
and I will saunter out of life a stag / an inverted stamen— the color / of an unwatched sky / on planet venus, caked in spit and pollen / with FAGGOT tattooed on my tongue. KORBIN JONES is a Pushcart-nominated writer who graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with degrees in Writing and in […]