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On and Off the 91 Freeway

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By Susan Straight, John Freeman
| Alta Journal Verified
A lot happens on California freeways. On any given weekday, a hot wind might steal through cars, around motorcycles. Across poorly packed trailers—some with people inside. Traveling down one such freeway at speed, a driver may not be entirely conscious that the land rushing by is many thousands of years old, even if strip malls now occupy it. If you’re heading toward the Inland Empire, people might call the freeway the 91, but it has had other names given by other people.
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The Sharp Lip of Knowledge

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By Dagoberto Gilb, John Freeman
| Alta Journal Verified
A teenager is a galaxy unto themselves. Their childhood is so close they sometimes feel nearer to animals. But they’re also far enough from adulthood as to be ignored. In this way, they sometimes stand among us, watching and observing, unheeded, taking it all in: the strange bargains of adult life. The social mores people think they need to talk about to enact. The secrets.
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Essay: The force behind poet Jonah Mixon-Webster's new work

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By John Freeman
| WUOM-FM (Ann Arbor, MI) Verified
Jonah Mixon-Webster’s sophomore collection of poems, Promise/Threat, signals a new approach to place-based writing. Flint, MI, where Mixon-Webster is from, informs this book’s topography, but is never named in the poems. Instead, Mixon-Webster’s poems exist as dreamscapes and irrecoverable figments. “Inchoate Chatter” exemplifies the way Mixon-Webster troubles the idea of place, set as it is at the T.S. Eliot House in Gloucester, Massachusetts and skewering the modernist poet’s casual racism.
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