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Today: Join Our Twitter Chat on Drug Policy
By Nina Puro 02/06/13 We invite you to debate the drug policies that affect us all: February 6 at 3 pm EST. Tweet #drugpol to join! To legalize or not to legalize? That is one of MANY questions. The recent legalization of marijuana in two US states, and the continuing drug war in Latin America and beyond place drug policy at the forefront of national debate. Should we decriminalize or legalize marijuana more widely? And what about other illegal drugs, like heroin and cocaine?
On Entropy | The Offing
Moray 6 © Adam Stack There are more people alive now than there are dead in the earth, an article says. I keep telling myself to invest in entropy, or at least in defining it. In contending with it. Decom- position is a performance of exponential dignity. An act of stripping what life worn fabrics perforate the borders between lyric and magic. I want to step out of my language and light up, but the body is a container the body is a mold, I fit snug; I can barely breathe in here.
In Recent Poetry Collections, Weapons Made of Words
The Shortlist Dec. 14, 2018 IF THEY COME FOR US Poems By Fatimah Asghar 106 pp. One World. Paper, $16. Image Asghar lost her parents young; with family roots in Pakistan and in divided Kashmir, she grew up in the United States, a queer Muslim teenager and an orphan in the confusing, unfair months and years after 9/11. From that experience she has made a book that deserves broad attention.
Landscape with Rum and Implosion | The Offing
You should have seen my breasts inside a dress so extravagant it was rogue among a decade of the type of electric horticulture these bittersweet groves were founded on, so, yeah, I traded it right off my body for a bottle of rum on the cleanest, brightest street corner I didn’t think to guard my skin against because I’m in love with a woman who doesn’t appeal to me. Turn on the television and all you hear is the new way of speaking or the old new way of speaking now that everyone’s doing it.
New Rule | The Offing
when you are going to kill a person, you must first ^[black/brown]* learn our names, look us in the eyes & say them aloud. no more learning our names after
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Feature image by Laura Letinsky, Untitled I, from the series Ill Form and Void Full, 2011. Archival pigment print. © Laura Letinsky, Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery. If afraid, cured leather & wood-smoke. If forgot, sassafras & hominy. If remembered, bright blue hook. If bereft, lamb sizzling. If rupture, obsidian & chickweed. If suture, sleep curled around a pine tree. If surge, puddle of milk. If shadow, puddle of gasoline. If gender, shadow hurtling overhead.
Mary Karr Names Names
By Nina Puro 05/22/13 A quarter-century of sobriety has filled the Liars' Club author with candor. She proves it by treating The Fix to her unfiltered views on David Foster Wallace, Dr. Drew, James Frey and much more. Mary Karr takes few prisoners. Photo via In today’s saturated memoir market, Mary Karr’s still sizzle.
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