Movable Type Issue No. 14: Justen Ahren
JUSTEN AHREN Awakening Landscapes: Italy and Devotion If absolute human attention is a form of prayer, as Simone Weil said, then all of us have prayed into some place—a private room, an orchard, a well. In these places we feel We Are. Maybe we were born there. Maybe...
Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sweta Vikram
Sweta Vikram Let’s diversify our listening: gut instead of the brain He is a “Male Karen!” My friend announced at lunch as she bit into a succulent slider. I looked at her face in disbelief. “What do you mean?” I popped a potato chip into my mouth. The crunch was...
Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sarah Birnbach
Sarah Birnbach Honoring 19th-Century Black Women Writers Prior to the Civil War, the majority of Black Americans in the United States were forbidden to read or write. Even after the war, significant impediments to learning and literacy remained. Nevertheless, some...
Movable Type Issue No. 14: Jeannine Oullette
Jeannine Oullette Wingless Bodies I. Void My father is not a swan. His bones are not hollow inside his flesh. The spaces between the phalanges of his feet are not spanned by delicate black webbing. My father has never once trumpeted. My father has no air sacs on his...
Movable Type Issue No. 14: Liam Greenwell
Liam Greenwell Authenticity Does Not Exist My desire to travel came from my grandfather, Harold, even though he was that breed of person who preferred the backroads of Western Kentucky to anywhere else. He had road maps of Caldwell, Trigg, and Lyon counties with...
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