Photo by Megan (Markham) Bucknall / Unsplash It is easy to be a mother.Childbirth was nothing.Marriage and divorceonly crackthe plaster a littlelike when the S-traingoes by. It is easy to writeeasy to readyour own works out loudgood grounds forslipping away from home. What is difficultis the coffee hourafterward.The other adults there seeyour hands are shakingand
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If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Suchitra Vijayan’s debut book, Midnight’s Borders, is a genre-bending book of nonfiction—made of stories, encounters, vignettes, and photographs—about home, belonging, and displacement.
It’s Too Hot to Be This Close to My Family If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Ode to the New York Heat Wave My family discovered each other
Photo by Basetrack 18 / Flickr The trees outside my balcony, Remind me of the trees of Afghanistan They are big green clouds that land on the ground to lift our spiritsand take them for a journey of joy. Remember how children clamor to climb trees?Like passengers climb into planes and look from childhood-sized windows?
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. When I first started working on this list, I didn’t have a list of titles so much as I had a list
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. I can say with certainty that my first love was romantic comedy fiction. While the past few years have born some wonderful
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. On March 30, 2012, as I was nearing the end of my second year of a PhD program in English literature, my
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. It’s hard to summarize Names for Light, which is exactly what makes it so compulsively readable. But here are the basics: told
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. For Women in Translation month, we’ve curated a reading list of novels and short story collections written and translated by women. Exploring
Photo by michael_swan / Flickr Alternatives could or should be basin or lagoon or pool or puddle orsmall body or was there a motive or I got here by myselfiterating through conversions or turning toward any othersynonym of conversion is sea change or changing, simplythe gulls are always here or sounding in this land-locked spacethey
The Last Story in a Long Marriage Hilma Wolitzer Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. “The Great Escape” by Hilma Wolitzer I used to look at
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Lineage is complicated in Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s debut novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. Set in Washington, D.C., and Chicasetta—a
Series editor’s note: With the opening poems of the 2021 series, Ariana Benson resurrects vivid, fleshy worlds, in which Black boys are immersed in fawnhood, leaving their coffin-shaped prints upon the earth, a sort of prelude to the wounding that will be inflicted upon them. Yet the boys are also surrounded by a forest, trees
Photo by Mahtem Shiferraw When the social uprisings shook the country last summer and reverberated throughout the globe in an astonishingly collapsing wave, we had already been cut a thousand ways, and thousands more were coming our way. Seeping in anger did not do it any longer; nor did immersing oneself into the deepest of
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Paparazzi photos of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are proliferating in the tabloids. Teenagers are flooding stores to buy track suits, crop
You Can’t Vaccinate a City Animal for Rudeness If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. London Foxes It took us four years, but we cured all of London’s foxes
Assembly Dear fellow carpenters and woodworkers,I come with greetings of solidarity from the metaphysicians.Among us the situation has also become untenable,our members refuse to pay their dues.From now on lyrical poetry no longer exists,with your consent poetryhas decided to end all its operations this winter.Don’t take this the wrong way,but we’d still like to make