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. As a country, we seem far from acknowledging that slavery and racial violence have consequences in present-day for living Black Americans. Despite
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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. When I reckon up my exes, it’s not the boys I dated who I count—it’s the girls I didn’t. The ones I
Things You Should Have Thought of Before Ordering a Baby Sheldon Costa 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. “A Dependable Man” by Sheldon Costa The baby
Ghetto Heroes Square in Kraków / Photo by annaspies / Flickr Piotr Florczyk’s From the Annals of Kraków (Lynx House Press, 2020) narrates the searing realization of an almost unnoticed absence, a regret urging us to learn about what we missed. This, his second full-length volume of poems in English, shows that the shadow 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. Every love story is built with inherently high stakes. After all, a heart can be the ultimate prize, and courtship a most
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 set a calendar reminder for the day Nomadland would be available to stream. My anticipation came partly from the chatter of
Nona Faustine, In Praise of Famous Men No More,2019, courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, © by Nona Faustine In Fantasy America, a new exhibit at The Warhol, five cross-disciplinary artists offer a complex picture of American life indelibly tied to this tumultuous moment of political upheaval and social reckoning. Here, José Carlos Diaz,
On the Yangtze River, through the Wu Gorge / Photo by Perfect Zero / Flickr Summer Elegy for my father From June to June, as though uninterrupted,I was born and orphaned.My first memory was water: you, motherand me in a bathtub that seemed to be a river.From river to river, as though uncut by
I Want to Be a Bad Bitch Cat of the Bronx 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 Bodega Cats In the window of my grandfather’s corner
Check out this great episode with author Randall DeVallance of Beacon Publishing Group talking about his release “Memoir of a Doomsday Prophet” available on Amazon and www.beaconpublishinggroup.com/memoirofadoomsdayprophet Mike Wagner is a 30+ year broadcasting veteran interviewing the most interesting guests from celebrities, actors, singers, writers to the most interesting people today! Mike is currently a weekend
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 came out as a lesbian at nineteen, I had never kissed a girl. My only representation was pirated streams 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. In an early essay in Girlhood, Melissa Febos describes a pond that she used to frequent as a child: “Despite its small
M. Ward Leon is a former advertising creative director who started his career at Doyle Dane Bernbach, New York, during the Madmen era. While at DDB his writing on the Volkswagen Rabbit campaign won him inclusion into the Smithsonian Institution Advertising Archives. Recently his writing has earned him two Emmy Awards for Public Service advertising.
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. What would the world look like without men? How would countries function with governments led by women? Would workplaces become less toxic
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 Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner—also known as the indie-pop musician Japanese Breakfast—writes of her mother’s battle with terminal cancer and
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. At some point in the past few years, I’ve noticed that a certain kind of wildly popular self-help guru—male, young, obsessed with
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. We often behave as if there’s something inherently shameful about reading and writing fanfiction. I remember compulsively clearing my browser history as
Win a Round Trip to Complete Oblivion Izumi Suzuki 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. “That Old Seaside Club” by Izumi Suzuki Sunlight floods the bay.