Literature

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. Monica Furlong’s Wise Child was the first time I ever saw a mother that I wanted to be. I was ten or

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 no secret that the tech world has a troubling track record with diversity in the workplace, especially with the dearth 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. This is the fifth year I’ve put together a list of books I’m anticipating by women writers of color, a catalog I

I write with words that have shadow but don’t shelterno sooner do I start this page insomnia burns itnot the words but what they consume is what reality starts occupyingthe place without placethe agony the game the illusion of being in the world illusion is not what reality is made of but the ignited lightningsimulacra

The First Day and Everything After Joel Cuthbertson 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. “After Life” by Joel Cuthbertson This all really happened to me. 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. Truth be told, I loathe re-imaginings of myths. The impulse feels reformist rather than revolutionary. I find these renderings on the whole

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 was 23 the first time I saw Children of Men. I had graduated from college and was working an administrative job

You Can’t Hoard Your Way into the American Dream 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. “Son” by Mike Schoch In terms of helping people throw out unnecessary shit

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. Hope is irresistible. A dozen years ago hope got us a president, and against all logic we’ve continued hoping ever since. But

[I ask everybody] I ask everybodyhave you noticed todaywhen the time passedwith its voice of silencewith its common appearanceI had a word to shareit will happen next timewhen I am awake I am listening je demande à tout le mondeavez-vous vu aujourd’huile temps quand il est passéavec sa voix de silenceavec son air des toujoursj’avais

There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. Last year was a difficult one, but there were at least 40 up sides: debut authors, with fresh voices and viewpoints, whose work offered us perspective or escape. As

There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. Translating novels, short stories, and poetry into English in a way that remains true to their original form can take years, even decades of dedication. And then there is

Mom’s Ex-Fiancé Makes a Bad Boyfriend Kevin Barry Share article There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. “That Old Country Music” by Kevin Barry Hannah Cryan waited in the Transit van up in the Curlews. Setanta

There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. The grand master put a brass collar around the new member’s neck, a symbol for dogs’ servitude towards their masters. Taking the new member by the right hand, he

Nothing Adds Up in American Math There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. Dividing Line If every crosswalk is an equals sign,  then every block’s an equation  that needs balancing. On Kansas City’s  State Line Road,

There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. The last thing I did on my last day in the office, March 11, was try to figure out which books to bring home. I wasn’t sure how long

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Our Love Is Nothing Like an Apocalypse Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! the miracle I am so grateful each morning that we have not yet eviscerated each other completely. it sticks in