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Personal Essays Disguised as Advice

Tiny Beautiful Things: Personal Essays Disguised as Advice “Every story I write creates me. I write to create myself.” ―Octavia Butler Lately, you can find me in my kitchen cooking and crying. While I am at times chopping onions, they are not the culprit. In an effort to read more, I’ve taken to listening to…

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How Form Reflects Meaning

Close Study: “Japanese Maple” by Clive James Retrieved from clivejames.com. Your death, near now, is of an easy sort. So slow a fading out brings no real pain. Breath growing short Is just uncomfortable. You feel the drain Of energy, but thought and sight remain: Enhanced, in fact. When did you ever see So much…

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Introducing Erica Anzalone

Erica Anzalone is the owner and founder of Witch Lit. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in poetry and a doctorate in English from UNLV, where she was awarded a Schaeffer fellowship. Her first book of poetry Samsara won the Noemi Press award. Poems from her second collection have been published in The Literary Review, Juked, Pangyrus, and…

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