Tag: NAU
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Driving to Colorado by Elias Sorich
Driving to Colorado Clouds draped down a bare field, trails of mist sloping, stingers of a jellyfish.
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Three Poems by Savannah Slone
Field Notes on Becoming Yourself pluck fallopian foxgloves from your diseased roots egg trek cardiac harvest wear insects as rings, arthropod legs caging each digit around your neck, trilobites rusty toenails scratch off achilles blisters stack blocks with your beet stained gums pick suckers from your armpits swallow them whole: deer ticks, your aphrodisiac palpitate your inner…
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An Interview with Todd Robert Petersen
The wheel of fortune is one of the most well-known images of fate. This wheel spins randomly, setting the course of destiny for the people and events it controls. Northern Arizona University graduate and Thin Air founder Todd Robert Petersen’s It Needs to Look Like We Tried takes the idea of the wheel of fortune…
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Loud People Visiting Schools and a Brief Discussion of Birds, by Justin Kanzler
The three-wattled bellbird has a call audible to humans up to half a mile away; it lives primarily in Central America, and from the base of its beak protrude three long worm-like tendrils. Most, if given the choice, do not surround themselves with three-wattled bellbirds in part because they are very secretive, and in part,…
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Unzip Me by Hannah Baggott
Unzip Me by Hannah Baggott Production by Gabriel Max Starner, Heather Hayden, and Joel Lain. After Samuel Beckett. – Hannah Baggott holds MFA from Oregon State University and is now a Lecturer of English at UNC Pembroke. She is a regular contributor with PDXX Collective and winner of the 2015 Jan and Marcia Vilcek Prize…
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Vintage Binoculars by Leah Browning
Vintage Binoculars by Leah Browning Danny found them on a shelf at the back of the shop. The thin leather strap was worn to a string on one side, and missing its snap, but someone had looped it through and tied it in a knot. They were otherwise in good condition, for their age. He took them to…
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The Reason I Read: Or Seven Synchronicities I’ve Had With Books Lately by Elizabeth Hellstern
The Reason I Read: Or Seven Synchronicities I’ve Had With Books Lately by Elizabeth Hellstern Carl Jung coined the term synchronicity, saying that events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship, yet seem to be related. For me, synchronicities mean that I’m on the right path. They give validation to my muses, to…
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Adjustment by Natalie Rose
adjustment* noun ad·just·ment \ə-ˈjəs(t)-mənt\ : a change that makes it possible for a person to do better or work better in a new situation After living in big cities on the east and west coast, and even in that Jackson Pollack-esque splatter of freeways and tract houses two hours south of here, Flagstaff can sometimes…
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Grayscale by Brian Burmeister
GRAYSCALE by Brian Burmeister A month after Mom passed, I went back to the house to pack up. In the corner of her closet, buried under a pile of blankets, was a box within a box. Inside were dozens of aged, black-and-white photos of my mother with a man I didn’t know. There were no…
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Featured Artist: David Mrugala
Featured Artist: David Mrugala David Mrugala is a German architect living in Korea and working in an interdisciplinary environment with a particular interest in generative processes that not only aim for visual representations but also in responsive and interactive environments. “I launched the platform thedotisblack to explore generative drawings using the programming language Processing. The main focus…
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