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    My Father's Hotel and Other Stories
    Young, Charity (2024-08)
    6 short stories have in common themes of ambition and obligation to others.
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    DENSCAPE
    Osborne, Imogen (2024-08)
    DENSCAPE takes its reader to a landscape defined by hiding places. These are poems suffused with surreal encounters and otherworldly figures. Images push towards an all-too-recognizable quotidian-apocalypse. Here, the body is a site for spiritual respite and all things untamed. We move from suburban corners of southwest England to mossy strips of Dartmoor to restless lakes in the northeast of the United States and beyond, into the liminal–the phone screens, the video calls, the unfinished blueprints of a house designed to be soulless.
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    The Humane Use and Care of Animals
    O'Brien, Samantha (2024-08)
    a novel written in submission for Samantha Kathryn O'Brien's Master of Fine Arts thesis
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    Snow
    Wang, Jiachen (2024-08)
    A short story collection about China.
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    Meadow Theory
    Chan, Derek (2024-08)
    In Meadow Theory, longing and loss drive the speaker into excavations of familial history, political erasure, objecthood, and place-making. These poems travel from Australia to Hong-Kong and China, where the cornfields of a hometown village and a grandmother’s plastic flowers shape the imagination of speaker attempting to retrieve a diasporic lineage; to Ithaca and New York, where the snowy landscapes open into meditations of the exilic condition, the dailiness of inter-generational trauma, and elegiac encounters with absent beloveds. Permeating Meadow Theory is a metaphysical ethos: an interest in not merely documenting the world, but also of attuning into what shimmers elusively behind the material landscape, and the transformations which occur in that encounter. Meadow Theory attempts to give form to indefinable thresholds of experiences; human and other-than-human perceptions are held in quivering suspension, relations, and contradictions. These are poems which trace the erotic swerves of the mind, as they work to interrogate and deconstruct the limits of what can be known, and to unsettle the locus of the self through language. By piecing together voices, memories, and fragments—using persona, myth, and imagination—Meadow Theory inhabits the shimmering ruptures of archive and history—suspending the page into an archeological practice which exists within and beyond the boundaries of space and time. Here, the speaker in is not only haunted, but actively haunts their past, through imaginative visitations and communions with the dead. Blue petals are stirred by the wind into the shape of a lost child; drowned voices float out from the bottom of a well, trying to stitch themselves into unsent letters for their mothers. Where history falters, the lyric rushes in to fill the gaps left behind.
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    I've Been Almost Nowhere
    Cottle, Meredith (2024-08)
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    Infirma
    Ayaz, Natasha (2024-08)
    Infirma, a literary novel
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    AR:RANGE:MENTS
    Heller, Esther (2023-08)
    Ar:range:ments is an arrangement of poetry, essay, prose, and images that in their presentarrangement, are a possibility of time and space that is felt now, has been felt, and is yet to be known/unknown. Gathering language and memories as a means of becoming whole. The hope for language, omnidirectional temporality, and multispatial presence zests in the arrangements made and yet to be made from language, memory, space, and time
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    You Are Stranded, Child
    Zong, Winniebell (2023-08)
    A poetry collection navigating through intergeneration, maternal lineage, PTSD after surviving sexual assault, and how COVID-era family separation expounds the diaspora identity for a Chinese woman. Other themes include feminism, mother-daughter relationship, and experiments in poetic form (such as contrapuntal, erasure, and free form).
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    J. Harmon's Blush Departments
    Harmon, Juan (2023-08)
    Poems written by Juan Harmon during the 21-23 MFA program at Cornell University.