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Literature

Monday, December 21, 2020

Halsey’s ‘I Would Leave Me if I Could’ is scrappy, beautiful playback

Cover of Halsey's Book
Simon and Schuster/Courtesy

Composed of just over 80 poems, “I Would Leave Me if I Could” is a literary mosaic congruent with the intention, content and style of her music.
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Retrospective Issue 2020

Thursday, December 10, 2020
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The quarantine ’20s: A month-by-month collection of poetry

From life before quarantine to the tumultuous election, these poems provide a glimpse of the extraordinary events we’ve experienced throughout this past year.
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Portfolio

Saturday, December 5, 2020
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11 months in memos: A poem

Nov 1, 2020 5:57AM / Wet eyes on the highwayI need to do better. / I need to be better for both of them
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Portfolio

Friday, November 6, 2020
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Clear: A poem

And I promise you, / you never unlearned how to be strong.
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30 Years of ADA 2020, Literature

Thursday, October 22, 2020

‘Burnt Bones and Beautiful Butterflies’ is detailed self-portrait wrapped in love, loss

Her poetry is honest in this sense, accessing a vulnerability that clearly defines Mather as a writer who isn’t afraid to express the real, the raw and the ugly.
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Portfolio

Friday, October 16, 2020

Eulogy for a vampire: A poem

I try to spit the / Seed out; instead it / suffocates in skin.
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Portfolio

Friday, October 9, 2020
Illustration of a painterly face in blue tones, with mirrored versions of it emerging on either side.

New acquaintanceship: A poem

She places a morsel of her soul in between my teeth — Nice to meet you too.
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Portfolio

Friday, October 2, 2020
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Empty: A poem

I sit in the room full of / Empty / things that remind me of something / else.
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Portfolio

Friday, October 2, 2020
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Better left unsaid: A poem

We see patterns everywhere / Shapes and sounds and sights / Lightly coated with dust, strands of spun gold   
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Portfolio

Friday, September 25, 2020
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Perpetual predawn glow: A poem

I came across this phrase the other day, / reading about the orange-brown haze blanketing the world outside my window
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