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The Rhythm of Chronic Illness: A Review of “You’ve Been So Lucky Already” by Alethea Black

You wake up and everything has shifted. You have been throwing up and napping sporadically for 6 months. You’ve been sleeping twice as much as..
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An Interview with Alison Powell, Proximity’s 2018 Essay Prize winner

I was given the opportunity to interview poet, essayist, and scholar Alison Powell in the middle of the most extreme winter of our generation. A..
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Beauty In the Mundane: A Review of the Podcasts “Everything Is Alive” and “Wonderful!”

In “Unclenching the Fist,” rhetorician Richard Marback argues that objects are like words: “They provoke response. They are experienced. They are all right there, flowing..
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An Interview with Carrie La Seur following “A Working Class Death”

I read “A Working Class Death” for the first time in a coffee shop. I took deep measured breaths to prevent myself from crying in..
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Dispelling Myths: Why “Well-Read Black Girl” Is the Anthology We All Need

In the introduction to Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Penguin Random House 2018), editor Gloria Edim explains, “Reading highlights the intersection of..
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On Interruption: Writing in the Company of Children

I am trying to create an outline for a workshop called “Nothing To Write About: Finding Inspiration in Writer’s Block” when my husband enters the..
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A Conversation with Danielle Geller

One night a few years ago, I was tidying up my kitchen in Seattle when a text from a New York City zip code lit..
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When the Body Can No Longer Run

I run. Miles and miles and miles stretch out in front of me like the unraveling of a life. I run. Through woods and parks,..
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Every Woman Keeps a Flame Against the Wind

An essay by Kristen Millares Young.
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A Conversation With Christopher Howell

Christopher Howell, a professor of poetry at Eastern Washington University, has written extensively about loss. His most recent book, Love’s Last Number, was published by Milkweed Editions..