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A Miracle Monocle Micro-Anthology
The editorial staff of Miracle Monocle, the award-winning online literary journal housed at the University of Louisville, is pleased to announce the release of the fifth installment of its micro-anthology series. A LITTLE SUGAR IN THE TANK asks contributors to consider what it means to live as a Queer person in the South. What are the frictions of existing in a (historically) conservative region while not conforming to the expectations of that conservatism? What are the benefits? We encouraged our talented contributors to think about this from as many different angles as they could: from humorous to tragic, from bored to beautiful, from ugly to inspired. Moments of connection, disconnection, dissonance, and resonance are all here.
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a ghazal that never gets to bear the name of its author
the autumn speaks more of the harmony songs of birds, at Saskatchewan the winter eats up the moths of colors, it is what makes poets off us, the discovery of sounds at the inductions of poem, the uncovering of new …
Edie Sedgwick, 2007
I shimmer under black lights and sway to the sound in my perfect purple-sequined dress purchased just for this. It flows over my hips, skims my fishnet thighs. I’ve tied up my hair in a silk scarf. I am Edie …
DAEDALUS IN HIS DELIRIUM
Dean Meeker print, 1976 the gone mind singing as it goes sings serene deformities of wings, a parched bronze noon, shoreline foam receding with the kelp it spat :: it sings I had no sons, no hazed altitudes to glide, …
Encounter in a Landscape
A woman in bifocals with one tooth missing meets a woman in sunglasses with three teeth missing on a cloudy day. All works © Lydia Davis