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In Memory of Herbert Morris - Malika Booker
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Nine Nights - Malika Booker
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Malika Booker
B. 1970
“She is a black statue in a whitewashed wooden chair, a dilapidated board house, sitting still till dusk spreads her silk petticoat across the sagging sky and bats swarm into the evening’s canvas.”
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The Word for Wood - Will Burns
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Photograph of Chet Baker - Will Burns
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Transmission - Will Burns
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A Summer Blues - Will Burns
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A Man Made of Water - Will Burns
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A Comparative History of Fire - Momtaza Mehri
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by Rachel Long