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Jellyfish, Alexander Semenov

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Our last chapbook finalist is JACQUI GERMAIN for her manuscript, The Bones, The Salt & The Water. Check out (and share!) a sneak peek of the manuscript above, “Bipolar Is Bored and Renames Itself.”

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Governor Jay Nixon declares a state of emergency in Missouri as the nation awaits a grand jury decision in the case of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

-The Huffington Post

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state of emergency

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WHEREAS

they stage 

a die-in

in the streets

people get out

of cars

and bunkers

to chalk lines

around the shadows.

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WHEREAS

no one loots

a skeleton city

but the ghosts

wanting to be seen.

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WHEREAS 

“you’re not god. 

you don’t decide

when you’re going

 to take

 someone from here.”

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I FURTHER ORDER

 the hands. 

prayerprotestsurrender

 fists palms

one finger

one trigger

six bullets. 

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I FURTHER ORDER

this blood to run black or white

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF

“how do we look,

america,

how do we look?”

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state of emergency

Governor Jay Nixon declares a state of emergency in Missouri as the nation awaits a grand jury decision in the case of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

-The Huffington Post

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Alyssa Monks Oil on canvas

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Hey kid. You’re at an age where I’m pretty sure you’re about to have sex soon, or actually, you might even already be having it and you’re just *that* good at keeping it from me. I don’t really fret over that because I trust you. And because I trust myself and the job I’ve done as your...

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If you would talk to your daughter about safety, talk to your son about consent. 

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"THIS PICTURE WILL NOT CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT I STILL NEED FEMINISM AND I’M GOING TO REALLY, REALLY TELL YOU WHY":

-Because I got called a whore for wearing a short plaid skirt when I was 10

-and because when Nujood Ali from Yemen was 10 she got divorced

-Because black girls’ names became my classmates’ favorite “joke” when I was 11

-and because when an 11-year-old girl in Texas was raped by 18 men the New York Times wrote of how the girl “dressed older than her age”

-Because I started counting calories when I was 14

-and because when Malala Yousafzai was 14 she was shot in the head for trying to go to school

-Because I heard a boy greet a girl with “hey slut” today at age 16 -and because when a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio was filmed being raped by two boys at a party while unconscious the CNN reporters talked about how tragic it was because the rapists had such bright futures as athletes

-Because I will have to watch my drink at all bars and parties when I am 22

-and because when CeCe McDonald was 22 she was sentenced to 41 months in prison for defending herself against a man who screamed transphobic, racist insults at her and then slashed her face with a bottle

-Because no matter what age I am the biggest threat to men will still be heart disease, and the biggest threat to women will still be men.

-Because it is not just about me, because it is not just about anger, because it is not just a JOKE, because it is not just about “hating men,” because it is not just about girls with vaginas, because it is not just about ending “slut”, because it is not just about white straight girls in Rookie magazine, because it is not just about writing on backs, because it is not just about the fact that gay men are “fags” but lesbians are “hot,” because it is not just about pictures of thin white girls being the only google image results for the search phrase “beautiful women”, because it is not just about writing signs, because it is not just about what she was wearing or how many times she said yes before she changed her answer to no, because misogyny is not just about one thing and feminism is not just about one thing and it is not just “a trend” and it will not “happen” in just one way.

-And because yes. It is about equality for EVERYONE, but first and foremost it needs to be about equality for girls, because they are not treated equally to men, in every single sense, and you are not going to take feminism away from me and call me bossy/hostile/aggressive and make this about yourself or make it into a joke, because truth be told, I’m not joking and I’m tired of explaining. If you want to call yourself a feminist, you work hard to spread feminism, you do not turn this into a contest of whose struggle is greater and constantly demand to know what you can get out of feminism personally. Feminism is not just about you, or me, it is about everyone. If you’re male and you’re tired of men being stereotyped as hyper-masculine, soulless, sexist, inherent leader-tyrant creatures, then go out and prove the patriarchy wrong and fight for girls, like someone with a soul who believes in equality would. Then, yes, feminism will be about everyone.

-Sylvie (an amazing grrrl godess) Photo taken by Caroline http://c-h-0-w.tumblr.com/

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Movie Night Masterpost (all links working as of 26/10/2013):

The Great Gatsby

Evan Almighty

The Breakfast Club

Clueless

Theres Something About Mary

Clue

She’s the Man

Mean Girls

10 Things I Hate About You

Clerks

Switch

Legally Blonde

Insidious 

Pitch Perfect

Step Brothers

Imagine Me & You

The Silence of the Lambs

The Virgin Suicides 

Warm Bodies

Donnie Darko

Lolita

Pulp Fiction

Girl, Interrupted

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

21 Jump Street

Freaky Friday

Titanic

Pitch Perfect

Forrest Gump

The Outsiders

The Heat

Finding Nemo

Taken

Project X

Grease

The Hunger Games

The Aristocats

Scott Pilgrim vs The World

Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events

Fight Club

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Dead Poets Society

The Hangover

LOL

500 Days Of Summer

Bridesmaids

The Blind Side

Little Miss Sunshine

White Chicks

Easy A

Its Kind Of A Funny Story

Magic Mike

Lord of the rings:

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pokemon:

Pokemon Movie 1: Mewtwo Strikes Back

Pokemon Movie 2: The Power of One

Pokemon Movie 3: Spell Of The Unown

Harry potter:

Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix

Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince  

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows Part 1

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows Part 2

Pirate of The Caribbean:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 

Back to the Future:

Back to the Future

Back to the Future 2

Back to the Future 3

Disney:

 Snow White And The Seven Dwarves 

 Pinocchio 

 Fantasia 

 Fantasia 2000 

 Dumbo 

 Bambi 

 Bambi II 

 Saludos Amigos 

The Three Caballeros

 Make Mine Music 

Fun and Fancy Free 

 Melody Time 

 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 

 Cinderella 

 Alice in Wonderland 

 Peter Pan

 Lady and the Tramp 

 Sleeping Beauty 

 101 Dalmatians 

 The Sword in the Stone 

 The Jungle Book 

 The Aristocats 

 Robin Hood 

 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 

The Rescuers 

 The Rescuers Down Under

 The Fox and the Hound 

 The Black Cauldron 

 The Great Mouse Detective 

 Oliver & Company 

 The Little Mermaid 

 The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea 

 Beauty and the Beast 

 Aladdin 

 The Lion King

 The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride 

 Pocahontas 

 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World 

 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 

 Hercules 

Mulan 

 Mulan II 

 Tarzan 

Tarzan II 

 Dinosaur 

The Emperor’s New Groove 

Atlantis: The Lost Empire 

Atlantis: Milo’s Return 

Lilo & Stitch 

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch 

Treasure Planet 

Brother Bear 

Brother Bear 2 

Home on the Range 

Chicken Little 

Meet the Robinsons 

 Bolt 

The Princess and the Frog 

Tangled (HD) 

Wreck-It Ralph 

Pixar:

Toy Story 

Toy Story 2 

Toy Story 3 

A Bug’s Life 

 Monsters, Inc.

 Finding Nemo 

The Incredibles 

Cars 

Cars 2 

Ratatouille 

WALL-E

Up 

Brave 

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I have a little piece of their prison

wedged in a book in my backpack.

I was always corrected

when I called it a town,

          “it’s a village,”

but I never realized what that meant

until I stood at the beginning and the edge

of the end and could see Poland

across the quivering wheat.

My parents say “East Germany” and I know

the E is capitalized.

I can hear it in the way the people

lean out the windows to stare,

but don’t make a sound.

In the noiseless night, the whole village

holds its breath, a suffocating

stillness scarred by the stasi.

Somewhere, a dog howls

and is silenced abruptly.

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From “The Bats and The Bees: Conducting Research In The World’s Newest Country Yields a New Genus and Unimagined Dangers,” by DeeAnn Reeder

Niumbaha means “rare” or “unusual”

in Zande, or some gorgeous bats

with translucent wings.

Darrin, the meat dog,

keeps at least three knives

on him at all times.

Carnivores follow his scent.

      “We’ve got to go,” he says.

      with poachers, our white skin

      would protect us, but I can’t say the same

      for our African ecologists.

The bees are the real problem.

They’re not aggressive,

but they’re everywhere.

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OH MY GOD I GOT PUBLISHED

screaming.

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Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous-

Frank O’Hara (Meditations in an Emergency)

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Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous-

Frank O'Hara (Meditations in an Emergency)

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love poem 137

There are plenty of ways to fall in love—

I swooned for you in at least twenty ways

[1. you buy me a latte 2. you tuck a strand of hair

behind my ear 3. you play my guitar horribly, etc.]

—but there’s only one way to fall out.

So here I am, whispering

to that jagged, hollow scar

you made, whispering

to the dead tissue inside,

whispering,

“grow.”

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love poem 137

There are plenty of ways to fall in love—

I swooned for you in at least twenty ways

[1. you buy me a latte 2. you tuck a strand of hair

behind my ear 3. you play my guitar horribly, etc.]

—but there’s only one way to fall out.

So here I am, whispering

to that jagged, hollow scar

you made, whispering

to the dead tissue inside,

whispering,

“grow.”