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Everyday Muse: A Review of Christine Stewart-Nuñez's Unbound & Branded by LAURA MADELINE WISEMAN
I can say honestly that Kate Moss and I have never been friends. Even when young, vulnerable, and with loads of cultural literacy while perusing slinky images splayed in Vogue and Cosmo, I simply couldn't have picked Kate Moss from a line-up. I'm not even sure I'd want to, even today. And yet Unbound & Branded has given me a different Kate Moss. A Kate Moss who can "tear down the wall," "peel back the universe," "spend your whole paycheck on yourself," and even, "tell the boss / to fuck off."
20 June 2007 | nonfiction, review, review of poetry
Imaginary Greenhouse by EMILY KENDAL FREY
Dear Jalapeno,
Dear Vagrant,
The trees are making
fools of themselves.
I'm making faces
at the greedy river.
The sky spits
at us in our tiny
white hats.
9 July 2008 | poetry
a thin skin by PATRICK M. PILARSKI
of snow dust
on pigeon shit
at the end of another year
20 September 2009 | poetry
Employment (II) by GEORGE HERBERT
Man is no star, but a quick coal
Of mortal fire;
Who blows it not, nor doth control
A faint desire,
Lets his own ashes choke his soul.
To 42opus Editors on December 6, 2004 by ANDREW LUX
Winter on the open seas is a grueling affair. Sometimes, the nets I haul up have turned to ice. I know this because the fish have begun to talk again. They say it was so cold…
17 March 2005 | nonfiction, cover letter

