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- ## by Alia Spartz

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Because we are so close to Marta and her guilt, we see her holding onto anchors that are causing her to sink.

#### The Salvage – Anbara Salam

Because we are so close to Marta and her guilt, we see her holding onto anchors that are causing her to sink.
- ## by Daniel Lassell

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The story of I DO KNOW SOME THINGS is palpable, welling at every edge with urgency

#### I Do Know Some Things – Richard Siken

The story of I DO KNOW SOME THINGS is palpable, welling at every edge with urgency
- ## by Danielle Bartholet

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For Wirpsza, a fugue can be a person, notes can be nails that stick in one’s head, and God himself can play the piano of humankind

#### Apotheosis of Music – Witold Wirpsza

For Wirpsza, a fugue can be a person, notes can be nails that stick in one’s head, and God himself can play the piano of humankind
- ## by Azeezah Adekanmbi

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Our history is in the bodies they tried to straighten, the stories they would not write, the lives they refused to archive.

#### The Women We Inherit: Ayodele Olofintuade’s ‘Swallow’ and the Reclamation of Queer Histories

Our history is in the bodies they tried to straighten, the stories they would not write, the lives they refused to archive.

- ## by Alia Spartz

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Because we are so close to Marta and her guilt, we see her holding onto anchors that are causing her to sink.

#### The Salvage – Anbara Salam

Because we are so close to Marta and her guilt, we see her holding onto anchors that are causing her to sink.
- ## by Daniel Lassell

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The story of I DO KNOW SOME THINGS is palpable, welling at every edge with urgency

#### I Do Know Some Things – Richard Siken

The story of I DO KNOW SOME THINGS is palpable, welling at every edge with urgency
- ## by Danielle Bartholet

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For Wirpsza, a fugue can be a person, notes can be nails that stick in one’s head, and God himself can play the piano of humankind

#### Apotheosis of Music – Witold Wirpsza

For Wirpsza, a fugue can be a person, notes can be nails that stick in one’s head, and God himself can play the piano of humankind
- ## by Jake Bartman

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The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.

#### The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler

The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.

- ## w/ Lexi Kent-Monning

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How much of our own life do we try to forget, force away? Wendy C. Ortiz lives in those moments. You can see it in her book Excavation, which details her high school teacher’s grooming of her, as it escalates into a full blown relationship; to Hollywood Notebook, a daily record of her twenty-something self \[…\]

#### Wendy C. Ortiz

How much of our own life do we try to forget, force away? Wendy C. Ortiz lives in those moments. You can see it in her book Excavation, which details her high school teacher’s grooming of her, as it escalates into a full blown relationship; to Hollywood Notebook, a daily record of her twenty-something self \[…\]
- ## w/ Tanisha Tekriwal

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You have to let in the world. I have to let in the world in order to get a book to the point that it’s even ready, because I really rely on my readers to help shape it.

#### Lydi Conklin
You have to let in the world. I have to let in the world in order to get a book to the point that it’s even ready, because I really rely on my readers to help shape it.
- ## w/ Miles Mikofsky

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I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom…might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping.

#### Madeline McDonnell

I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom…might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping.
- ## w/ Kristin Sanders

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The aesthetic that attracts me is trash and discarded stuff. That’s the rat seduction.

#### Elizabeth Hall
The aesthetic that attracts me is trash and discarded stuff. That’s the rat seduction.

- ## by Azeezah Adekanmbi

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Our history is in the bodies they tried to straighten, the stories they would not write, the lives they refused to archive.

#### The Women We Inherit: Ayodele Olofintuade’s ‘Swallow’ and the Reclamation of Queer Histories

Our history is in the bodies they tried to straighten, the stories they would not write, the lives they refused to archive.
- ## by Corley Miller

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We were kids together. And now we are not.

#### Elegy Already: Millennials at Middle Age

We were kids together. And now we are not.
- ## by Erin Evans

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An oral history is a unique form of nonfiction where, from the beginning, we are given no promise of truth and the editors make no claims toward a clear, ideologically-specific thesis about their subjects.

#### Mouthing Off: Oral History as an Anticapitalist Form

An oral history is a unique form of nonfiction where, from the beginning, we are given no promise of truth and the editors make no claims toward a clear, ideologically-specific thesis about their subjects.
- ## by Olena Jennings

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This essay was originally published in the Full Stop Quarterly “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities,” edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt. Subscribe at our Patreon page to get access to this and future issues, also available for purchase here. Ukrainian poetics function as a mode of defense against disappearance and a mode of remembrance in the city. I will address the \[…\]

#### The Appearance of Urban Memory in Ukrainian Poetics

This essay was originally published in the Full Stop Quarterly “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities,” edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt. Subscribe at our Patreon page to get access to this and future issues, also available for purchase here. Ukrainian poetics function as a mode of defense against disappearance and a mode of remembrance in the city. I will address the \[…\]

- ## by Michael Schapira

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The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In

#### 20 4 420: Irie Edition

The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In
- ## by The Editors

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This special issue of the FULL STOP QUARTERLY will aim to hold folklore as a prism through which to view connection, the self, and the future. . . . It will explore folklore in and as literature, as process, and as performance.

#### Call for Pitches

This special issue of the FULL STOP QUARTERLY will aim to hold folklore as a prism through which to view connection, the self, and the future. . . . It will explore folklore in and as literature, as process, and as performance.
- ## by The Editors

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In times like ours, times of fracture, depravity and upheaval—times which are really not that different than any other time on earth, except for the speed and scale at which violence is exercised—what is the value of art?

#### Call for Pitches

In times like ours, times of fracture, depravity and upheaval—times which are really not that different than any other time on earth, except for the speed and scale at which violence is exercised—what is the value of art?
- ## by Michelle Chan Schmidt

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Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”

#### Dis(-)appearing Cities or: How I Learned to Stop Walking and Love the Empire

Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”

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