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In our Weekly Top 5: * Propagate language, preserve culture @noemamag.com * Hip-hop hooch hustles (Taste) * Grieving a landscape lost @salvationsouth.com * A gutsy take on indigestion @vqr.bsky.social * All the feels for the forums @thefence.bsky.social longreads.com/2025/02/28/t...

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I wrote a small thing for @vqr.bsky.social to intro their weekly featured poem: Larry Levis' stunning "Elegy for Poe With the Music of A Carnival Inside It." I was so fortunate to have known Larry just a bit as a mentor in RVA in the mid-90s & am so grateful for his poems. mailchi.mp/virginia/an-...

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"Perhaps the wry twist in Twain’s output came from a similar torque in his guts. A friend once called my prose voice 'acidic.' With an iron stomach, might I read less bitter?" Will Boast for @vqr.bsky.social: longreads.com/2025/02/27/f...

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Follow Duke Ellington on his journey to bring jazz to Mars in Michael D. Kennedy’s comic from our Winter issue: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/...

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Read “What Did the Road Do?,” new poetry from Susan Eisenberg in our Winter issue: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/...

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The great @miriamjayaratna.bsky.social in VQR!

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Read "How to Win Friends and Horrify People," a #VQRTrueStory by @miriamjayaratna.bsky.social: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/...

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“The gastrointestinal agonies of writers, it turns out, forms practically its own canon, one that dates back almost to the beginning of Western science’s attempts to understand the digestive tract.” Read “From the Gut,” an essay by Will Boast in our Winter issue: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/...

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A curmudgeonly professor takes on a young research assistant named Ollie and finds there is more to him than he first assumed. Read “The Silent Woman,” new fiction by Paul Theroux in our Winter issue: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/...

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Such an interesting read on the experience of being a living kidney donor.

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2025 might seem like a very weird time to resolve to spend MORE time on social media, but life circumstances put me on relative hiatus back in 2022, and I miss y'all's voices. Kicking off by sharing an essay, "I Am Cat Lady," which I published in VQR late last year: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/be...

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Malèmbe & Ndewo. After much anticipation, my lyric essay, “Water-Light,” concerning the Nzadi, Mississippi, & other waterbodies that have shaped & reshaped my life is finally here for you to wonder alongside. 🪡🧵 Full poem: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/...

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I've never written a poem as an adult before. I guess some things just demand line breaks. Thanks to @vqr.bsky.social for having me. www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/...

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So delighted to see this, and to have been able to contribute to @vqr.bsky.social's spring issue on a topic near and dear to my heart! As the United States steps back from its climate commitments, you can read more from its award-winning coverage here: www.vqronline.org/spring-2024/...

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Pleased to have 5 poems from ATRIA in the new @vqr.bsky.social www.vqronline.org/online/poetry

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Our Winter issue is online today, featuring reporting by Lauren Markham, essays from Will Boast and @kellymcmasters.bsky.social , fiction from Paul Theroux, a comic from Michael D. Kennedy, Cig Harvey’s color manifesto, poetry by @ds-waldman.bsky.social, and more! www.vqronline.org/winter-2024

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VQR is thrilled to be a finalist for this year's National Magazine Award in General Excellence. Explore our issue archive, including last year's three nominated issues: www.vqronline.org/issues

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Read "Aubade with Redwood," poetry by Tess Taylor in our Summer 2020 issue: www.vqronline.org/summer-2020/...

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“He was compelled by what came after the flames and the fury — after the wind, the heat, the smoke plume died out,” writes Lizzie Johnsonn writes in her introduction to Kris Graves's photos reading the scars of climate change, from our Winter 2022 issue: www.vqronline.org/photography/...

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In our Summer 1968 issue, VQR published Isaac Asimov’s review of The Double Helix by James Watson. Read more about Asimov's correspondence with VQR Editor Charlotte Kohler. #100YearsofVQR www.vqronline.org/vqr-vault-co...

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In “The Money Islands,” a photo portfolio documenting sand extraction in the Maldives, Mathias Depardon draws attention to the economy of sand as a rapidly depleting resource. Read Emmanuel Iduma’s introduction and see more of Depardon’s photographs: www.vqronline.org/spring-2024/...

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this is so incredibly delightful!! "Cats sense grief, a friend tells me, and move toward it." I am Cat Lady, by Sandra Beasley, in @vqr.bsky.social:

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Read Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh (@ArtichokeHeart.bsky.social)’s new poem “Decadence: A Mapping / Jishin-no-ben” from our Fall issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/po...

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“The door opened. This time the gurney held Nicky, small in the large expanse, looking as if the air had been flattened out of him. He did not look peaceful. He looked shattered.” Read “The Operation,” fiction by Susan Minot from our 2024 Fiction issue: www.vqronline.org/fiction-2024...

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Read “My Mother’s Handwritten Grocery Lists,” new poetry from Lauren Aliza Green in our Fall 2024 issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/po...

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Our Top 5: - Reclaiming soil—and one's story @bittersouth.bsky.social - Country collectors @outsidemag.bsky.social - The rise of Big Headlight @the-ringer.bsky.social - How saints are made @theguardian.com - An alphabetical ode to cats @vqr.bsky.social longreads.com/2024/12/06/t...

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Give the gift of VQR! Get 50 percent off subscriptions or single issues with the code HOLIDAY at our online store: www.vqronline.org/store

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“The trip to Kirk Creek was our homecoming, our pilgrimage (though devoid of any of that ‘Catholic shit,’ which is a direct quote from one of our dads).” Read Claudia Sims Black’s short story “Kirk Creek,” from our biennial fiction issue: www.vqronline.org/fiction-2024...

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“One thing I’ve learned over decades of covering the Arctic is that this is a uniquely problematic environment in which to wage war…before any shooting starts, the greatest threat you’ll face is the weather.” Louie Palu’s essay & photo portfolio from the Arctic: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/po...

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VQR's poetry newsletter draws from nearly one hundred years of poetry in the magazine’s pages. Subscribe today! eepurl.com/ilfAh1

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"Cats sense grief, a friend tells me, and move toward it." Sandra Beasley for @vqr.bsky.social #longreads www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/be...

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“In the face of all this time-distress, I try to keep foremost in mind that this world is full of beautiful and true things rather than reasons to watch the clock and become anxious.” Read more from Carlo Rotella’s essay “A Tempo,” new in our Fall issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/es...

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Give the gift of VQR! Get 50 percent off subscriptions or single issues with the code HOLIDAY at our online store: www.vqronline.org/store

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“Grief is a shell game. The first time I tried to write about not having children, someone put forward the specter of the unbearable grief I would experience if I did not.” Read Sandra Beasley’s “I Am Cat Lady,” from our Songs of Myself issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/be...

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“Gratitude can easily devolve into little more than self-congratulation at one’s (presumably merited) good fortune. If you’re not careful, ‘I’m so grateful’ can start to sound like ‘I’m so great.’” Garret Keizer’s reflections on gratitude: www.vqronline.org/becoming-col...

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What does one do when confronted with a downpour of gratitude too heavy to carry? Reach for an umbrella? Or dance? As we launch ourselves into the season of #gratitude & #giving, sharing my @vqr.bsky.social essay on #friendship, #appliedphilosophy & #organdonation.

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Give the gift of VQR! Get 50 percent off subscriptions or single issues with the code HOLIDAY at our online store: www.vqronline.org/store

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“I felt in my gut the stubborn, familiar mix of lust and remorse that I had when I thought of her in passing. Did she ever think of me too? What remained of her memory of me?” Read “Japanese Denim,” a story by Juli Min from our biennial Fiction issue: www.vqronline.org/fiction-2024...

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“Memories of Distant Mountains” is “a testament to how the writer had freed the painter from his bondage and claimed him as his equal, his brother,” writes Merve Emre in her introduction to Orhan Pamuk’s portfolio of illustrated notebooks: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/ar...

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“Gratitude can easily devolve into little more than self-congratulation at one’s (presumably merited) good fortune. If you’re not careful, ‘I’m so grateful’ can start to sound like ‘I’m so great.’” Garret Keizer’s reflections on gratitude: www.vqronline.org/becoming-col...

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Read “I Take You Out,” new poetry by Lauren Aliza Green in our Fall 2024 issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/po...

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'To be a Black person in rural Europe is to transcend national and class barriers that often restrict African-descended people’s freedom of movement...'

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“Fragility seems to be the theme of this expanse of our lives, and maybe the rest of our lives. I hope Erin and I can keep our needs for care enough out of synch that we can always tend to each other.” Read more from Andrew Hudgins’s memoir “Caregiver Blues”: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/me...

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Read “Nothing to Nine and Back,” a memoir by Wilson Sims on his experience at Kamp K-Kountry and being at the mercy of every adult: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/me...

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There it is! I just got my copy of @vqr.bsky.social, too, and looking forward to soaking it in, breathing in the smell of ink on paper, reading the words of fellow...what are we? Sharlettes? :) And there's a bonus one of us shaping my story, including words she wrote in our class, oh-so-long ago.

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How about that? New issue of @vqr.bsky.social in the mail featuring essays by not one but two former students who became good friends, Sarah Khatry & @meerasub.bsky.social, plus poetry by Forrest Gander, who tho he surely doesn’t remember it bought me my first 10 speed bike about 40 years ago.

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Read Bethanne Patrick’s new essay “Time Out of Time” on the personal battles of an army wife in Berlin, new in our Fall 2024 issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/me...

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“In the face of all this time-distress, I try to keep foremost in mind that this world is full of beautiful and true things rather than reasons to watch the clock and become anxious.” Read more from Carlo Rotella’s essay “A Tempo,” new in our Fall issue: www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/es...

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“One thing I’ve learned over decades of covering the Arctic is that this is a uniquely problematic environment in which to wage war…before any shooting starts, the greatest threat you’ll face is the weather.” Read Louie Palu’s essay and photo portfolio from the Arctic:

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