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Stephanie Barbé Hammer

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7 time Pushcart Prize nominee, Stephanie Barbé Hammer wrote her first poem when she was 6 and had just finished The Cat In The Hat. She has been a writer ever since. But first she became a professor and moved to the West Coast. She wrote scholarly articles and research books, before finally attempting to publish her creative writing in her mid 40's. Since then she has published short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a bunch of good places including, The Bellevue Literary Review, Pearl, NYCBigCityLit, CRATE, Hole In the Head, and the Hayden’s Ferry Review. She is currently the author of a prose poem chapbook prose poem chapbook _Sex with Buildings_ (Dancing Girl Press), the full length poetry collection _How Formal?_ (Spout Hill Press), th ...more

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	How Formal? 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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This is the perfect time to read and write the unreal

People tell stories when things become unbearable. Especially then. Fiction is our way of envisaging the worst, for sure. But it is also our way of envisaging the best, the most out of the box-est, the beautiful thing that you never even dreamed of. It is what we do, as writers, and it is — these days — what we must do. We must imagine things otherwise.

I am asking myself all the time these days,

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The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto

by Daniel Boyarin

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Chokehold: Policing Black Men

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Protégée (Freedom Bound, #1)

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“I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure

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“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

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“He doesn’t want to see that joy, that freedom, come crashing down, yet again, among the ruins of its own euphoric irresponsibility.”
― Murray Bookchin, The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

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“We must consciously create our own world, not according to mindless customs and destructive prejudices, but according to the canons of reason, reflection, and discourse that uniquely belong to our own species.”
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“He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him.”
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