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Elizabethton, Tennessee, 1929 When wages sank and conditions became intolerable, women led a strike of the Glanzstoff Textile Mill. While their menfolk’s anger often erupted in violence, women used laughter and bold defiance of conventional feminine behavior as weapons against a bewildered National Guard, which was made up of their neighbors until backup was called. [...]

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Ko’ dóó łeeschch’iih [Fire and Ashes The red off the far ridge, an eating dragon, slow ______coming down the valley —my mom’s imagination over the phone, ______a quarter-mile of cars ahead. No one has stopped, on their way north or south, to capture Hotshots turning the beast to smolder. Somewhere out in the burn, under [...]

This for dg okpik ____________________________________________ Layli Long Soldier holds a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is currently pursuing her MFA at Bard College. She resides in Tsaile, AZ on the Navajo Nation with her husband and daughter and is an adjunct faculty member at Diné College. Her first [...]

____________________________________________ Alina Gregorian‘s poems have been published in Sink Review, Boston Review, GlitterPony, and other journals. She curates a video poetry reading series at the Huffington Post, co-curates Triptych Readings, and co-edits the collaboration journal Bridge. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is here.

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THE ICE :“What are you dreaming of?” :“The ice.” :“But you are on the ice.” :“I am thinking of the ice I will be on.” :“We are standing on the ice right now, facing each other. We are on the ice touching lips, we are squinting out at sails that move as if on a [...]