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Celebrating 20 Years of Antioch’s MFA in Creative Writing

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Landscapes and Animals

by Heather Hewson

Heather Hewson, Lion, 2017, digital

Lion, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Book of Dead Birds, excerpt

by Gayle Brandeis

Highway 111, as I come to know it, seems appropriately numbered–a row of three thin digits, each one almost invisible, spare and pale as the landscape it cuts through. Scattered patches of white–salt, I guess—gleam dully from the dirt like snow. Even the sky seems white, as if the blue had been taken by geese flying south, or, more likely, burned blank by the relentless sun. I feel incredibly conspicuous in my shiny green car. The only other color along this stretch of the road comes from the occasional string of boxcars stopped on the Southern Pacific railway. The trains are pretty muted, too—dusty wine, dirty mustard, black sandstormed down to gray…

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After Striking a Fixed Object

by LaToya Jordan

I was jerked awake by the swerving of the car as it raced towards the median. I remember the sound of hands, my aunt’s hands; she pounded the steering wheel trying to make it stop spinning, make the car stop moving. I screamed, we all screamed. I sucked my teeth, said this isn’t happening, can’t …

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Poem My Mother Doesn’t Want Right Now

by F. Douglas Brown

my mother down the hall fast like a train
or a bus blurting away her sprint turned

to tears:—and then into drops
of shit a trail of shit and she…

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The Promise of Purpose

by Arielle Silver

When I encountered Jung’s description of feminist pedagogy—community-based, attentive to process, and valuing of each person’s experience and expertise—I recognized the principles by which I sought to lead…

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Hanoi, Silences

by Valentine Goby, translated by Christine Buckley

At night, Hanoi is not a city. It may have changed in the last two years, but in 1995, the night was little floating lights reflected on the ground, which you felt under foot without really being able to distinguish them; no streetlights, or if so, rare and minimal. Faces gilded by the flames, hunched over something you couldn’t see…

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2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. We are commemorating this occasion with a special edition of our journal.

Lunch Ticket Special: Celebrating 20 Years of Antioch’s MFA in Creative Writing features new and previously published works by Antioch MFA alumni.

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A Word from the Editor

Social justice can have an expansive or narrow focus. It can emanate from a handful of the like-minded, or a community—or even a country. It can encompass two billion Facebook users or the entire global community. On a daily basis, we telescope from the personal to the interpersonal, our friendships and peers, and then outwards to the struggles of communities, societal ills, or global epidemics. These spheres often clash…

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