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Author: Gregg Murray
Why Muse/A Pays Its Writers
But I’m just going to set this modest opinion here. I think more money should be changing hands at the fair.
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Dr. Steen Joins Real Pants & Muse/A
These poetry pants are real, and they fit good. Mensch John Steen is joining the pants squad as an assistant editor, and we are DELIGHTED. Check his bio: John Steen is an English teacher at The Galloway School in Atlanta, GA, and the author of Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry: This Feeling of Exaltation, which is out this summer from Bloomsbury. He’s a North Carolina native with a B.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill, and earned a Ph.D. from Emory, which brought him to Atlanta, where he lives now. His reviews can be found in the Kenyon Review Online, H_NGM_N, Wave Composition, and the North Carolina Literary...
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Anna Sandy Joins Muse/A
Anna recently married British nobleman Jacoby Elrod of Smyrna.
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12 Predictions for the Year 2157
The impoverished will share robo-bodies in kibbutzim. They will be the final inhabitants of the Earthzone.
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How Lok’d Out Are You on “Regulators”?
Warren’s wealth consists of which of the following:
1. An employer-sponsored 401k.
2. A first pressing 7″ of the Super Bowl Shuffle signed by William “the Refrigerator” Perry.
3. His rings, Rolex.
4. Equity from his primary residence.
Square Dancing, A Mather of Life & Death
‘Tis the season to swing one’s partner round and round. And yet everywhere we see dance floors occupied by citizens who can hardly stand up straight. Gone are the days of Fezziwig, Ebenezer Scrooge’s erstwhile boss. Gone the happy days of Christmas Past. Consider the American wedding reception, a ritual in which people drink themselves into malware and stumble onto the hardwood floors of middle school gymnasiums—or the lobbies of swank hotels, as money variously allows. That said, for richer or poorer, square dancing has given way to six or eight easily imitable moves that one can execute under...
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Ranking the English Translations of Giorgio Agamben
And it doesn’t get more relevant than detailing how problematic instances of the ‘exception’ led to the rise of the Third Reich.
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Best and Worst Things I Read in 2017
Vance’s very, very poorly written book on Appalachia would have been a better book if I’d lit on fire the second it arrived.
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Master of the Segway
What is it really, this puzzling device, the segway? You lean forward and it moves forward. But why? If you are on something with wheels, do not lean forward. Physics dictates not doing that. It is plain to see that these traveling ticket counters operate by dark magic. The segway, a vessel of tourism, is designed not to be stationary; two wheels beneath a platform are in constant tilt. This is an unstable, Heraclitian gesture of not staying in the same place. It is an object built explicitly for the indigenous suburbanite to explore the city around which they...
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Dr. Finck Joins Muse/A
Atlanta’s Shannon Finck has joined Muse/A Journal as an assistant editor. Shannon is now part of a team that includes Anya Vostrova, Simona Chitescu Weik, Shamar Hill, and Taylor D’Amico. Here’s a little bit about Shannon, straight from the source’s mouth (see what I did there?): I am a limited-term assistant professor of English and composition at the University of West Georgia. I earned my Ph.D. in twentieth-century American literature with a secondary emphasis in global postmodern and contemporary literatures at Georgia State University in 2014. I also hold an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction and narrative poetry from Georgia College (GCSU) in Flannery O’Connor’s hometown...
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Muse/A Pushcart Nominations
While y’all were eating fried poultry at Bantam & Biddy, I was doing nominations for the Pushcart this year. No, no, don’t click the links yet. I’m gonna make a few comments right here and then you can click ’em. Melissa /FREDERICK, “Watching Nirvana While Sick in Bed” With the lights out, this poem is less dangerous. The poem’s power chord consonants are resonant, redolent of grunge and sampling acid. Takes me back to when I was cool. And adventurous and angry. Emily /MYRICK, “Even Silence” I feel like an isosceles triangle when I read this, suddenly conscious of...
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Muse/A Partners with Publishing Genius
When the server gets here, order a salad. You’re gonna want to save some room for this. Not to mix too many metaphors, but slick-haired new kid Muse /A Journal is teaming up with the practically tween-aged Publishing Genius. (I’ll save you the #promposal.) From this partnership, expect a Muse /P (Publishing /A?!) Book Contest, a rejuvenated Real Pants, workshop classes, design collabs, and enough cross-posting to make your head spin like a WH presser. Okay, but what is Muse /A? Literary journal Muse /A is a style-centred ode to lyrical language, a thrice yearly publication, of which one is print. Publishing Genius,...
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The Beautiful Shirts of Jay Gatsby and Lance Armstrong
“To be honest, Oprah” he said robotically, “we sued so many people.” It is perhaps this inability to confront a reality outside of cycling that makes Armstrong the ideal cyclist.
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Watermelon on a Sunny Day
Nothing but no-names and repeats.
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GOLDFISH: A LYRIC ESSAY (WITH RANKINGS)
How many toothsome crackers are wasted each year on these doddering monkeys?
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CHEEZ-ITS: A LYRIC ESSAY (WITH RANKINGS)
The thing with Cheez-Its, you can eat too many, call your Uncle Ralph on the big white telephone, and still pick up another box at Kroger on the way home.
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The Donald Trump Readymade
Whether consciously or not, SNL’s Palin readymade was a legitimate political weapon. SNL’s Trump was not.
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Hot Preview of Muse /A 1.2
We’re aflame at Muse /A Journal (pronounced ‘myoo-zay’) over the hearty relevance and lyrical power of the art in issue two, so we’re sharing this preview with y’all (pronounced ‘yawl’). After launching issue one by myself at last year’s AWP (‘hot’ ‘garbage’), I’ve been fortunate to add two genre editors in Marissa Hewatt (Poetry) and Anya Vostrova Chambers (Lyric Essay). Justin Fredericksen has also been instrumental in helping us establish a web presence. We can be found at museajournal.com. Once Anya sat the team down with the artwork of Richard Selesnick & Nicolas Kahn, issue two started to really...
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Instagrammer-in-Residence: Justin Tornow
[Editor’s note: The AMAZING] Justin Tornow is a North Carolina native, currently located in Durham, NC. She is the artistic director of COMPANY, a producer of the local artist series PROMPTS, and a co-founder and -organizer with Durham Independent Dance Artists (DIDA.) She collaborates regularly with visual artist Heather Gordon and musicians Matthew McClure and Lee Weisert on new and touring projects. Justin’s work has been presented by the Sax Open Festival in Strasbourg, France, UGA-Cortona in Cortona, Italy, Triangle Dance Project, GSO Fringe Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival, CoolNY Festival, 2012 Philly Fringe, and the NC Dance Festival (among others.)...
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