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The Reset Button: On Specter Magazine

  • April 10, 2013
  • by Mensah Demary
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Currently, I have four tabs open within my browser. One of them is the submission statistics for Specter, the online literary magazine I co-founded almost two years ago. Every so often, I like to view the graphs provided by those … Continue reading

iPads & Think-pieces

  • March 25, 2013
  • by Mensah Demary
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Using my iPad Mini makes me want to buy a stylus for it. The tablet is a little larger than a Moleskine notebook, so–when I hold it in my hand, there’s an impulse to pick up a pen and doodle … Continue reading

Art is a revolutionary act: On “Things Fall Apart”

  • March 22, 2013
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I began this essay on March 5th 2013. I use the word “essay” loosely here, because it’s only a skeleton of a larger body of prose. A week ago, I re-read Things Fall Apart for the first time in 15 years; in … Continue reading

The First Six Months in NYC

  • March 20, 2013
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New York is indeed a colossus–one whose ability to break a person’s will is resisted only by some unknown forcefield or deflector shield; some people’s shields are stronger, less cracked, than others. My shield remains in its infancy, and it … Continue reading

On: Duotrope and Value

  • December 3, 2012
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The glib tweet above was my initial reaction to Duotrope’s decision to switch to a fee-based membership (FYI, Duotrope is a great website where writers can find various literary markets, as well as utilize the site’s great submission tracker tool). … Continue reading

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The great Stephen Jay Gould on creativity.

Also see E.B. White on the art of the essay.Chiwetel Ejioforsteverodneymcqueen:

Chiwetel Ejiofor is the star of McQueen’s upcoming film ‘Twelve Years A Slave’ based on the true events that happened in Solomon Northup’s life.

Here, he is photographed with Don Cheadle by Carlos Serrao for Esquire Magazine.steverodneymcqueen:

Chiwetel Ejiofor is the star of McQueen’s upcoming film ‘Twelve Years A Slave’ based on the true events that happened in Solomon Northup’s life.

Here, he is photographed with Don Cheadle by Carlos Serrao for Esquire Magazine.steverodneymcqueen:

Chiwetel Ejiofor is the star of McQueen’s upcoming film ‘Twelve Years A Slave’ based on the true events that happened in Solomon Northup’s life.

Here, he is photographed with Don Cheadle by Carlos Serrao for Esquire Magazine.steverodneymcqueen:

Chiwetel Ejiofor is the star of McQueen’s upcoming film ‘Twelve Years A Slave’ based on the true events that happened in Solomon Northup’s life.

Here, he is photographed with Don Cheadle by Carlos Serrao for Esquire Magazine.steverodneymcqueen:

Chiwetel Ejiofor is the star of McQueen’s upcoming film ‘Twelve Years A Slave’ based on the true events that happened in Solomon Northup’s life.

Here, he is photographed with Don Cheadle by Carlos Serrao for Esquire Magazine.
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a human is, in fact, an island: a piece of land once attached to a larger mass which birthed him, now unlatched from the homeland to float upon the ocean, bumping into other islands on occasion. meshing.
from "Tokyo," published by Metazen


For every love letter written up in one’s head, but never written down, is another archeological excavation for a new language. Warning: time capsules filled with etymology from the afrofuture are never ostentatious in design, nor are they fitted with homing beacons.
from "Love is Novel," published by Love Lettered

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