BURN (it all down) PILE: the presidents' day edition.

                        The sky will never be an ocean, 

no matter how often you write it that way. 

Georgia Dennison, "Mount Saint Helens—"

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Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be in Vain - The New York Times

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Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild by Kathy Fish in the JellyfishReview.

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Mount Saint Helens-- /// by Georgia Dennison - Pacifica Literary Review

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Open Carry by Rebecca Starks | Rattle: Poetry

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Emma Gonzalez of Douglas High Calls Out Trump, Politicians & NRA.

Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: 'We call BS' - CNN

Calling B.S. in Parkland, Florida | The New Yorker

As a teacher, shooter drills were bad. Being expected to die for my students was terrifying. - Vox

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What's Missing From the Gun Debate - POLITICO Magazine

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Fuck you, I like guns.

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 History | SmokeLong Quarterly

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Kim Addonizio in diode.
"To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall"

 Be a Pal, My Dudes - Erika Hall - Medium

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Shit Boyfriends Say - Electric Literature

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Elementary by Monet Patrice Thomas in the JellyfishReview.

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 Roxane Gay on clothes in the workplace: 'I have never been good at dressing like a woman' | Life and style | The Guardian

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 Arizona legislator kills bill to give inmates free pads, tampons

 To Make Prisons "Safer," Some Are Banning . . . Books - The New York Times

 ACLU Reverses Prison Bans on The New Jim Crow - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

 Michigan prisoner turned celebrated author faces bill for his incarceration | US news | The Guardian

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Why the Right Wing Is So Interested in Narrowing Down Education into 'Skills' | Alternet

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 Menstruation

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Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair - Brain Pickings

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The American Presidency

 What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do by Parneshia Jones - Poems | poets.org

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 On Arriving At This Novel "About" Mental Illness | Tin House

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We Need to Amplify Voices that Interrogate Power | Literary Hub

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Survival Town, USA by Stephanie Lane Sutton | BWR