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The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald

Essay by Michael Coyle

    “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”: Google this quotation and you’ll find it attributed to any of a dozen people ranging from Thelonious Monk to Lou Reed, from Martin Mull to Elvis Costello to Frank Zappa. Doubtless there’s a story to be told about how this quip turned into the stuff of urban legend. But most everyone who has ever thrilled to a favorite song knows the force of it. I sure do. I’ve been writing about—or trying to write about—music since I was in college, driven by the sheer futility of it, but also by that deeply human need to communicate what is beyond words.

Poetry by Kyla Bills

  i’m trying to match kanye’s self love

undivided, attentive, uncircumstantial

pure and unadulterated self confidence

repeating “my life is dope, and i do dope shit”

until i fall asleep

Poetry by Kayla Pongrac

    she was burying her feet in the sand—looking toward the seagulls’ wings—whispering “they broke a hermit crab’s back” please—i ignore her—she ignores me too “they broke its shell and it’s paralyzed forever-don’t understand how the sea stays level”

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