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Matty Davis and Ben Gould’s performance Self-Administration (from Carriage Bearance Severance). The color photograph shows a man in an all-brown outfit bent over backwards in a field of grass with just-bloomed trees in the background. The man catches himself with his right arm and extends his left arm in the air. BOMB and the list of interviewed artists are overlaid in pink.

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Poetry

Two Bettys

“regular language is a racket / once you were a very funny person / but then I lost Lord Byron / wasn't he your mother's dog more than yours”

by Anne Carson

Fiction

Names for Fireflies

In this wistful story from Gina Chung’s forthcoming collection, Green Frog, a twelve-year-old falls for their religious friend.

by Gina Chung

Fiction

Love Locks

In this story from the author of The Star Side of Bird Hill, a journalist who is supposed to be profiling her childhood frenemy but instead finds herself looking for revenge.

by Naomi Jackson

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