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Sexonomy, or My Body as Capital

By Katie McHugh Meet the Author My creative nonfiction essay, "Sexonomy, or My Body as Capital" engages with the theme of Orbit by exploring how desire, attention, and power function as gravitational forces that organize bodies and relationships. Throughout the essay, I trace how I move in and

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INTIMATE CURRENTS

By Gary Keenan Meet the Poet My three poems examine contrary impulses and imagination's work to embrace contradictions as a means of survival and acknowledgement of the present as the place of creation. Here's my short bio: Gary Keenan lives in Tunia, Cauca, a village of

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EQUINOX (MARCH 21, 2020)

By Gary Keenan Meet the Poet My three poems examine contrary impulses and imagination's work to embrace contradictions as a means of survival and acknowledgement of the present as the place of creation. Here's my short bio: Gary Keenan lives in Tunia, Cauca, a village of

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Dark Song

By Gary Keenan Meet the Poet My three poems examine contrary impulses and imagination's work to embrace contradictions as a means of survival and acknowledgement of the present as the place of creation. Here's my short bio: Gary Keenan lives in Tunia, Cauca, a village of

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Angel of Death

By Norelle Ramlagan "Angel of Death,” depicts my original character, Imani. He’s transgender, living in the closet his entire life. After his abrupt murder, his soul remains in unrest, barred from passing on. But in his purgatorial state, Imani can finally live as himself. He had his life

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Art always orbits

By Serge Lecomte Meet the Artist Art always orbits on canvas for abyone to take a spin. Serge Lecomte was born in Belgium in 1946. He came to the States where he spent his teens in South Philly and then Brooklyn. After graduating from Tilden H. S. he joined the

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The Elevator

By Bella Panico Meet the Creator This is a play about being trapped. A play that questions what we owe each other.

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STORY OF A BOOK

By Mark Crimmins Meet the Author MY CNF PIECE IS ABOUT HOW OBJECTS CAN BE DRAWN INTO OUR ORBIT, OR US INTO THEIRS. IT EXPLORES THE RECURSIVE JOURNEY OF A BOOK THAT WAS PURCHASED AND HOW IT IS REUNITED WITH ITS OWNER, HOW ITS MISSING PART IS RETURNED AND MAKES

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CONTENTS

By Menat Allah El Attma Meet the Poet

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i hear god on the percussion and it’s wicked

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Up at the Bridge Poem

By Ariel Hobbs Meet the Poet "Up, At the Bridge" is a poem that uses dramatic, metaphorical language to provide commentary on the narrator's interpersonal dynamics and interactions with those in their social orbit. Written in the style of Sylvia Plath, the piece draws upon patterns

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April Both Perhaps in Present in Time Future

By Ken Hogarty Meet the Creator Doctor KEN HOGARTY, who lives in SF’s East Bay with his wife Sally, retired after a 46-year career as a high school teacher/principal. He also taught collegiate grad classes. Since, he has had many stories, essays, short plays, memoirs, and comedy pieces

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Everyone in my orbit

By Aubrey Klarman Meet the Director My piece “everyone in my orbit” is a collection of the voicemails of the people I love overtime, sharing stories, leaving questions, and overall, leaving behind their voices. This piece encapsulates how the power of voices, and sounds, always take us back to certain

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Gracias

By Begonya Plaza-Rosenbluth Meet the Poet Amazingly, the word "orbit" is in my poem as it references the life cycle my father journeyed, now on his way out.

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An orbit around my childhood room

By Kathryn McCrery Meet the Author This is about the gravitational pull I have to my childhood room. Back when I was applying to college, I wrote my admissions essay about my childhood bedroom and how I felt about moving out. Now that I am graduating college in May, I

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The First Star

By Caroline Hanson Meet the Author Thanks to Artemis II, space and what it has meant to me throughout my life has been weighing heavily on my mind. This piece is a reflection of that. Nonfiction. Caroline Hanson is a student at Marymount Manhattan College. She is studying English and

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Within the Stitching

By Harley Vaughn Meet the Performer This work is a look into my relationship with ballet, an artform that I grew up loving and sometimes hating. It explores the way I feel stitched to it physically and mentally. It is forever a part of my orbit. This is a multimedia

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techno melancholy

By Athena Maniatis Meet the Poet When I hear orbit I think of what has shaped me, those I revolve around and the stains left behind. My poems explore orbit in the sense of the toxic pull that is created when you make someone else your entire universe.

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Olivia is Cool Disorder

By Olivia Burrett Meet the Author My piece, "Olivia is Cool Disorder" is a personal essay that details my struggles with severe obsessive compulsive disorder. I feel that this fits the theme of "Orbit" in the sense that this disorder dictates almost everything I do, and

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Cosmology

by Sydnee Byrne Meet the Poet Sydnee Byrne is a junior BFA Acting student at Marymount Manhattan College who is incredibly passionate about storytelling. WHY IT CONNECTS TO ORBIT: I used a lot of imagery of space and philosophy while I talk about a person who won't let

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Ho Chi Minh and Beyond

By Sabrina Westbrook Ho Chi Minh and Beyond is a multimedia piece created by manipulating a photo of Saigon, Vietnam’s skyline. In March, I spent a week in the country and my definition of “orbit” shifted completely. People in countries on the other side of the world can be

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Fog Machine

By Kat Dale Meet the Poet Poetry - responds to the literal astronomical image of orbit and engages with cyclical ideas of life. Bio - Kat Dale (they/them) is a senior Creative Writing and Literature and Media double major. They are the president of The Marymount Literary Society, the

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The Sky

By Laine Derr I rarely looked beyond the park trailers lined one by one by one by two a double-wide if lucky, dreams of space, of means from a boy who wakes before the mist papers (rolled) placed in a canvas bag borne by the neck palms foretelling the day

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lo-fi love

By Laine Derr Meet the Poet Working w/in "patterns of our nature," I wanted to share the following poems: "I Still Scream," "lo-fi love," and "The Sky". I hope you enjoy. Laine Derr has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay,