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Jake Orbison

Jake Orbison is a writer from New York. His work also appears in Ambit, the Boston Review, poets.org, and elsewhere.



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Everything I’m writing has been short recently I don’t like to write endings I’m bad at them   Endings must have a stake in what happened, and I’ve never been interested in what happened   Where have we been? Endings ask Where must we go from here? They answer   Some people, lucky ones, can only write endings— as if forever in state of taking stock and gazing out,   as if to fall, to fear, these things could go on indefinitely, as if shadow were just another word for shade
Endings

Prize Entry

November 2017

Jake Orbison


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May 2016

Two Poems

Sam Buchan-Watts

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May 2016

The Dentist’s Chair       I dreamt of the dentist’s chair, that it wore a smart pair of...

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June 2013

What We Did After We Lost 100 Years' Wealth in 24 Months

Agri Ismaïl

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June 2013

‘World finance had, in 2008, a near-death experience.’   The words belong to a partner of a renowned international...

feature

February 2015

Greece and the Poetics of Crisis

Joshua Barley

feature

February 2015

On the Aegean island of Skyros, in the Carnival period immediately preceding Lent, a more ancient ritual takes place....

 

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