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Sonnet: Jenna Le, 'Guilty Pleasures'

Half of my favorite works of fanfiction are stories that anesthetize the pain produced by the original’s depiction of harsh events: the person whom the main character loved who met a tragic end is resurrected in the fan-made sequel; the star-crossed couple gets a chance to mend, and consummate, a bond that has no equal. The other half are stories that prolong the pain and also boost its magnitude…

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Using form: Sonnet: Jenna Le, 'Purses'

When our Quiz Bowl team of eighteen-year-olds snagged a berth in the finals, held in New York City, my small-town Minnesotan brain cells dizzied— at last I’d be some place that mattered. Swag was my teammate Anne’s fixation: knockoff bags peddled in Chinatown, affixed with glitzy Kate Spade labels. Anne bought a sack of six, then forgot it on the airport shuttle’s shag seats; someone swiped it…

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Ekphrastic poem: Jenna Le, 'Patti Smith, 1976'

Ekphrastic poem: Jenna Le, ‘Patti Smith, 1976’

This photo, black-and-white, where Mapplethorpe portrays his dark-mopped ex in profile, seated nude on wooden floorboards, knees drawn up to hide her breasts to hide her nipples, heated by the sideways radiator pipes on which she rests her palms, her bulging ribs a set of parallel oblique gray stripes rippling her bare white skin, unsmiling lips a short flat line– these were my first parameters,…