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Pronouns, along with articles and prepositions, are often thought of as "junk words," but decoding #pronouns tells us a great deal about human #identity and psychology. Learn more at The Turnip Truck(s), and #submit your #art, #prose, and #poetry for Issue 7, #Codes, before Feb. 1. https://buff.ly/2F0eZa0 https://www.instagram.com/p/BsB-vCjHsvY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pvbcpjda8cwj

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Visit The Turnip Truck(s) to learn how the connections between "code" as language, book, and law have given way to the posthuman future of genetic engineering, and don't forget we are accepting submissions for our forthcoming print issue on #codes. Submit by Feb. 1. https://buff.ly/2rgqql2 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq51BRunIf8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6v07yeh3dtmp

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Decipher what's beyond the crypt at The Turnip Truck(s), and send us your code-themed #poetry #prose and #art for our forthcoming print issue. #codes https://buff.ly/2zKWwcz https://www.instagram.com/p/BqDKcC9Hk54/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bkdnwg8ku52a

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Congratulations to Turnips regular @jenhirt for the publication of her second book, Too Many Questions About Strawberries 🍓 @Tolsunbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/BqArRTonKNp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r2thl6in2hz2

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Learn the interesting history of #Election Day dress codes at The Turnip Truck(s), and while you're there, check out the submission guidelines for our forthcoming print issue, #codes. https://buff.ly/2zvF2RA #vote #vote2016 #shameless #frankgallagher #dresscode #freespeech #electioneering https://www.instagram.com/p/BpxSgsQHrAh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12itsybtx52xh

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The Turnip Truck(s) is now accepting #submissions for our seventh issue, #Codes. #writers #artists #poets #critics #fiction #nonfiction https://www.instagram.com/p/BpslhB4nM5P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=186tr6mjkpxci

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Congratulations to Jeff P. Jones for his award-winning collection Bloodshot Stories. Read an excerpt of his collection in The Turnip Truck(s) destruction issue: https://buff.ly/2z1fkUOe https://www.instagram.com/p/BphjkemHZV2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lol31213fw3o

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Congratulations to Turnips contributor @heatherjuneg for her beautiful book, Her Mouth As Souvenir. If you can’t wait for your copy, you can get a taste of her work in The Turnip Truck(s) road issue: https://buff.ly/2D2kUuc. https://www.instagram.com/p/BpSPRUnnMyD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qvj0qt8oq41r

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In “Going to See the Body,” @JenHirt explores the human fascination with dead bodies and shows us that going to see a body—whether we look or not—is a way to help us write the story of our own lives. Read her essay in The Turnip Truck(s) #bodies issue: https://buff.ly/2PROghp https://www.instagram.com/p/BowlD1ZnclS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vd2eqf8owsfx

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Vivian Wagner’s poem “First Dive” connects the living with the dying through the image of the oxygen tank, while “Conversing” confronts death through the mind more so than the body. Her poems offer a sense of peaceful inevitability in regard to the body’s ultimate fate, an inevitability that only comes for most humans, at the end, hence Wagner’s epigraph. Read both poems in The Turnip Truck(s) #bodies issue. https://buff.ly/2PROghp https://www.instagram.com/p/BouOwEUHLC6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7nql0lxd07hu

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In “Grandma’s Corpse,” Charles Halsted journeys into the body with a clinical perspective, and while he learns anatomy, he also learns about the mystery of life, which is kept secret in the ashes the corpse becomes. Read his work in The Turnip Truck(s) #bodies issue: https://buff.ly/2PROghp https://www.instagram.com/p/Bot90dKHpFI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ejd8vfvwi49e

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Siham Karami musically unites the broken body in “Brokedown Vertabrae Blues.” She writes, “but oh we can’t cement these crumbs decalcified / the much of vertebrae gone sour awry.” Her poem “Convalescence” “[folds] us within / hours inhibited by trays / of medication” but leaves us with “half-smiles in our blood,” appreciating the body’s ability to heal and the mind’s ability to recover. Read her poems in The Turnip Truck(s) #bodies issue. https://buff.ly/2PROghp https://www.instagram.com/p/Bosag0lHTRN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ii0yeaska4cy

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In “False Positives,” John Modern explores the way researchers, beginning in the early twentieth century, attempted to find, through #electroencephalography, a kind of Ur-language of the human which is “in the human, from the human, but not necessarily of the human.” What surfaces in Modern’s deeply suggestive essay is that human measurers (scientists) can be easily fooled by their objects of study (artifacts). Read his essay in The Turnip Truck(s) #bodies issue. https://buff.ly/2PROghp https://www.instagram.com/p/BorrRvLnEZd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=135vi8y65j7kz

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Listen to Dépouille's "Marks" and "Heartbeat Radio" at The Turnip Truck(s): https://buff.ly/2zGsZlu #bodies @depouilleart #music https://www.instagram.com/p/BocbslzHjHD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2majgbawqfu0

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Jack Balas's work shows the various dynamics involved in male aesthetic beauty. View his work and read/listen to his interview in The Turnip Truck(s) #bodies issue. https://buff.ly/2zGuz7a @jack_balas_artist https://www.instagram.com/p/BoZObzCHPPa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fih1311bh2iy

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Read "Noses" by @jonathanminila, translated by @will_stockton , in The Turnip Truck(s) #bodies issue. https://buff.ly/2PROghp https://www.instagram.com/p/BoW5pWDHrAa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10v6oo2ip6l2l

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Claiborne Rice’s poem “All You Simply Just” is constructed from food packaging ephemera and draws attention to what might be called the algorithmic turn. The phrase “thaw and serve” acts as the algorithmic catalyst and shows how these “formulas” are replete with reified values, which are available through “thaw and serve." Read the entire poem in The Turnip Truck(s) #bodies issue. https://buff.ly/2PROghp https://www.instagram.com/p/BoO_7ZxHXqi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kmlg2g1a3mpb