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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · 4d

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · 17d

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Sep 16

We spoke with Raphael Badagliacca, an author featured in Consequence Forum’s Journal 17.1, about what the organization means to him. Head to consequenceforum.org/journals to read his work.

Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Aug 24

We spoke to Peter McKinney, an author featured in Consequence Forum’s Journal 17.1, about knowing when his pieces are truly finished. Head to consequenceforum.org/journals to read his work.

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Aug 15

Inhabiting the rich borderland between poetry and prose, these stories combine compression and narrative in a form that, author Dana Wall says, “effectively captures the compressed intensity of war.”
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Flash! Four Works of Micro-Fiction (with audio recordings)

Inhabiting the rich borderland between poetry and prose, these stories combine compression and narrative in a form that, author Dana Wall says, “effectively captures the compressed intensity of war.”

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Aug 6

By Yahia Lababidi (@ysl.bsky.social‬). "Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai write from fractured geographies: two sides of a wound too deep for slogans."

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The Art of Peace: On Amichai, Darwish, and the Poetic Imagination

By Yahia Lababidi. "Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai write from fractured geographies: two sides of a wound too deep for slogans."

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Aug 1

The 1932 Bonus Army: when war veterans protesting for better benefits faced a military backlash. By J.G.P. MacAdam

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The Original “Occupy DC” Movement

The 1932 Bonus Army: when war veterans protesting for better benefits faced a military backlash. By J.G.P. MacAdam

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 30

Three books to help wrap your head around the true span of American military hegemony. By J.G.P. MacAdam.

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Empire State of Mind

Three books to help wrap your head around the true span of American military hegemony. By J.G.P. MacAdam.

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 29

🎉🎉 On Sunday, August 10, at 3 pm, Consequence Forum's Contributing Editor Martha Collins will be awarded the New England Poetry Club’s Golden Rose Award, one of the nation’s oldest literary prizes.

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Congrats, Martha!

Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 26

Nonfiction by James J. Kirschke. “Well, now that I am blind, when I go out to supper with my wife and children, the waiter or waitress always asks my wife . . . what I would like to eat."

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I Remember Buddy

Nonfiction by James J. Kirschke. “Well, now that I am blind, when I go out to supper with my wife and children, the waiter or waitress always asks my wife . . . what I would like to eat."

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 23

A new prose workshop!

Bringing the Receipts: Using Personal Documents as Prompts to Write about the Past

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 20

A poem by Vaughn Hayes that imagines a convincing world for the people found in a photograph, telling us of their lives and sacrifices, and ends on the hope for someone "to say something soft."

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Found familial photograph

A poem by Vaughn Hayes that imagines a convincing world for the people found in a photograph, telling us of their lives and sacrifices, and ends on the hope for someone "to say something soft."

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 18

Writing Sci-Fi War Stories

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 16

An interview by C. J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) with Taiwanese artist Chang Ping-Cheng (張秉正). "Although my imagery draws from the generation of my father, I’m not simply telling their stories."

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Father, A Portrait in Wartime

An interview by C. J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) with Taiwanese artist Chang Ping-Cheng (張秉正). "Although my imagery draws from the generation of my father, I’m not simply telling their stories."

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 14

New Poetry Workshop: The Grammar of History, the Syntax of War

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 11

A Featured Review by Alice Stephens. "As a Korean adoptee . . . the film deeply resonated with me in its depiction of the calamitous, and yet hidden, trauma of family separation."

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Film Review: Defectors by Hyun kyung Kim

A Featured Review by Alice Stephens. "As a Korean adoptee . . . the film deeply resonated with me in its depiction of the calamitous, and yet hidden, trauma of family separation."

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 9

By poet Gunilla T. Kester. "Yet the most central theme in his collected oeuvre, perhaps, is his ongoing dialogue, not to say, argument with G-d."

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Yehuda Amichai: A Perspective (Part 2)

By poet Gunilla T. Kester. "Yet the most central theme in his collected oeuvre, perhaps, is his ongoing dialogue, not to say, argument with G-d."

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fiction by Michelle R. Brady @bradymicheller.bsky.social. “Lucifer literally means light bearing. It’s the morning star. Maybe that’s why. You know?”

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Jupiter Begging

Fiction by Michelle R. Brady. “Lucifer literally means light bearing. It’s the morning star. Maybe that’s why. You know?”

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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social · Jul 4

A personal essay about testing the limits of trauma from Jgp MacAdam

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On Fireworks & Lucky Stars

A personal essay about testing the limits of trauma from J.G.P. MacAdam

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