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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · Jun 24
Issue Fifteen is here –– five years to the day from our launch in 2020!
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 1d
“Miraculously, we still made decisions.”

Jessica Laser’s Issue Fifteen poem “Hindsight” grapples, fittingly, with seeing and with direction.

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Hindsight
Poetry
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5d
“Joe Biden and Donald Trump separately visited Texas on the same day to present their respective plans for cracking down on border crossing.”

—Gabriel Antonio Solis’s “Borderlands, Betrayed,” in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social & our #HispanicHeritageMonth reading list: www.thedriftmag.com/borderlands-...
Borderlands, Betrayed
How Hispanic Democrats Abandoned Progressivism in South Texas
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 6d
“The hero tries to drown his daughter in the bathtub.
He does it as if he knows

it’s a movie”
— T. J. Cusano

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Streaming
Poetry
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 6d
“My kitchen
is my CNN Newsroom, and the potatoes are sprouting.”
— Sasha Debevec-McKenney

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List of Programs Broadcast by CNN, Late Winter 2021
Poetry
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 6d
As the second week of the new season of Love Island Games draws to a close, Associate Editor Saliha Bayrak takes stock of the outsized sense of importance fans have begun to ascribe to Love Island contestants’ political views.

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Close reading angry political posts about Love Island
Plus two poems about TV
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Sustainable Food Trust @susfoodtrust.bsky.social · 9d
From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "The loss is measured not only in empty stomachs but in empty marketplaces, in recipes we can no longer prepare, in flavors fading from our tongues." – @thedrift-mag.bsky.social
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The Silence in My Kitchen
Before the war I was a food blogger, visiting restaurants and writing reviews to showcase Gaza’s food culture.
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 8d
In this Issue Fifteen short story, “Mormon Lake Hotshots,” @samuelmjensen.bsky.social writes about wildfires, shadowy intruders, and retribution.

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Mormon Lake Hotshots
Fiction
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 13d
In the first preview of our Issue Sixteen Dispatches on food politics, Hamada Shaqura discusses the Gazan culinary tradition assaulted by years of Israeli blockade and bombing, and his own experience cooking in the midst of genocide.

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The Silence in My Kitchen
Before the war I was a food blogger, visiting restaurants and writing reviews to showcase Gaza’s food culture.
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 14d
“A man dies while out clubbing, then watches as his body is brought to the home of a famous fashion designer.”

Read “And One Day the Work Dies,” Angelo Hernandez Sias’s essay on Roberto Bolaño, in @thedrift-mag.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth www.thedriftmag.com/and-one-day-...
And One Day the Work Dies
A man dies while out clubbing, then watches as his body is brought to the home of a famous fashion designer, who fondles it.
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Erik Baker @erikmbaker.bsky.social · 15d
In the newsletter today: two poems by Benjamin Krusling from our latest issue newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/i-still-wa...
"I still want a part of desperate living"
Two poems by Benjamin Krusling
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 15d
“that was never really meant to happen
I still want a part of desperate living
even with the jaws getting sick of general pacifism
but that’s all in an evening screening .” — Benjamin Krusling

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the impersonal and the mythic , ok , I wish
Poetry
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 15d
“I can hardly dream straight . this is the mystery
of art , it seems to wither
to death before you , conceptually ,” — Benjamin Krusling

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what kind of person can watch images going by
Poetry
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 15d
In two Issue Fifteen poems, Benjamin Krusling gives us our world in all its overwhelming urgency and then gives us a break.

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"I still want a part of desperate living"
Two poems by Benjamin Krusling
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 19d
“Many have described the president’s appeal as a cult of personality,” @topefolarin.bsky.social writes, “but his supporters’ devotion is perhaps better understood as a cult of faith — a passionate belief in his ability to bend others to his will.”

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God-Like Confidence
Donald Trump’s Cult of Faith
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 20d
See you at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, Sept. 21! We’ll be selling discounted issues and merch, including special in-person-only items.
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 22d
Congrats to Drift contributors Jordan Thomas, Natalie Shapero, and Solvej Balle on making the National Book Award longlists for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Translated Literature!

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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
On a morose version of a rom-com, by @alexpvalenti.bsky.social
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
On a try-hard nostalgia trap, by Jonah Walters
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
On a genuine multicultural love match, by @malignfiesta.bsky.social
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
On a Steinbeckian catalog of occupational abuses, by Irene Connelly
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
On Andrea Arnold’s latest film, by @harmlessfires.bsky.social
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
A psychedelic toad, a proverbial mom, Canadian “national culture,” tulip chairs, and a sludge-like scallop dish — read five Mentions from @harmlessfires.bsky.social‬, Irene Connelly, @malignfiesta.bsky.social, Jonah Walters, and @alexpvalenti.bsky.social.

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Mentions
Extremely abbreviated reviews
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
On a genuine multicultural love match, by @malignfiesta.bsky.social
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
On a Steinbeckian catalog of occupational abuses, by Irene Connelly
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The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · 26d
On Andrea Arnold’s latest film, by @harmlessfires.bsky.social
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