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Author Archives: Cassandra de Alba

There is no need to stay forever in the country of self-denial when the dead would want us to feast.

November 20, 2018by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

“God threatens to kick all the Mexicans out of heaven si no paran con las pendejadas.” I never asked my father if he believed in heaven. I assume he must […]

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Pushcart Nominations!!!

December 2, 2016by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

pizza pi press is thrilled to present our pushcart prize nominations for this year, including FOUR poems from the upcoming issue of maps for teeth!!!! (dropping in a few weeks!) […]

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2016 Best of the Net Nominees!

October 9, 2016by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

Hi friends! We’re a little behind in announcing this since we’ve been hard at work reading your awesome Hella Whales submissions and launching the preorder campaign for Taylor Steele’s amazing […]

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Issue #3 // INSIDE VOICE // Anna Meister

November 3, 2015by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

Cry on the wine-stained couch, cat claw & tooth torn. Your face salted as a state road after an ice storm. Skin like paper held to light. You stay so […]

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Issue #3 // MEMORY OF HALF-TRUTHS // Anna Meister

November 3, 2015by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

In the station, I bought a coffee just to keep my hands warm & placed my head on your shoulder in a different way than I could before we’d slept […]

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Issue #3 // HATING THY NEIGHBOR // Anna Meister

November 3, 2015by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

Marty, an old woman, lived next door with manicured rose bushes & breasts like bags of rice & no visitors ever & one dead son. Once, she called the weed […]

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Issue #3 // REASONS WHY // Anna Meister

November 3, 2015by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

voice like crackling embers / legs that once worked / hair & fat face in old pictures on the staircase / how you are my brother there / years measured […]

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Issue #3 // I Tell My Therapist (It Wasn’t All That Bad) // Paige Chaplin

November 2, 2015by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

My mother likes to garden, but not enough to call herself a gardener. There was this one day in summer—back when I could call New Jersey home—she told me she […]

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Issue #3 // Clean // Paige Chaplin

November 2, 2015by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

The Jersey shore house, your grandparents before the bad knees, the kites, the swollen tide. You had those perfect ringlets you eventually grew out of. Your brother had won golf […]

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Issue #3 // Em // Melissa Newman-Evans

October 30, 2015by Cassandra de Alba Leave a comment

There is something that is true about everyone in this room. No matter who you are or where you come from, You were once a child. Three feet tall and […]

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