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Address to The New School Graduating 2020 Class from Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin will be giving this speech on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.
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I have trouble walking through doorways. I never get it right, I’m close, but always seem to catch a shoulder, a forearm, a hip on the frame. I forget that I am someone who never quite gets it right, until I find the mysterious bruises on my body and remember. As a child I used to walk down a city block and then abruptly make a right turn and walk into the wall of a building.
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Address to The New School Graduating 2020 Class from Rachel B. Neumann (TNS ’01)
Rachel B. Neumann will read and discuss her speech on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.
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Dear Writers,
If, when I call you “writers” you don’t wince or duck your head or look behind you to see who I am talking to, then congratulations, you are cooked enough and ready to go out in the world. Only one other thing is required of you now and — unlike in some vocations, where it takes some work to figure out what to do —as a writer,
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Commencement 2020 with LIT Magazine
Welcome to LIT’s first ever virtual commencement and graduation party!
Click here on May 19th at 7PM to join.We have every reason to be thankful this graduation season. Lives have been changed, friendships made, goals achieved, and opportunities re-envisioned. Commencement speeches by Lara Love Hardin and Rachel B. Neumann will inspire you to reshape your story and to find strength in the struggles ahead, and Kristen Roupenian will offer her take on how to pursue life and success after the MFA, and how to navigate the digital world.
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TNS After Hours April Reading
Come one, come all, to the first virtual After Hours reading of the season! Hosted by Alex Vara, and moderated by LIT’s Virginia Valenzuela. Grab a cocktail, put on some mascara (or pants), and pretend like you’re in the East Village this Friday, listening to the talents of:
Dylan Blair Bass
Gina Chung
Katie Devine
Victoria Dillman
Annie Fillenwarth
Whitney Kenerly
Aekta Sunil Khubchandani
Alexandra Kleeman
Maria Sakr
Mathew Weitman
Aleksander Zywicki
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Click here to join!
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Three Poems by John Findura
“Nineteen Minutes Ago”
This morning I am here
Nineteen minutes ago we might have met
But we missed each other, somehow
It is raining very hard but there is no thunder
Where there is no thunder there are few thoughts of you
Instead in their place is a stop-motion film
Of wooden hands playing the piano
Think of that – those wooden fingers on those ivory keys
Pictures of a famous actor with a bad haircut
An actress playing three roles in the same film
None of them are stop-motion like the wooden hands
I read a book about volcanoes
And the insistence of lava over everything else last night
And as you know if it didn’t happen there it doesn’t happen here
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“The Tracks” by Felicity LuHill
Kim stared at her feet and silently counted her steps. One, two, three… 267 steps between lampposts. One hundred and fifty steps between mailboxes. Forty-two steps since the last time she passed a dog—a small, beige terrier, unafraid to yap at sulky teenage girls. She counted to remind herself that she was another step closer to her bedroom—to cool pillows, beef jerky, and documentaries about ships discovered on the bottom of the ocean.
She wondered what she would say to Stella, her mother, when she got home. “How can you forget to pick up your own daughter?” was an effective sentiment Kim frequently used.
