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“The Fragility of Health and Friendship in Rheea Mukherjee’s The Body Myth” by Emily Behnke
Mira, a widowed teacher living alone in a bustling modern city in India, witnesses a beautiful woman having a seizure in a park and rushes to help. Soon after, she develops an intense and volatile friendship with the woman, Sara, who suffers from a variety of symptoms and ailments with no conclusive diagnosis, and her husband Rahil, who acts as her primary caretaker. As the trio endures the ebb and flow of Sara’s physical and mental health, Mira’s own emotional stability wobbles, ultimately causing each friend to evaluate Mira’s role within Sara and Rahil’s marriage.
Rheea Mukherjee writes with fluidity and lyricism,
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“Bicycle Poem” by Noelle Kocot
There were cathedrals falling out of your eyes
And your arms were the handlebars
I held in an abbreviated dream of crushed petals
Strewn across the limpid avenues.I said, “I have poems for you”
But my words were lost in the wind.
I said, “I love you”
And you drifted into sleep.And so I said nothing and rode you in and out of the rooms
Where we had stretched the boundaries of the soul
Like an endless sheet
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LIT at AWP!
Join LIT, The New School’s journal of creative writing, to celebrate the release of issue #25. Seattle-based collective “Office Nomads” kindly invited LIT to share their space. The night will feature readings by LIT contributors, as well as guest appearances by Nomads themselves. An evening of bi-coastal collaboration awaits.
Where: Office Nomads 1617 Boylston Avenue
When: Thursday, February 17th 6:30pm
