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Tea parties will be cancelled, and all the cakes from here on out will be diet.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-25430", "words": "813", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "97", "author": "Hunsinger, Zoey", "title": "Throw Away Your Prozac (Best of)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bed; friend", "summary": "Throw Away Your Prozac Zoey Hunsinger Stay in bed. She also won\u2019t like that you stay in bed all day with your curtains shut.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-25432", "words": "2999", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "91", "author": "Dile, Evan", "title": "The Unkindness of the Raven", "date": "2021", "keywords": "coffee; man; nevar; traeh", "summary": "22 The Unkindness of the Raven Evan Dile Nevar Windsor approached the coffee shop, stopping just in front of the glass doors. 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I was fixed on fluttering fingers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-25435", "words": "164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "86", "author": "Weiss, Madison", "title": "Chicken Paprikash", "date": "2021", "keywords": "chicken", "summary": "38 Chicken Paprikash Madison Weiss This is my people\u2019s last rite of passage. They didn\u2019t die in German camps for me to not master this recipe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-25436", "words": "255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "93", "author": "L\u00e9on, Tanner", "title": "God Gave Me a Lighter (Best of)", "date": "2021", "keywords": "night", "summary": "Punk night at Melody Inn. They crossed my throat into my chest like holy water on a parched man\u2019s lips.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-25438", "words": "110", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Couch, Shannon", "title": "The Hoosier Dome", "date": "2021", "keywords": "sidewalk", "summary": "Forever unrepaired, chosen to keep, as the preservation of memory outweighs structural integrity. Bassline pulse-drive and mechanical starry sky \u2013 This shroud is a battle cry, power incarnate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-25439", "words": "134", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "90", "author": "Hunsinger, Zoey", "title": "Hummingbird Eulogy", "date": "2021", "keywords": "wings", "summary": "9 Hummingbird Eulogy Zoey Hunsinger A flower-kisser collapsed on the ground. But I watched him every day from the cheap-seats of university grass.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-25440", "words": "133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "77", "author": "Hunsinger, Zoey", "title": "The Impressionist", "date": "2021", "keywords": "canvas", "summary": "His spectacles faltered as he studied the water and ignored the rusted hills of cavalry New Mexico. There wasn\u2019t enough paint on his palette, so he marbled a pigment of his imagination.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-25441", "words": "88", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "99", "author": "Farr, Mason", "title": "Joan of Arc", "date": "2021", "keywords": "joan", "summary": "She calls herself Joan of Arc. 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The frail and gruff sacrificial Billy goat, Dying, so the rest of us can live.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-26181", "words": "3010", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Coy, Chloe", "title": "\u96ea\u82b1 \u7684 \u6545\u4e8b - SNOW FLOWER\u2019S STORY", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bella; chinese; family; mom; veronica; white", "summary": "As people of color, Asians can relate to how other non-White people experience White, American hegemony. 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The din of dusk drones on and crescendos with my empathy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28279", "words": "112", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "87", "author": "Kraljic, Tomislav", "title": "The Dahlia That Withered Away", "date": "2024", "keywords": "dahlia", "summary": "15 the sable ragged curtains hang onto the stained metal grommets obscuring the clear windowpane that breathes life into this somber room. Tomislav Kraljic The Dahlia That Withered Away", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28280", "words": "245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "79", "author": "Surdzial, Eliza", "title": "Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017", "date": "2024", "keywords": "water", "summary": "Deteriorated paint and damaged wallpaper drooping half-way down the wall, scattered lilies blooming, breathing in the water. Eliza Surdzial Hurricane St. Agatha through the Eyes of a Coastal Florida Timeshare Purchased through a Costco Membership circa 2017 19 The home\u2019s skin shed like a snake\u2019s with every scratch and blue bruise carried away.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28281", "words": "113", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "93", "author": "Dixon, Saloni", "title": "pondering a black girl\u2019s* suicide", "date": "2024", "keywords": "sky", "summary": "Beneath the sky a garden blue stalks my name I forget this kind of fire strikes black bodies into shit Oh friends wild until we are free set us afire again. 25 don\u2019t tell nobody she\u2019s dancing on beer cans and shingles and bones don\u2019t tell a soul have we gone crazy?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28282", "words": "198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "98", "author": "Terhorst, Elizabeth", "title": "Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic", "date": "2024", "keywords": "scrub", "summary": "Elizabeth Terhorst Windsor and Newtown Galeria Acrylic 27 Blue Slapped across my back From times I was too young to remember.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28283", "words": "236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Stone, Mario", "title": "Inspir\u00f3", "date": "2024", "keywords": "que", "summary": "Te lo dir\u00e9\u2026 pues te digo que s\u00ed, que s\u00ed te ment\u00ed una y s\u00f3lo una vez m\u00e1s por el miedo\u2026 La verdad es que s\u00ed\u2026 que s\u00ed\u2026 que s\u00ed fue por ti que me rasgu\u00e9 in two in two arrancando de mi coraz\u00f3n la rosa que entre l\u00e1grimas le\u00edste \u2026 Y que s\u00ed que s\u00ed que s\u00ed lo pens\u00e9\u2026 en un futuro los dos, el comenzar de un cuento, el cuento sin fin Mario Stone Inspir\u00f3 \u201cMe gusta complacerte\u201d \u2013 me encant\u00f3 escucharte cantar, acariciarte y \u201cPor favor\u201d despertarme bajo tus miles de besos sobre mi rostro \u2013 Lagrimas compartidas, m\u00e1s que una, que dos\u2026 m\u00e1s que tres veces\u2026 Calmaste mis penas y me partiste en dos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28284", "words": "93", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "94", "author": "Wilson, Ashley", "title": "Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen", "date": "2024", "keywords": "words", "summary": "Your flowing ink a river, bringing life to the words that sprout into sycamore groves. Ashley Wilson Ode to my Pilot G-2 07 pen", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28285", "words": "96", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Barakat, Ruthie", "title": "vibrator? hardly know her.", "date": "2024", "keywords": "fingertips", "summary": "42 i like raspberries on my fingertips, stained red and sweet my lips tingle from off-brand seltzer shoes shuffle across the floor, wood laminate underneath worn-out reeboks steps leading upstairs fingertips looking for a drawer to pull out too soon to tell it smells like purple and perfume luminescent, flickering like tongues and candlelight on top of it all, three is my lucky number, writing my name on your teeth a cat\u2019s cradle in the bedroom, hot breath on a pillow not everything fast is battery-powered Ruthie Barakat vibrator? hardly know her.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28286", "words": "62", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Adie, Selma", "title": "butterflies", "date": "2024", "keywords": "butterflies", "summary": "44 the butterflies in my chest have been dormant and sleeping for ages but when you brushed up against me and knocked on my heart they awoke in a frenzy and threw themselves against my ribcage, fervent, aching to be set free and land gently on your face and adorn your gorgeous eyes and decorate your cheeks like freckles Selma Adie butterflies", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28287", "words": "122", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "94", "author": "Barakat, Ruthie", "title": "DJ Khalid could never", "date": "2024", "keywords": "hands", "summary": "you open your mouth and i make that airplane sound, lovingly churned cream and sugar destined for your tongue we lay back, stomachs full, mouths sticky, sweet tooth still not satiated Ruthie Barakat DJ Khalid i want it sweet, so cold i can feel the nerves in my teeth, screaming through enamel you bite down, i tell you to go slowly \u2013 you\u2019ll give yourself a bellyache.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28288", "words": "184", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "85", "author": "Surdzial, Eliza", "title": "Milk-White Bones", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bones", "summary": "I need me outside in to save your hands the strain from finger food staining to be easier to consume. Perhaps dried-up like the apple chips your mother would buy from Whole Foods for your Little League games.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28302", "words": "224", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "82", "author": "McVeigh, Kayla", "title": "Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill", "date": "2024", "keywords": "silence", "summary": "Until another match flickers and the next stick burns Nag Champa floating up into the air and over the graves Kayla McVeigh Keeping Our Practices: A Walk Through Crown Hill Pocketing fragments of the infamous Dillinger fame How am I not to pause at the strange exchanges of closed eyes and bowed heads?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28303", "words": "143", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "98", "author": "Platt, Trent", "title": "My Father Grew Wings", "date": "2024", "keywords": "wings", "summary": "When you sway on swings with mulch chips in your nails, you two are there. Trent Platt My Father Grew Wings", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28304", "words": "246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Cassetty, Christopher", "title": "Lavender", "date": "2024", "keywords": "lavender", "summary": "Then these images take shape to me, and I see the birds fly away into seas of oranges and blues, and far away the palette blends into thunderous and dark blacks\u2014and whites, and rains then pour from above me, and I look down to see suddenly sand beneath my legs, slowly turning piebald from the worsening summer rains, and I take the sand within my hands and watch it spill from between my webbed and pure fingers, and the clumps where the rain had touched fall out so\u2014displeasingly\u2014 but I gaze back up to find the sun dip beneath tumultuous and restless seas, and I go to take my breath and stand before I\u2019m confronted by death and gasp\u2014 I see the bouquet before me wherefrom those lavender petals had fallen to the floor, flowers hanging withered from a vase just filled with freshly reclaimed rainwater. I stare, cross-legged on the floor in front of my bed, at this sky, where light beiges mix so beautifully with the dappled singes of the dried lavender leaves, almost like birds amidst clouds between me and the foreboding and soon night.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28305", "words": "98", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "102", "author": "Dixon, Saloni", "title": "The Lynching", "date": "2024", "keywords": "birth", "summary": "This is limbo, life after death coming in hungry. Saloni Dixon The Lynching", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28306", "words": "777", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "94", "author": "McVeigh, Kayla", "title": "Two Boars (best of)", "date": "2024", "keywords": "bristles; hair", "summary": "I keep reworking the same sections of long dark hair. 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I felt her words cover my head and neck, bathing me, cleansing me, running cool from the tap until the water heater croaks to life and you hear whining in the pipes like the ringing of your ears, and of course, I didn\u2019t hear what she said.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28309", "words": "212", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Adedipe, Zion O.", "title": "Shackles to Spectacles", "date": "2024", "keywords": "waxen", "summary": "77 Outcries from the oppressive realms, where shadows weep, A realm where serpents are slain but villains are made, In our dystopian misery, Black warriors arise asserting the essence of our defi- ance, Bound by shackles, bound by chains, bound by faith, imprisoned by the bloody waxen pagans, Bound in blood, the repercussion of an attack. Voices echoing and roaring vengeance, but the bloody waxen pagans believed us to be Black swans, These same Black swans hunted their heads, murdered thousands of their crowned waxen pagans, Turning their houses to coffins and taking their recompenses into ashes, Bound by shackles, bound by chains, bound by faith, imprisoned by the bloody waxen pagans, Terror prowling at their spirits, but their Gods conquered,", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28310", "words": "108", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "98", "author": "Wilson, Ashley", "title": "Incantation for the end of pain", "date": "2024", "keywords": "limb", "summary": "Ashley Wilson Incantation for the end of pain Take this, all sinew and stretch; tie the strands of my muscles to wicked steeds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28311", "words": "222", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "94", "author": "Wilson, Ashley", "title": "The Righteous", "date": "2024", "keywords": "shoulders", "summary": "We perched there, perfect rows of deep blue polos and pressed khakis. 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Raeya Wilhelm Refurbished Doll Most efforts are in vain.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28315", "words": "167", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "94", "author": "McVeigh, Kayla", "title": "Grey Hair", "date": "2024", "keywords": "grey", "summary": "A gentleness that comes from the aging of dark hair to a softened grey. Daily surprises are offered within a lifetime.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28316", "words": "191", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "72", "author": "Hunsader, Clayton", "title": "a zombie", "date": "2024", "keywords": "zombie", "summary": "as more became infected, the protected passively grew from natural progression. little larvae are always attracted to them, the stench of decay follows dilapidated bone structures and liquified internal organs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28317", "words": "96", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Cassetty, Christopher", "title": "Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance", "date": "2024", "keywords": "soul", "summary": "105 You were even more beautiful with those manic eyes, so bright and refulgent, I never dared think a more beautiful grey, and even when you stared at me with such distaste and\u2014 hate, I couldn\u2019t help, in frustration, but love you, and I still do, though I haven\u2019t met with your soul in quite some time; it makes me wonder\u2014 was it ever just your eyes, or the damaged soul I saw inside, that made me love you more than I ever thought to love myself. Christopher Cassetty Mania, and her Beautiful Countenance", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28318", "words": "191", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Kile, Kim", "title": "Your Dying", "date": "2024", "keywords": "dying", "summary": "106 The last time I saw you alive, death was creeping up your throat, taking you from the inside out. It didn\u2019t steal you quietly in the night, but suffocated you slowly, taunting you, offering you peace for the briefest of seconds before tightening its grip around your throat, causing you to sit up and cry in pain.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28319", "words": "165", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "87", "author": "Surdzial, Eliza", "title": "Apology for a Dissociative State of Mind", "date": "2024", "keywords": "home", "summary": "You\u2019re a robot wearing human skin, clouded eyes and automated dances. The End\u2019s guttural scream fallen silent on silly straw ears.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28320", "words": "210", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "83", "author": "Kluger, Alexandra", "title": "Send to Postal Code: 184209", "date": "2024", "keywords": "sip", "summary": "I am from strange looking letters; mainly symbols because \u201cletters\u201d are unrecognizable. 112 I am from naked birch trees, that blend in with the gray skies seamlessly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28321", "words": "169", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-67", "author": "McVeigh, Kayla", "title": "Fair Winds and Following Seas", "date": "2024", "keywords": "goodbyes", "summary": "114 A maritime phrase for wishing farewell and a safe voyage If goodbyes bleed, so be it Let them chum the waters calling wide-mouthed bullhead sharks Circling blackened seas Fins like sails cutting through the push and pull of tides Let them feed Tooth by tooth, scissoring through flesh Let ships be called to the edge of the world Sinking through deeper shades of navy they are returned Within the depths that keep creatures with little use for eyes If goodbyes cry, have them sing out with shorebirds Let them sound over waves crashing along coastal cliffs that hold speckled eggs Glaucous-winged gulls Flapping above choppy waters, flight caught in stirring winds and skies Let us cry Wing by wing, rising above currents Let tides tumble along the stretches of shoreline Crushing dark green glass, smoothing discarded Heineken bottles In waves, all things exist somewhere between flotsam and found And goodbyes are just tradition for all that lives at sea Kayla McVeigh Fair Winds and Following Seas", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28322", "words": "152", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "93", "author": "Dixon, Saloni", "title": "No Dinner", "date": "2024", "keywords": "eat", "summary": "clogging up rivers, muffling jambalaya rhythms riding sweet bass strings, and I hear centuries carcasses of the dancing drums. your belly ready to sail icy seas like a torn page from a book.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28323", "words": "158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "76", "author": "Kluger, Alexandra", "title": "Identity Crisis", "date": "2024", "keywords": "art", "summary": "I am not the composition of art\u2014 encased and displayed, framed in golden petals that are only seen in my strands of blonde. Nor am I the purity of stainless snow baptist robes be to Law, rather by the Crimson Blood that cleaned me clear.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28324", "words": "203", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "90", "author": "Adie, Selma", "title": "The Cradle", "date": "2024", "keywords": "colors", "summary": "Sometimes I would ask for color In the only way I knew how I would scream, and the world Would only scream back When I grew older, they gave me Two colors, as a reward I got blue, for being good And green, for staying quiet I got hungry, I got tired It gave me colors to shut me up Paints in purple and pink I couldn\u2019t eat the colors Couldn\u2019t sleep on them, either", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28325", "words": "155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Fee, Bee", "title": "to have and to hold", "date": "2024", "keywords": "heart", "summary": "139 Slice through the skin like a sharpened knife against paper Clutch the dampened couch cushions as pain grits teeth Suck air through a clenched jaw The pain sears and sizzles at the edge of my vision Fragmented glimpses of you Blink Tears drip from eyes I search for your eyes You have none Stab at the body blindly as if you are simply a piece of flesh An empty vessel tossed aside for the buzzards and vultures alike Search for Humanity In this moment of despair, I plead for mercy Call their name Please Do not answer Claw with nails, tear through tissue and muscle right down to the bone Crack ribs Pluck out their still-beating heart with talons A claw machine, your hand dangles and sways Mocking What you came for has been found \u2013 my heart was only ever yours: to have and to hold.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28326", "words": "221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "91", "author": "Seigel, Sarah", "title": "The Process of Healing", "date": "2024", "keywords": "mother", "summary": "Sarah Seigel The Process of Healing She tells herself that this life is so sweet, feeling the faint way her heart beats, pretending that she does not lie down in defeat, her mother asks her when she will eat.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28327", "words": "174", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "78", "author": "Hunsader, Clayton", "title": "How to Open a Can of Nothing.", "date": "2024", "keywords": "light", "summary": "Everything exists strictly within observation, but that begs the question What\u2019s observing it? 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The only guarantee for life is Death.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28328", "words": "185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "9", "author": "Miller, Jared", "title": "Sign Crushes Motorist", "date": "2024", "keywords": "birthday", "summary": "152 I had a dream about you the night before my birthday we were in my bed our legs were where our heads should\u2019ve been I was on top of you your shirt was off I held you like a vice around your chest so tight I feared cracking your ribs we weren\u2019t having sex that was never the intention we were talking whispering giggling I gave you kisses on your naked shoulder you were not something won or conquered you were camaraderie personified a person who I both saw myself in and admired with my whole being our hearts beat against one another each desperately hoping to break out of their respective cages to become a singular atom at once it was like what being in love is like it felt like being home it was over quick even for a dream, it was a quick and blurry flash still the brief vignette stuck in my head I told you about it the next morning the morning of my birthday I can\u2019t remember what you said Jared Miller Sign Crushes Motorist", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28329", "words": "102", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Stone, Mario", "title": "Oraci\u00f3n", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cada", "summary": "a\u00fan quedan conmigo cada recuerdo mil tesoros mil latidos implacables- en mi cofre suma una cosecha de flores, cada flor compartida es tuya \u2013 las ba\u00f1e con gotas de sol el recuerdo de tus ojos tu sonrisa, tu linda amor Mario Stone Oraci\u00f3n 154 Por favor, que cada lagrima sea una petici\u00f3n a Tu bendito querer, que cada vez que digo su nombre sea un pedido de mi alma \u2013 Flor del cielo, m\u00e1tame anhelo morir por resucitar recordando el primer beso tan natural de cada amanecer- En convulsiones estoy, las lagrimas quemando, sudando espinas en mis mejillas- sobre mi rostro un asfixio divino.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28330", "words": "124", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "84", "author": "McVeigh, Kayla", "title": "Gives life", "date": "2024", "keywords": "ice", "summary": "He is a blinding flash of light \u201cAnd if I made you bleed?\u201d he taunts Ribbons of blood coil around him I pull him closer to the surface His light crackles Static sparks sting my hands My hair fades My eyes cloud over My joints and bones resist me The line snaps The fish says: \u201cWould sleep be so bad after a time of unrest?\u201d Kayla McVeigh Gives life 155 Glimmering scales of lapis lazuli", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28331", "words": "117", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "95", "author": "Kluger, Alexandra", "title": "Kiln Kind of Love", "date": "2024", "keywords": "kiln", "summary": "Alexandra Kluger Kiln Kind of Love 156 Perhaps he saw me as dry clay.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28333", "words": "145", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "81", "author": "Barakat, Ruthie", "title": "back when the world was within walking distance,", "date": "2024", "keywords": "chlorine", "summary": "with tiny fists unafraid to meet rusted wire fence. must have gone through thousands of boxes of blueberry toaster strudel. dirt angels formed beside a baseball dugout, splayed arms and legs moved in unison, blue skies above the neighborhood.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "genesis-28934", "words": "268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Evans, Bailey; Witham, Eli", "title": "Letter from the Editors", "date": "2025", "keywords": "issue", "summary": "We want to thank all of our readers, who have carried issues of genesis around campus in backpacks and tote bags or gifted copies to their friends and classmates. 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