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Off The Page: Reading the Body

BLR Editor Danielle Ofri hosts the “Off the Page” reading for Issue 39, a special issue on the theme of “Reading the Body”
Featured readers: Erin Cherry and Nkosi Nkululeko

Fiction:
“Where I Come From They Take It Away If They See You’re Excited” by Michele Suzann
“In This Skin” by Emma Pattee

Poetry
“Quinque Cordibus Vestris” by Gina Ferrari
“How Hair Changes before Expiration” by J.E. Robinson
“What Happened Over the Weekend” by Heather Taylor Johnson
“Her Marked Black Body” by Cynthia Parker-Ohene
“Cesarean Birth” by Viola Lee
“My Mother’s Body” by Thomas Dooley

“Bent but Not Broken,” a short film on dancers with scoliosis by Paige Fraiser