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Friday Five: April 10, 2026
Side A: "Brother, Sister" • mewithoutYou "Moveys" • Slow Pulp "No Need to Be Lonely" • Gladie "Solo Piano" • Ludovico Einaudi "Vescia Piscis" • Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys Side B: "Lobsters" • Jenna Crowder for Pithead Chapel "Let's Say This is a Self-Graded Exam and Not a True Story from Your Life" • Claire Hanlon "Tell Me If You Think This Is Funny" • Cassidy Menard for The Ex-Puritan "A Slow Boil" • Adrian Dallas Frandle for hex Literary "Things I thought about while drivin
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Friday Five: April 3, 2026
On moonlighting.
7 days ago2 min read


Friday Five: March 13, 2026
Greatest hits.
Mar 132 min read


Friday Five: March 13, 2026
Greatest hits.
Mar 132 min read


Friday Five: February 13, 2026
I want to see the design in everything.
Feb 133 min read


"Winter Solstice" • Phoenix (by Davi Schweizer)
You said I really needed to stop being the security, I was the bartender only.
Jan 312 min read


"Mother's Little Helper" • The Rolling Stones (by Erin Dawkins)
Here’s something. It will take the edge off.
Jan 313 min read


"The Tracks of My Tears" • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (by Amy Laessle-Morgan)
And I want to be held. And I want someone to hold onto.
Jan 312 min read


"Ballad of a Thin Man" • Bob Dylan (by Sheldon Birnie)
When did my life begin to unfurl?
Jan 313 min read


"Twice as Hard" • The Black Crowes (by Wade Harris)
No mistaking when Ray's in the neighborhood.
Jan 312 min read


"Run, Run, Run" • Nico & The Velvet Underground (by Rachel Turney)
Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is an educator and artist located in Denver. Her poems, research articles, reviews, and drawings can be found in a variety of publications. Rachel is passionate about immigrant rights, teacher support, and empowering other artists. She is a Writers’ Hour prize winner and Best of the Net nominee. Her photography appears on a few magazine covers. Rachel runs the popular online reading series Poetry (in Brief). She is on staff at Bare Back Magazine
Jan 311 min read


"Night Fever" • Bee Gees (by Julián Martinez)
You think I’m a sick puppy?
Jan 311 min read


"Fruit Fly" • Nada Surf (by Erika Gill)
five months not speaking
twenty generations of fruit flies
Jan 311 min read


"Barbarella" • Scott Weiland (by Riayn Spaero)
I’d put faith in our bodies—four tall boys to one small girl—to keep time.
Jan 314 min read


“Ghost Of A Texas Ladies Man” • Concrete Blonde (by Guy Cramer)
Every day there’d be new content of me scaring the bejeebies out of her in unexpected places.
Jan 313 min read


Literary Mixtape Volume 26
On acts of resistance.
Jan 312 min read


Friday Five: January 30, 2026
Sonic remedies for anxiety.
Jan 303 min read


Friday Five: January 16, 2026
He's a good man, Savannah.
Jan 162 min read


Friday Five: January 9, 2026
That unknown, unquantifiable thing.
Jan 92 min read


Friday Five: January 2, 2026
New year, new mixtapes.
Jan 22 min read
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