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JOYCE, 25min., Norway
Directed by Tomas Martinsen-Hickman
Joyce, a 40-something closeted alcoholic, hits her breaking point after a series of bad choices, her husband stages an intervention but it goes awry and she risks losing her family and her life, based on tru...

Performed by Val Cole

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Existential Hazards of the Mythmaker, by Michelle Chen
In English class we learn how the lotus flower, native
to Guyana, is a fiction of resilience, but under keen
Chinese eyes blooms purity in the dark. Because critical
interpretation never lies – unlike climate...

Performed by Val Cole

Sunbeam, by Amita Jayant Sanghavi

Sometimes a memory
Burns and scalds
So bad
Those moonbeams
Can’t soothe
The seething heart,
Sometimes a memory
Leaves shivers and chills
So bad
Those sunbeams
Can’t warm
The frozen heart.

Between
The moonbeams
And the sunbeams,
The ‘pre...

Performed by Val Cole

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Performed by Val Cole

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Performed by Val Cole

Wings, by Angie Kinman

Give sorrow words,
Shakespeare wrote.
Lest my heart
should break.

So I tell her story to the Indigo Buntings
as they craft nests of
beautyberry and Indian blanket
in a field abloom with life.

They listen.
I think they know
my little girl who was Li...

Performed by Val Cole