Eileen

Compression culture rewires your body, too. Not just your brain. Notice how you read now: shoulders hunched like a predator ready to pounce on the next piece of information, breath shallow and rapid as if oxygen itself were scarce, eyes darting frantically across screens like a rat in a maze searching for the cheese of instant gratification. Your... See more

A cento, from the Latin word for "patchwork," is a poetic form composed entirely of lines from poems by other poets. This means none of the writing is yours; the lines belong to others, and your work as the writer is selecting the necessary pieces, then assembling the fragments to make a new whole. In my experience, juxtaposing lines from different

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