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Here's CF poetry reader Fadairo Tesleem in Lagos at the Aké Arts & Book Festival. The festival, now in its thirteenth year, has brought together over a thousand writers, poets, musicians, actors, filmmakers, artists and thinkers to celebrate creativity, network and share stories.

Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.

Recently posted titles on the Consequence Substack.

One of our past contributors, Jehanne Dubrow, has a new book coming out and she will be leading a special one-day class based on it later this month. We’re proud to be a partner in the event! Follow the registration link above to learn more and register.

Thank you, TLA Network, for the recognition as a 2025 Transformative Language Arts Award winner. It’s an honor to be recognized and we can’t thank you enough. @tlanetwork.bsky.social

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Please join us in the celebration of our most recent issue. Go to consequenceforum.org to register and learn more.

We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org

We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org

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We spoke with Raphael Badagliacca, an author featured in Consequence Forum’s Journal 17.1, about what the organization means to him. Head to consequenceforum.org/journals to read his work.

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Learn more and register at consequenceforum.org/workshops. We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings. For more info, please email info@consequenceforum.org

We spoke to Peter McKinney, an author featured in Consequence Forum’s Journal 17.1, about knowing when his pieces are truly finished. Head to consequenceforum.org/journals to read his work.

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Flash! Four Works of Micro-Fiction (with audio recordings) Inhabiting the rich borderland between poetry and prose, these stories combine compression and narrative in a form that, author Dana Wall says, “effectively captures the compressed intensity of war.”

Inhabiting the rich borderland between poetry and prose, these stories combine compression and narrative in a form that, author Dana Wall says, “effectively captures the compressed intensity of war.”
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#shortstory #fiction #flashfiction #FlashFictionFriday

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The Art of Peace: On Amichai, Darwish, and the Poetic Imagination By Yahia Lababidi. "Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai write from fractured geographies: two sides of a wound too deep for slogans."

By Yahia Lababidi (@ysl.bsky.social‬). "Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai write from fractured geographies: two sides of a wound too deep for slogans."

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The Original “Occupy DC” Movement The 1932 Bonus Army: when war veterans protesting for better benefits faced a military backlash. By J.G.P. MacAdam

The 1932 Bonus Army: when war veterans protesting for better benefits faced a military backlash. By J.G.P. MacAdam

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#veteransupport #veterans #veteranshelpingveterans #VeteranStrong #Essays #nonfictionreads #nonfiction #nonfictionauthor

Empire State of Mind Three books to help wrap your head around the true span of American military hegemony. By J.G.P. MacAdam.

Three books to help wrap your head around the true span of American military hegemony. By J.G.P. MacAdam.

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#bookrecommendations #militarybooks #usmilitary #USMilitaryHistory #USMilitaryPower

🎉🎉 On Sunday, August 10, at 3 pm, Consequence Forum's Contributing Editor Martha Collins will be awarded the New England Poetry Club’s Golden Rose Award, one of the nation’s oldest literary prizes.

To learn more and register for the livestream: nepoetryclub.org/event/longfe...

Congrats, Martha!

I Remember Buddy Nonfiction by James J. Kirschke. “Well, now that I am blind, when I go out to supper with my wife and children, the waiter or waitress always asks my wife . . . what I would like to eat."

Nonfiction by James J. Kirschke. “Well, now that I am blind, when I go out to supper with my wife and children, the waiter or waitress always asks my wife . . . what I would like to eat."

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#nonfiction #nonfictionreads #vietnamwar

A new prose workshop!

Bringing the Receipts: Using Personal Documents as Prompts to Write about the Past

*We offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings.

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Found familial photograph A poem by Vaughn Hayes that imagines a convincing world for the people found in a photograph, telling us of their lives and sacrifices, and ends on the hope for someone "to say something soft."

A poem by Vaughn Hayes that imagines a convincing world for the people found in a photograph, telling us of their lives and sacrifices, and ends on the hope for someone "to say something soft."

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Writing Sci-Fi War Stories

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Father, A Portrait in Wartime An interview by C. J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) with Taiwanese artist Chang Ping-Cheng (張秉正). "Although my imagery draws from the generation of my father, I’m not simply telling their stories."

An interview by C. J. Anderson-Wu (吳介禎) with Taiwanese artist Chang Ping-Cheng (張秉正). "Although my imagery draws from the generation of my father, I’m not simply telling their stories."

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New Poetry Workshop: The Grammar of History, the Syntax of War

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