Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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Machines Don’t Whimper
A poet’s funeral becomes a public reckoning with AI, art, pain, and the human need to create meaning before machines consume it.
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Ascending
“I let my turtle out, its eyes the pallid skin Of the moon, its tiny body heaving across Mountains. It reaches the sea, looks up at me, Foam curdling on…
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TBR Spring 26: Grief. Reminiscence. Trauma. Watermelons.
Read the latest issue with authors from around the world.
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Memory
Three elegiac poems trace abandonment, inheritance, and fragile resilience through myth, memory, and the natural world.
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Flowers
A reflective collection of poems and prose tracing first love, storm-lit highways, winter journeys, and the quiet claiming of self through writing.
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Lydia Renfro | TBR Winter 2025
Fiction editor Filippo Beltrami speaks with Lydia Renfro on place, Turkey, food, language, and cultural displacement behind her story “Greetings From.” “Story moves us past superficial differences and shows how…