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MIMESIS Issue 2 ReleasedMimesis 2 is now available either from Paypal on the Order page or from Lulu. If you have some spare cash and a hankering for poetic misdeeds, make sure to buy a copy!
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The overwhelming majority of first-responder comments to NBC's 'Breaking News' story about Jason Collins's coming out asks this very question: Why is this Breaking News?

It shouldn't be. In a perfect world, it shouldn't be. 

Wouldn't be?

Shouldn't be.

Ours is not a perfect world.

Jason Collins defies stigma simply by being who he is, but he never would have been given the chance to do so--to come out in Sports Illustrated with the confidence of his career and connections--if he hadn't hid who he was for thirty-three years.

That makes this announcement important--not just for Jason Collins, but for the next guy.

And the next.

And the next.

Maybe he won't have to wait thirty-three years. Maybe he won't need the laurels of a well-won career to rest on. 

Maybe it won't even be breaking news.

But today, it is. And it should be. Because being a black, gay basketball player may not break down a barrier--not all by itself--but it has surely caused a crack.

And we all know about cracks, don't we? Cracks permit a little light to shine in too-dark places.

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`GeneratingHype
Hobbling on Hope
Ireland
You may call me Bill or Pip. I'm a twenty-something editor, a self-professed punctuation junkie with a penchant for words, and a Catholic. I am also a very private, shy homosexual living my day-to-day between New York City and Oxford.

I like talking about sex, politics, books, relationships, religion, grammar, philosophy, literature, music, baseball and football. I have an old obsession with black and white movies and anything noir, and a true appreciation for Jimmy Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Fred Astaire, and Cary Grant.

We'll probably get on well if you know who Robbe-Grillet is, enjoy Borges or Nabokov, can admit to liking Oscar Wilde, hate James Joyce and John Steinbeck, like Keats, appreciate Donne, and believe that Baldwin and Capote are among the greatest American writers in literary history.

Or, if reading isn't your thing, hit me up with a "Hello!" I welcome random IMs and notes.
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`LostKitten Feb 21, 2013  Student
Never forgotten. :heart:
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=RosaryOfSighsx Feb 14, 2013
:heart: Happy Valentines to you, Bill :rose:
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*SMAdams Jan 19, 2013  Student Writer
For so many years, he has inspired me - and continues to do so. A great man in more ways than can be imagined.
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~AIR-EEL Jan 10, 2013
Just sending my love and well wishes to those of you closest to him. There are quiet times when I find myself grateful for ever encountering his work.
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`lintu47 Dec 24, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Happy Holidays! :santa:
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*SgtPossum Nov 5, 2012
Typically I come across a writer on here ranging from mediocre to impressive and I let them know they have talent--usually by saying so directly and telling them to "keep up the good work." That isn't quite enough here, on your page, is it?

Having started three times to explain what it is I like in your work, and having deleted that all three times in disgusted frustration, as I can't seem to pinpoint just why I enjoy your apparent literary brilliance, it seems all I can say is that you know what you're doing. Perhaps you don't know what's about to be put on the page before it is, and maybe you've got it all planned out beforehand, but you still clearly know exactly how to craft a story, a poem, or a personal essay when it comes down to doing it.

This is something I have found little of on this site--writers who do not only have a bright understanding of their mortal dreads, but have the technical knowhow and emotional experience to tell their stories exactly as they should be told. Your work is an oasis of fantastic brilliance deep in a desert of plot holes, confused sentences, and heartbreak as understood by fourteen-year-old girls.

So, congratulations on your DD. You deserved it.
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~FlightoftheMoon Nov 5, 2012
I don't think we ever met or spoke, but I wanted to thank you for your writing. I think that I am better from having seen it. So... thank you.
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Mood: Thanks ~blondathartnhead Nov 5, 2012
I never met you, spoke with you, or encountered your work before right now and all I can say is that I am deeply humbled and moved. You so clearly touched everyone that has had the pleasure of reading through your work and even greater those who had the honor of knowing you. You made this world so much more beautiful and I'm certain that you are doing the same in the next. :rose: God bless you and all those who cradle your memory. You've made facing my own life threatening illness a bit easier.
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