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Mario Alejandro Ariza

What does it mean to lead a literary life amidst ongoing ecocide?

Sometimes, you start writing a book without realizing it. My book started off as a lyric essay, a long prose poem of doubtful quality and uncertain subject that I put together for a graduate workshop in creative writing. I knew Miami was going to get rocked by climate change. I’d written about it journalistically. But what could I do

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