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Maya Phillips

Maya Phillips is a poet and journalist based in New York. She is the author of the poetry collection Erou and the forthcoming NERD: On Navigating Heroes, Magic, and Fandom in the 21st Century and is the arts critic fellow at the New York Times.

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Theory of the Disappeared Man

September 7, 2020
who looks like my father or his father or an ex or neighbor or someone I’ve never met at all— We’re facing an epidemic and the drugs are still in clinical trials (or would be if the doctors could find them) but now we’ve all grown accustomed to loss, saunter through ...
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Trick of Light

September 7, 2020
This is no small thing: to be the wickless candle, borrowed hands of the divine to let there be light even here in the already well-lit rooms.   There’s always more light to be shone when you take from the body: around the ear under the nose— flare the ...