Mouth Magazine

02/19/2016

"She ashes her cigarette, burned down just short of the filter, into the dirt next to her feet."

http://dmouth.com/writing/new-year-or-something

She says tomorrow I quit smoking and she leans sideways against a white pillar, pressing her weight against it and playing with the loose splinters at the porch’s edge. I say Anne, you said that yesterday.

02/19/2016

"A priest I know says that depression is spiritual, that it comes from and points to the sacred. She thinks we lose something in medicating sadness, that even paralyzing despair is generative. But it’s easy to romanticize melancholy, harder to believe that stagnation contains potential. "


http://dmouth.com/writing/to-rescue-means-to-love-things

Austin means warm winters, means that seasons aren’t distinguishable. They infest each other, graft onto each other’s decay. Fall rots into a sodden trail of grey highway horizons and road kill that bakes more slowly than usual.

02/17/2016

On love and EpiPens.

http://dmouth.com/writing//love-in-the-time-of-anaphylaxis

a poem.

02/16/2016

"But your love isn’t always the ‘in’ kind and that becomes a problem, that the intensity of your emotion can exist outside the box the world allotted for it. There are ones you love deeply, friends who are soulmates, who love you similarly until they don’t, who eventually fall out of what was always integral for you. You broke off parts of yourself to let them in, but they do not need you in the same way."

http://dmouth.com/writing/on-falling-out-of-love-with-yourself

It’s like an ink spill. A whole bottle of ink spills on some old white sheet and the optimist in you says, ‘wow, look at that new pattern.’ At some point later in the week or month or year, you realize your infatuation with the pattern isn’t a sign of its beauty. You put it in the wash, take it out,…

02/15/2016

A new issue out today, ARRHYTHMIA. Read twelve variations on the theme.

Mouth is a arts, politics, and literature magazine produced at Dartmouth College.

01/29/2016

Christian Nakazawa on the myth and historicism of the lone genius.

01/12/2016

Andrew Kingsley writes on the rising tide of Star Wars merchandizing and the genius of George Lucas's empire.

12/05/2015

Worried that the push for gun control will come up empty? Alex Kane and Mac Simonson spitballed some alternative approaches to help deal with daily mass shootings.

http://dmouth.com/writing/2015/12/4/ways-to-deal-with-daily-mass-s

1) Put it in perspective. Mass shootings may occur on average once a day. But the Spanish Influenza killed 50,000,000 people. 2) A mindfulness coloring book. Your childhood is over and your innocence gone, but infantilizing yourself can be as easy as purchasing an adult coloring book. 3) Swap out co…

10/21/2015

"When Salgado visited in 1986 the town that sprung up to house the miners was also housing scores of underage prostitutes and around 900 unsolved murders each year. The photos he took are chaotic, harrowing, violent, and reminiscent of the village scenes of Dutch Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel, or the hallucinogenic, hellish landscapes of Hieronymus Bosch."

A reverent documentary by Wim Wenders gives a broad overview of the magnificent, encyclopedic body of work that Sebastião Salgado has amassed since he began working as a photojournalist in 1973; he takes startlingly pretty photographs of atrocious conditions of poverty, corporate exploitation, and g…

10/20/2015

"The dark in the western sky is spreading slowly with sundown. Mark hands Alex the hat and they walk back to their campsite, tired and quiet except for the leaves under their feet."

http://dmouth.com/writing/2015/10/20/z648e8tkdcawdtcmha6plc9ls88le7

What if death is a dark room where you can’t even see your hand in front of your face?

09/22/2015

Mouth is accepting submissions for the first issue of fall term, #26: idolatry. Blitz [email protected] if you're interested in writing. Deadline is October second.