Part of a memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, stories told through papercuts and library cards, three pieces from Far Enough East, and a film

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The Metropolitan Police, the men, stood
in one-line formation. The women, we,
the demonstrators, drew one another close.
We were a bouquet knot of pink roses.
How can it be that all the cops are men,
and all for Peace women? I can't live
in such a world. I don't want to keep
living out the myth that men fight
and women mother. We regressed—the junior
high dance. One boy crossed
the wide floor, chose one girl,
escorted her back to the other side, where
he arrested her. . . .

--From I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, a memoir in verse by Maxine Hong Kingston (Knopf, 2011).  This segment is from Knopf's Poem-a-Day (April 21, 2012) and is available here on Tumblr. 

"Babcia," a papercut story by Marta Chudolinska, Broken Pencil, Issue 60 (August 27, 2013). 

 

"Due Date," a project by Molly Rideout, Driftwood Press, Volume 1, Issue 2.  This story consists of 36 library cards, each hand-written by a different woman.   

 

"Kumasi," a poem by Patrick Bahls, and "My Mother Had Two Voices," a poem by Steve Klepetar, Far Enough East, Issue 5.   

 

Inside his dream Kit is a child again, tanned and knock-kneed. He is a small boy in a starched cotton shirt and khaki Bermuda shorts. His mouth is flooded with the achingly comforting, artificial sweetness of fifteen-cent fishcake from the primary school tuck-shop. He is standing in a building that looks something like his old school. Paper cranes drip down from mouldy windows. They are folded from beer bottles. The wind moves and makes the trees outside stir and sway. His teeth start dropping out; clattering on his tongue, hard and small and troubling. He wonders if anyone has ever choked to death on his or her own teeth.

--From "Coast," a short story by Sharlene Teo, Far Enough East, Issue 5. 

 

Before Midnight (2013), the third film in the trilogy about Jesse and Celine; directed by Richard Linklater; written by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy based on characters created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan; and starring Ethan Hawke as Jesse and Julie Delpy as Celine.