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NEWS: Proximity’s editorial team is growing!
Proximity is excited to announce the addition of two new editors to our family: Shasta Grant and Stacy Muszynski. Thanks to the growth of our readership with each issue and the writers who continue to...
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Jarita Davis on “Alone in Plymouth”
Jarita Davis | Issue 9 In “Alone in Plymouth” (Issue 9), a poem addressed to a Cape Verdean immigrant, Jarita Davis investigates the character of one of the rare Cape Verdean owners of cranberry fields...
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Elicia Epstein on “Life of a Liveaboard”
Elicia Epstein | Issue 1 In this photo essay “Life of a Liveaboard” (Issue 1), Elicia Epstein captures the daily surroundings of a family living in a sailboat off the coast of Maine. In this interview...
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Naseem Jamnia on “If I Were a Boy”
Naseem Jamnia | Issue 7 In Naseem Jamnia’s essay “If I Were a Boy” (Issue 7), she explores her relationship to femininity in the context of her family and childhood. In this interview, she discusses...
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Katie Hagen on “Why I Quit Facebook”
Katie Hagen | Issue 2 In the short essay “Why I Quit Facebook” (Issue 2), Katie Hagen explores the “weirdness” of Facebook–its social loneliness, its alienating attention. In this interview, she...
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Jonathan Travelstead on “The Appalachian Trail: Selected Poems”
Jonathan Travelstead | Issue 4 Jonathan Travelstead explores the austerity of the wilderness in “The Appalachian Trail” (Issue 4), a selection of poems from Conflict Tours. In this interview, he talks...
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Mary Laura Philpott on “Lobsterman”
Philpott | Issue 6 Mary Laura Philpott takes normalcy to task in “Lobsterman” (Issue 6), a quick, witty essay about the misunderstandings and miscalculations of childhood. In this interview, she...
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S.R. Aichinger on “Flea Market”
S.R. Aichinger | Issue 3 In “Flea Market” (Issue 3), S.R. Aichinger recounts a Nebraska flea market, a set of Nancy Drew novels, and the end of a relationship. In the following interview, Aichinger...
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Erin Celello on “Killing Time”
Erin Celello | Issue 4 Erin Celello addresses our uneasy relationship with nature in her essay “Killing Time” (Issue 4) by exploring the various forms of animal death our consciences have to confront....
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Heather Gatley on “Summer of ’76”
Heather Gatley (middle) | Issue 1 In “Summer of ’76” (Issue 1), an unprecedented heat wave laid siege on England and writer Heather Gatley spent her mornings working at a “plant breeding station”. In...
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Jenni Simmons on “A Strange and Common Meal”
In her eloquent essay, “A Strange and Common Meal,” (Issue 6) Jenni Simmons reflects on the many forms “communion” takes, from sacred ritual to Southern suppers. In her interview, Simmons discusses...
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S.R. Aichinger on “Flea Market”
S.R. Aichinger | Issue 3 In “Flea Market” (Issue 3), S.R. Aichinger recounts a Nebraska flea market, a set of Nancy Drew novels, and the end of a relationship. In the following interview, Aichinger...
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Shasta Grant on “The Long Way Home”
Shasta Grant | Issue 2 Shasta Grant writes on adoption, belonging, and letting go in “The Long Way Home” (Issue 2). In her interview, Grant discusses motherhood, her workspaces, and her happiest...
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Robin Chapman on “Oak Ridge” &“Early Days”
Robin Chapman | Issue 1 Based in her home-state of Tennessee, Robin Chapman’s poems “Oak Ridge” & “Early Days” (Issue 1) present morning in its most unsullied form: at home, in nature, as a...
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Jane Katims on “Croissants, Casseroles, a Fine Bordeaux”
In “Croissants, Casseroles, a Fine Bordeaux,” (Issue 3) Jane Katims tells a story about change, memory, artifact and loss, chronicling the joys and challenges of caring for an aging loved one. In her...
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Nico Cassanetti on “Upper West Side”
Nico Cassennetti | Issue 8 In the following interview, Cassanetti discusses inspiration, New York, and her favorite words and phrases. * What inspired you to create this piece? This piece had been...
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Brad Aaron Modlin on “They’ll Try Again Tomorrow”
Brad Aaron Modlin | Issue 5 In “They’ll Try Again Tomorrow,” (Issue 5) Brad Aaron Modlin makes use of surrealist elements and compact, poetic language to voice a collective outcry for escape. In his...
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Richard Gilbert on, “Don’t Call Me Dick”
Richard Gilbert | Issue 6 A confrontation at a cafeteria table in first grade begins Richard Gilbert’s moving essay, “Don’t Call Me Dick,” (Issue 6) about naming, adolescence, and coming in to one’s...
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Penny Guisinger on “Batboy is Disappointed”
Penny Guisinger | Issue 3 Batboy loses a mitten, but mom gains an important lesson about life and the way we live it, in “Batboy is Disappointed,” (Issue 3). In the following interview, Guisinger...
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Holly Allin on “A Single Step”
Holly Allin | Issue 2 Holly Allin’s piece, “A Single Step,” (Issue 2) depicts a biking adventure from Argentina to Alaska, a stray dog and a lesson on courage. In her interview, Allin discusses how...
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