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COLUMN: Catching up with... Crispin Best: "why wouldn't poetry have a power"
The poet and editor reflects on if Alt Lit produced any work of lasting note, how his literary webzine was ended as a result of the UK’s Brexit from the…
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Jan 12
Is Digital Literacy Actual Literacy?
Learning isn’t supposed to be easy. And it won’t be. So let’s take stock of what’s going on around us, and let’s avoid calling something literacy that…
Jan 4
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DISPATCH: Prairie Ashes Release Reading (Inwood Terrace Community Room, NYC)
And why author readings don’t have to suck
Published on Zona Motel
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Nov 30, 2025
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My Definitive Alt Lit Rankings
May 20, 2025
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Reading Next Sunday 11/23 in NYC
Nov 16, 2025
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Unrequested Liner Notes to an Obscure Punk Album from 2006
Oct 5, 2025
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Andrew Duncan Worthington
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The Cleveland Cavaliers Season is Over and an Objective Failure
Jun 1, 2025
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Andrew Duncan Worthington
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The Corporate Takeover in American Schools
Oct 19, 2025
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Andrew Duncan Worthington
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Islamic Center of New York City
Sep 21, 2025
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Uncanny Gangsters
by Andrew Duncan Worthington
Published on Optic Nerve Magazine
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Nov 17, 2025
Reading Next Sunday 11/23 in NYC
and links to stuff from the past 370 days
Nov 16, 2025
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The Analog versus The Digital in Teaching Literacy
We need to remember where we came from. We need to know where we’re at and where we’re going. But we can’t take a shortcut for any of it.
Nov 2, 2025
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Andrew Duncan Worthington
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From the archives : The Golf Course
Short story first published in 2017 at Peach Mag, RIP.
Oct 26, 2025
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Andrew Duncan Worthington
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The Corporate Takeover in American Schools
and What the Alternative Could Look Like
Oct 19, 2025
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Andrew Duncan Worthington
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Unrequested Liner Notes to an Obscure Punk Album from 2006
~1700 words of notes on an album by my band The Algernon Gordon Effect from the last years of the Bush Era.
Oct 5, 2025
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"Everything that is lived in society, the school is going to reflect it": school worker inquiry with Mercedes Martínez
The president of Puerto Rico's largest teachers' union gives her reflections on the past two decades of labor organizing on that colonized island.
Sep 28, 2025
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Andrew Duncan Worthington
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Islamic Center of New York City
Imam Khalid Latif has left NYU's Islamic Center and is forming a new masjid and educational/organizing center a few blocks away.
Sep 21, 2025
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Sports Fandom in the Summer
The hopes of a sports fan are the hopes of a man for mankind.
Sep 7, 2025
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