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This is an experiment in online literary and artistic collaboration. The title comes from an Iñupiaq word that means "sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst."
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Words of Power
September-December 2009
Editors: Beth Adams and Dave Bonta
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2009 chapbook contest finalists
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Economy
June-August 2009
Editors: Anna Dickie and Pamela Hart
Mutating the Signature
January-April 2009
Editors: Dana Guthrie Martin and Nathan Moore

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qarrtsiluni news blog
- Pamela Johnson Parker interviewed at Read Write Poem November 9, 2009
- Submissions open for qarrtsiluni's Health issue November 2, 2009
- K. Alma Peterson's first chapbook garners glowing review October 26, 2009
- Howie Good's new e-chap is all heart October 24, 2009
- New collaborative chapbook by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney October 23, 2009
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Oh, that’s stunning!
I like this better every time I look at it. And am also deeply unsettled by it.
Now that is what I call an image to die for. You do not see many as ambiguously chilling as that.
Wow. Gorgeous.
Amazing.
I can feel those sharp edges and hear the sound my nails make on these surfaces.