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Oct 4, 20231 min read
Firefly, a Poem by Katherine Gotthardt*
The world could use more fireflies. Not in a jar, but brightening that space – you know, the one between the space, the night we stare...
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Oct 4, 20232 min read
Hanamo, a Poem by Flo Au*
Cluster bombs of ashes and metals and petals of you and me and him and her suffocate the air in the blizzards of fears swiveling our...
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Oct 4, 20231 min read
Stay Till the Dawn, You Might Get the Sun, a Poem by Fatima Abdullahi*
I gave my country a home in my chest. With my first cry and my father's signature, I stamped my mark into its soil, & clothed myself with...
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Sep 29, 20233 min read
My New Father Has More and Better, a Short Story by Awara Fernandez
Our sons lived for five years in an orphanage in the rainforest of Puerto Maldonado, Peru after their biological parents died. When our...
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Sep 15, 20232 min read
The Strength You Draw from Regrets, a Poem by Sofiul Azam
Only those reluctant dullards who became wise at the expense of innocence can understand the inference that the sourness of mangrove...
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Sep 8, 20236 min read
Lost Boys, a Short Story by Ann van Wijgerden
Chaos. Wrenching at her. It will sweep her away if it can. Clari’s left hand grips the gummy steering wheel, her right the stubborn gear...
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Sep 1, 20231 min read
As the Crow Flies, a Prose Poem by Joe Bisicchia
Feather instead my wings. All the way home, over the streets, for here we are. In truth, none alone. Christ, O Truth, take my hand.
Ann Christine Tabaka
Aug 11, 20231 min read
I Will Take You with Me, a Poem by Ann Christine Tabaka
I will take you with me beyond dark
doorways propped open with slivers
of light. Along winding trails in a blackened forest
Gary Beck
Jul 28, 20238 min read
Landlord Attack, Short Story by Gary Beck
Jaime Perez crept up the fire escape as quietly as he could and stopped at the third floor. He leaned over the guard rail to the kitchen...
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Jun 16, 20231 min read
Make a Difference! a Poem by D.R. James
—a villanelle to commencement speakers everywhere Tonight, fatigue’s grim flower unfurls, but Gandhi, gunned down, had this to say: “Be...
Katie Annarino
May 5, 20236 min read
In Between and Far Away, an Essay by Katie Annarino
The large wall of windows on the fifth floor of the Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center overlooks the corner of a congested...
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Dec 9, 20221 min read
Magnolia and Cherry, a Poem by Marjorie Maddox
-Spring 2021 Buds burnt by cold, they open anyway, both pink and blackened, facing the spring. Courage, not innocence: magnolia and...
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Nov 18, 20221 min read
Block, a Poem by Erin Covey-Smith
The blank slate where I want to write sorrow for the black bodies taken, where I want to write worry for the invisible vector tornadoeing...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
Sitting in Darkness, a Poem by Russell Willis
If you are sitting in darkness open your eyes turn around to see if there’s light behind you or above or below or to the side not that...
Reed Venrick
Apr 16, 20213 min read
A Famed Garden in Tokyo Near the Bay
Written by Reed Venrick. Take the leafy, shaded path—follow the boardwalk, enter the Nakajima Teahouse—a name translating to "in the...
VaL Smit
Mar 12, 20211 min read
Waiting for Spring, a Poem by Val Smit
When the frosts of winter had ceased Its snows melted Its cutting winds ameliorated; The pain will subside Our blood in our veins no...
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