Poetry
“Go for Gin” by Audrey Gradzewicz
09 October 2020 on Poetryfor Lauren B. /Lawrin B. At dusk, when regal moths kill themselves ignoblyon the bare yellow bulb of your porchlight, I name futures like racehorses. Alphabet Soupis the future in...
Storystorm
What’s Your Process? Fiction Readers Respond
07 October 2020 on Blog, StorystormOne of my favorite parts of an MFA program is getting to know other writers on a more nuanced level--beyond interpersonal interactions or their work alone. I get to know...
Fiction
“Donya Zaragoza” by Soleil Davíd
02 October 2020 on FictionDonya Zaragoza, née Castillo, allowed herself to be whisked away from her beloved Batangas family home to the southern province of Bicol because she knew that marrying a Zaragoza meant...
Poetry
“Days of Hand to Mouth” by Dennis Cummings
25 September 2020 on PoetryWe worked until dawn back then—Afros and longhairs on the loading dock,mocking the small paychecks that cameeach Friday at shift’s end, the last truck now hollowed out, the bass metal...
Storystorm
The Value of Sad Stories
23 September 2020 on Blog, StorystormI grew up in a laughing house. Granted, it was sometimes a yelling house, or a screaming house, or a crying house – but the important thing was, my family...
Fiction
“A Wedding in Aleppo” by M. K. Martin
22 May 2020 on FictionWe are having a wedding in our restaurant. All morning, my younger brother, Hamid, has been scampering like a skinny, tail-less monkey, hanging lights in our cypress trees. We have...
Nonfiction
Thoughts While Waiting by Elizabeth Templeman
15 May 2020 on NonfictionWhat did I think, then, in those years biding my time, waiting? Waiting: for life to get serious, whatever that might mean; for maturity, whatever that would feel like. But...
Poetry
“Ground Rules” by Tim DeJong
08 May 2020 on PoetryThe boy sits in a field.He is four or maybe three.Red-shirted, blue-shorted, he arranges his gathered trifles, loose sticks, wasp’s wing, snail’s shell,sifts fragments too minor to signify.The weedy grass around...
Blog
It’s Okay to Not Write a Book During the Pandemic
01 May 2020 on BlogI’m not sure what I was expecting—maybe with more (read: all) time at home, I would be nothing short of prolific, à la “Room of One’s Own” at last. I...
Poetry
“God as an Illinois hops farm” by Anna Girgenti
24 April 2020 on Poetryin early July, just before harvest, mud on the frilly white hemof my sundress. Barefoot. We squeeze the last drops of beer from the keg — my little brother barely...
Nonfiction
“Suffragette” by Amy Stonestrom
10 April 2020 on NonfictionMy second favorite thing about going to church was coming home to the bubbling carrots, onions and pork or beef that stewed while we were putting in our time on...
Poetry
“Canyon Fire” by Patricia Caspers
03 April 2020 on PoetryAnother August morning the sky opensits smoke-heavy wings, and after so many years of silence, we hello each other in the cafe,as if not knowing the wooded placewhere we parked...
