All posts tagged "Writing"
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Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Book Review)
By David B. Green, Jr. I have learned through the process of story telling and sharing that we all come from various walks of life...
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Poem Suite: Retold
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, three poets consider...
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Why Is Academic Writing So Beautiful? Notes on Black Feminist Scholarship
By Emily Lordi The title of this piece responds to Joshua Rothman’s recent essay for the New Yorker blog, “Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?”,...
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Excerpts from “Let Her: Words, Matter” by Ames Hawkins
I. Julie punched the buttons on the radio, hard double-clicks, propelling the station marker back and forth between the rock and roll of WLLZ and...
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Excerpts from Sir by HR Hegnauer
Dear Sir, I am afraid to say, I love you — a collection of simple sounds. I know this is the softest room in...
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An excerpt from The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom
eraser: She found it in the corner. She picked it up. Brought it close. This happened at a time when her head was unusually...
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3 poems by Lilith Latini
Fact of a Flat Tire’s rim against rubber against pavement. Car hunched over its warped wheel, and nothing to do but lift the thing...
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3 poems by Jordan Rice
Tresses My father rings our apple trees with his own urine, says the scent will scare off starving deer which strip his low...
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Fiction Feature: CORONA by Bushra Rehman
Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer) Corona, Queens 1983 Corona, and I’m not talking about the beer. I’m talking about a little village...
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Fiction Flash: Lyssa in Limbo
By Michelle Auerbach (Excerpt from The Third Kind of Horse) I stared hard at Melody, at the blonde tips of her hair and I knew,...
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Love Notes in Four Parts
By Katrina Otuonye Like Letters …..I used to have dreams where I would read anonymous letters sent to my house. …..“I do not love you,”...
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She Called Me a Poet
By Candy Taaffe August 9, 2009 Finally official. . The love and mutual respect is what inspires the truth, ………….and the desire ………….to make happen...
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Fiction Feature: "Planets" by Kaitlyn Greenidge
By Kaitlyn Greenidge We the only girls who leave our walk. We the only girls that travel. All the other girls on our walk,...
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Featured Poet: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs bacche kā pōtRā bloom, the dandelion dance of Keisha’s mane. a Wave of bush. her kitchen pearls &...
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Feminists We Love: Kristen E. Nelson
Kristen E. Nelson is the author of Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures Press, 2012). She has recently published work in The Volta, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky Journal, Trickhouse, and Everyday Genius, among...
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Book Review: Marci Blackman's "Tradition"
By Quincy Scott Jones Town and Country: A Review of Marci Blackman’s Tradition (Water Street Press, 2013) In the most brilliant crimes stories, the detective must travel,...
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Confession
By Nancy Kricorian Back when I earned my MFA in Poetry at Columbia, the majority of the students were women, and nearly all of our...
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The Many-Headed Hydra: A Sentimental Nature Poem
By Debbie Hu oh ghost of double-headed neglected sunflower... are you arching your spine towards this literally splendiferous sunrise, are you inclining your double ghost...
