
![[Poetry] Fijian Easter with My Daughter by Ruth Mota](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_ffc4bbb9be5945d186188daea72b28ce~mv2_d_5472_3648_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_ffc4bbb9be5945d186188daea72b28ce~mv2_d_5472_3648_s_4_2.webp)
[Poetry] Fijian Easter with My Daughter by Ruth Mota
We arrive under a mango sky at Naviti Beach greeted by buff men in skirts chanting bula, bula and a chorus of tiny frogs that bray like...
1 hour ago2 min read

![[Poetry] Breadmaking and the Sea by Jackie McClure](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_89ebf277cc5749c89eb2012df6495b50~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_279,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_89ebf277cc5749c89eb2012df6495b50~mv2.webp)
[Poetry] Breadmaking and the Sea by Jackie McClure
It gets away from you if you don't attend to it right away, takes over. Punched, it merely springs back, somehow even bigger than before....
2 days ago1 min read

![[Art] Interview with Alisa Golden](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_44562fddac56473fb63ec047bb55cdd9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_44562fddac56473fb63ec047bb55cdd9~mv2.webp)
[Art] Interview with Alisa Golden
[KELP JOURNAL] Alisa your quilts are lovely. So lovely, can you talk about how you got into this art form? Was it learned from a relative...
3 days ago5 min read

![[Fiction] Ultraviolet](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a44d39bb6d834090a8ba188366f33ee4.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/a44d39bb6d834090a8ba188366f33ee4.webp)
[Fiction] Ultraviolet
When they forced our neighborhood into coordinated retreat, my dad and I started stealing contact lenses. We didn’t like our eye doctor,...
6 days ago10 min read

![[Poetry] Plastics by Anne Gruner](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_d3e275566e7d475596b69e6a6b1170eb~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_279,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_d3e275566e7d475596b69e6a6b1170eb~mv2.webp)
[Poetry] Plastics by Anne Gruner
revolutionized human life and marine death. A seahorse suffocates in a sandwich bag. Â engulf the ocean with five trillion tons, equaling...
Apr 101 min read

![[Review] I Who Have Never Known Men By Jacqueline Harpman](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_db6b91899ebd46ea8f083530428c69ca~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_186,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_db6b91899ebd46ea8f083530428c69ca~mv2.webp)
[Review] I Who Have Never Known Men By Jacqueline Harpman
By Sarah Denison Shortly after the 2024 election, I, like so many other disappointed women, picked up the 2022 reprint edition of  I Who...
Apr 95 min read

![[Poetry] Here by Julia Travers](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_4d0fd1c7ba824524bddc77ef874cbcce~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_4d0fd1c7ba824524bddc77ef874cbcce~mv2.webp)
[Poetry] Here by Julia Travers
between me and the present moment I wear a thin, doubting armor which the sea dissolves and washes away  water is constant arrival    ...
Apr 81 min read

![[Art] Interview with Jose Trejo Maya](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_9afb524147f74e52942809115737f66a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_279,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_9afb524147f74e52942809115737f66a~mv2.webp)
[Art] Interview with Jose Trejo Maya
[KELP JOURNAL] Jose, your installations are eye-catching. I love how you have designed them all to be semi-to-fully transparent, that we...
Apr 76 min read

![[Fiction] Something in the Water](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_68ad8f352aa545a1bd8ece264015d543~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_68ad8f352aa545a1bd8ece264015d543~mv2.webp)
[Fiction] Something in the Water
By Patricia Gimer   It was a calm, sunny day for the Polar Bear Dip, but the air was bone chilling. The starting gun exploded and Anne...
Apr 44 min read

![[Poetry] Autopsy by Annika Bratton](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/838f915f51803333b016c2fed73f5c42.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/838f915f51803333b016c2fed73f5c42.webp)
[Poetry] Autopsy by Annika Bratton
It’s all here. Swollen whale tongue, sandcaked and sunripe, split open with estuary blessing to sweet rot  Chewing on philosophy at the...
Apr 31 min read

![[Essay] Breathing Books](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f265e02b3d2d4ba99f58f93d017dd12b.jpg/v1/fill/w_279,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/f265e02b3d2d4ba99f58f93d017dd12b.webp)
[Essay] Breathing Books
America happens to me. It happens when other places don’t. There’s magic. You need to look at the neon cords of traffic from a hotel up...
Apr 26 min read

![[Poetry] Holdfast by Gerry Sloan](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_bcb6eaf5ea2d448ebd5626160eb1a29c~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_278,h_209,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_bcb6eaf5ea2d448ebd5626160eb1a29c~mv2.webp)
[Poetry] Holdfast by Gerry Sloan
is what anchors marine vegetation instead of roots for drawing nutrients if this were soil instead of sand, keeps it  from drifting into...
Apr 11 min read