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[Poetry] the architect of the water
By Ajise Vincent “she was free in her wildness. she was a wanderess, a drop of free water. she belonged to no man & to no city”...
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[Essay] Wise Words
By Wendy K. Mages I’m glad Barbara, my thesis advisor, prefers incandescent lamps to florescent lights. Her office is dimly lit; I can...
Nov 281 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Frank William Finney
Crab Trap (for Jackie Bastian) Sand in our sandals. Two sirens in tow. One warm summer evening. The stars all aglow. We paired...
Nov 264 min read
[Interview] with Kimberly Castelino
[KELP JOURNAL] Kimberly, I usually like to hear about how artists found their form. So, what is your origin story? How did you come to...
Nov 211 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Arabella Sarver
two oceans august. glimpses of life beyond the bridge. warmth dancing over burnt skin. a silver ring hangs in midair. garnets, pearls...
Nov 192 min read
[Book Review] On Shifting Shoals by Joanne Durham
By Carolyn Martin Joanne Durham’s entertaining and inspiring chapbook, On Shifting Shoals, epitomizes Wallace Stevens’ famous...
Nov 141 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by K.T. Mills
Fanfare The carpenter bees thriving in the eaves and the obliterating sun, the futility of a breeze, the roses with hooked thorns, the...
Nov 125 min read
[Fiction] Santee before the first of storms
By R. P. Singletary The gator submerged back into the muddy banks of the Santee , and I paddled my kayak east of the sand bars,...
Nov 72 min read
[Poetry] Three Poems by Glenis Moore
Sea dreaming When the sun beats down in Cambridge I long to see the sea, to taste the salt that's in the air, to paddle leisurely. To...
Nov 52 min read
[Essays] Coral on Their Bleaching
By Cypress Wilde Their appendages stretched out in front of me, white and prickly. It is getting much, much warmer here in the Florida...
Oct 312 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Christina Hennemann
Tidal Prophecy: Gezeitenwelle We don’t know the sea, you say, gazing from the sky-stretching pier. Bricks towering over rippled sand,...
Oct 293 min read
[Photography] Interview with John Repp
[KELP JOURNAL] Let’s jump right in: your bio says that you are a “folk photographer” and I don’t think I have ever heard that term. Can...