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[Poetry] Two Poems by Stephen Braile

ON PIER AVENUE Of the plunging surf breaking off the Pier Avenue shoreline, in this part of the beach, there is a severe undertow...

[Fiction] Hypoxia

by Jake Dean The wave lands a meter in front of her and she’s thankful the lip doesn’t detonate on her back or on her surfboard, which...

[Poetry] Two Poems by Patricia Furstenberg

Fishes Swam in Straight Lines In the beginning, the sky was tall and blue and quiet and no birds dared cross it. My hands lay quietly in...

[Poetry] Two Poems by Peter Kirn

ii. i can't even remember if in the dream we had made it out alive the language of the land we were in or whether there were others--...

[Poetry] Three Poems by Yuan Changming

Geophysical Circulation From the heart of The Northern Gyroscope Pumps out the blue blood of The Pacific With its spirit of peace,...

[Essay] Sea Change by Sarah Das Gupta

Huge breakers crashed as they hit the sand, breaking and spreading foam and froth over the beach like the freckled tongues of some...

Kelp Journal Presents: Birth of the Endless Summer

On November 17th, 2023 Kelp Journal hosted directed Richard Yellend in Pacific Grove at a red carpet screening of his indie film, Birth...

[Poetry] Two Poems by Mark Murphy

The Inundation of Dreams The old man insists, the ocean will come back while his grandchildren are dreaming. While his sons prepare dawn...

[Photography] Interview with KJ Hannah Greenberg

[KELP JOURNAL] We have a lot to talk about, so let’s jump right in. I love these photos. They have such a mood about them. I think the...