[Book Review] Carmen and Grace
by Daniela Montes-Bellows Carmen and Grace by Melissa Coss Aquino is a coming-of-age story set in Bronx, New York set during the 1990’s....
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- Jan 17
- 3 min
[Essay] If it be Your Will
By Sam Allen I hated southern Idaho. I had to go there. A few years ago, with my dad, for a full six weeks. Desert, high desert, little...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
[Book Review] It Came from the Closet
by A.E. Santana It Came from the Closet published by The Feminist Press and edited by Joe Valles guide readers through a collection of...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 10 min
[Interview] with Jane Smiley
by David M. Olsen Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Thousand Acres, graced us with an interview where we got to chat...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
[Poetry] Three Poems by Genevieve Creedon
The Coast Polished pebbles pleat the earth: stream-shaped skin the color of all unknowns shimmering under a sky so grey it nearly...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 19 min
[Fiction] Modern Corrections
by Rodney E. Schmidt It was midnight. Gloria stood on the balcony ledge, yelling at the culprit who hid in the darkness. She begged him...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 10 min
[Fiction] The Roses & the Weeds
By Elinora Westfall Ollie talks. Not that Bridget listens. She’s too absorbed in the mundane task of fastening her bra, a simple action...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 7 min
[Essay] Waking to the Wild
by Zoe Boyer Early Spring Having returned to Chicago for the summer, I spend most of each day curled on my parents’ couch, drifting in...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 8 min
[Fiction] Floodplain and High-Hazard Zone Regulations
By Isabel Yacura They found the body in the creek when the tide went out. They called it a creek on the island, anyway—it was more like a...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 13 min
[Essay] On the Edge
By Christina Devin Vojta A violent surf pounded the rocky shore, where I stood with Scott at the southernmost tip of the South Island of...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
[Book Review] Lungfish by Mehgan Gilliss
by A.M. Larks Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss is as interesting a book as its namesake species would suggest. It is a book of many things:...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 16 min
[Fiction] Tastes of Freedom
By Andréa Ferrell Gannon Claire didn’t want Milo tagging along; he was too old, too quiet, his face too sun damaged, his lips too fleshy....
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
[Poetry] Three Poems by Rebecca Nelson
Ghost Nets Between moonlight and water, my ghosts scroll through the sea with spent fishing line, trapped creatures. If moonlight could...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 12 min
[Fiction] Jellyfish Summer
by Veronica Good You open the first day of summer like a book. The first contact with the crashing waves outside your beach house makes...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 3 min
[Poetry] Three poems by Ceridwen Hall
divers/talkers USS Squalus Retrieval Mission, 1939 they descend in pairs, alone and not in the cold: darkness they wear lead shoes and...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 10 min
[Essay] Eureka in the Ozarks: A Blanchard Springs Caverns Excursion
By Bronte Pearson The sun illuminated the fledgling leaves that peeked from barren branches. The Ozark forest was beautiful, even if...
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- Dec 6, 2022
- 1 min
[Poetry] Two poems by Lori Zybala
Confluence Framing landscape, rocky existence Bodies of water, twisting ~ turning Path of direction known Single channel, controlled...
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- Nov 29, 2022
- 5 min
[Fiction] Situation on National Highway 52
By Ziaul Moid Khan The tires of my polar white Renault Duster screeched before coming to an abrupt halt on National Highway 52. I had...
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- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
[Photography] Interview with Mackenzie Gellner
by A.M. Larks Click on each image to view at full size. [KELP JOURNAL] I always like to start out asking photographers what they look for...
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- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
[Poetry] Two poems by Gabrielle Grilli
Ode to the Horseshoe Crab Muck colored solid shell you shed & swap: a cycle—carapace sectioned in thirds, ten eyes spanning top of spiked...
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