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[Poetry] Fireflies by Philip Lisi
I Summers ago, you ran wild in the yard– Oh, how you made me laugh, sister! Giddy as a sprite, chasing after fireflies with an oversized...
May 131 min read
![[Photography] Interview with Harrison Zeiberg](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_46519547c9504a898608ff5492f7a0ce~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_46519547c9504a898608ff5492f7a0ce~mv2.webp)
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[Photography] Interview with Harrison Zeiberg
[KELP JOURNAL] Harrison, you and I debated a bit about what photos to include in this show. We talked about themes and perspectives;...
May 125 min read
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[Fiction] Shadows on the Shoreline
By Paige Johnson People throw dirt on Tampa, Florida, all day long, calling it America’s armpit—or raunchier, ranker body parts—but my...
May 912 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Pamela Hobart Carter](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_6b1489b85f324d1d9c1630aff8959bd5~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_6b1489b85f324d1d9c1630aff8959bd5~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Pamela Hobart Carter
SISTERS after Galway Kinnell  They walk next to next, sister and sister, and tell the tale of all they know, while the tide...
May 82 min read
![[Poetry] Where You’ll Find Me by Peggy Heitmann](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a394701f8d754f4685e5578bda5e0df9.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/a394701f8d754f4685e5578bda5e0df9.webp)
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[Poetry] Where You’ll Find Me by Peggy Heitmann
If you are looking for me, you will find me near the ocean under a purple velvet sky sprinkled in a star shower  of dreamy notions....
May 61 min read
![[Photography] Interview with Sarah E N Kohrs](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_ad1199e4e8654be5967c6990b558c8cf~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_ad1199e4e8654be5967c6990b558c8cf~mv2.webp)
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[Photography] Interview with Sarah E N Kohrs
[KELP JOURNAL] Sarah, these photos are stunning, so let’s dive right in. All of the photographs focus intensely on texture. I love it....
May 54 min read
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[Fiction] Paradise    Â
By Alexis Levitin  It was a long bus ride. Everyone slumbered as best they could, and finally they found themselves having coffee in a...
May 212 min read
![[Poetry] After the Storm by Joanne DurhamÂ](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_b9c02de73dc94027a3c10e6c3ce50608~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_b9c02de73dc94027a3c10e6c3ce50608~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] After the Storm by Joanne DurhamÂ
the newness of each of us    out from shelter -- a woman with walking stick stoops for sea glass thinner smoother     algae strung...
May 11 min read
![[Poetry] Run-off by Juliana McCullen](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/caf7d02d205a4d9d9d01d2f8928c96de.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/caf7d02d205a4d9d9d01d2f8928c96de.webp)
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[Poetry] Run-off by Juliana McCullen
Take a day where you can only look at the ocean. The fabled disgusting run-off from the streets of LA make an entire coastline...
Apr 291 min read
![[Poetry] Ocean's Whisper by Jovina Zion Pradeep](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_37276b70f0954e759f32085b57f52db7~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_37276b70f0954e759f32085b57f52db7~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Ocean's Whisper by Jovina Zion Pradeep
Basking in blue waters, Bliss the breeze breathes. Within seashells a history: Stories of the place where Life first unfolds. Â Rays of...
Apr 241 min read
![[Poetry] Two Poems by Jonathan Fletcher](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_ee9a4a042efe46e2b23020874ffdecea~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_ee9a4a042efe46e2b23020874ffdecea~mv2.webp)
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[Poetry] Two Poems by Jonathan Fletcher
Immersed  In a sea of tragedies, I think it unfair to dwell on one.  But 13,000 feet deep underwater is no small matter, when trapped...
Apr 222 min read
![[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_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_ffc4bbb9be5945d186188daea72b28ce~mv2_d_5472_3648_s_4_2.webp)
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[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...
Apr 172 min read
![[Poetry] Breadmaking and the Sea by Jackie McClure](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_89ebf277cc5749c89eb2012df6495b50~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_89ebf277cc5749c89eb2012df6495b50~mv2.webp)
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[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....
Apr 151 min read
![[Art] Interview with Alisa Golden](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52c352_44562fddac56473fb63ec047bb55cdd9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/52c352_44562fddac56473fb63ec047bb55cdd9~mv2.webp)
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[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...
Apr 145 min read
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[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,...
Apr 1110 min read
![[Poetry] Plastics by Anne Gruner](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_d3e275566e7d475596b69e6a6b1170eb~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/11062b_d3e275566e7d475596b69e6a6b1170eb~mv2.webp)
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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