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THE WAVE

With an eye toward oceanic, conservationist, and surf-forward themes, The Wave is a delightful mixture of flash and micro fiction; short essays on a variety of topics, including spooky encounters; book reviews; poetry, with a focus on emerging poets; and photography and art. For submission information, please see here.

[Poetry] Fijian Easter with My Daughter by Ruth Mota

[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...

11 hours ago

[Poetry] Breadmaking and the Sea by Jackie McClure

[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 ago

[Art] Interview with Alisa Golden

[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 ago

[Fiction] Ultraviolet

[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 ago

[Poetry] Plastics by Anne Gruner

[Poetry] Plastics by Anne Gruner

revolutionized human life and marine death. A seahorse suffocates in a sandwich bag. engulf the ocean with five trillion tons, equaling...

Apr 10

[Review] I Who Have Never Known Men By Jacqueline Harpman

[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 9

[Poetry] Here by Julia Travers

[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 8

[Art] Interview with Jose Trejo Maya

[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 7

[Fiction] Something in the Water

[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 4

[Poetry] Autopsy by Annika Bratton

[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 3

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