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.

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6 days ago

[Poetry] Three Poems by L. Ward Abel

Ocean Look how the joining of land with sea or its attempt displays in loops. Slight edges gray to off-gray and the point where who can...

May 23

[Book Review] 'Dog Years' By Jeff Kronenfeld, Illustrated by Russ Kazmierczak Jr.

Review by A.M. Larks “I’m a bad dog,” is the opening salvo of Jeff Kronenfeld’s autobiographical graphic novel, Dog Years, illustrated by...

May 16

[Photography] Interview with Brittany Fields

[KELP JOURNAL] Brittany Fields, you are a self-taught photographer. Tell me what that means, and how you got to this point in your...

May 9

[Poetry] Two Poems by William Doreski

Some Kind of Retirement Income Our shabby little beachside souvenir shop cringes with shame. The T-shirts, pennants, postcards, and junk...

May 2

[Fiction] Long Story Short

By Megan Jauregui Eccles Alexandra did not mean to fall through the rabbit hole or win the prince’s hand or impale the queen on her dance...

Apr 25

[Poetry] Two Poems by Aly Allen

Buying Gas with Quarters from my Center Console Though it sets behind me, I watch as the sun turns clouds from cotton to taffy—pink to...

Apr 18

[Poetry] Two Poems by Carly Popenko

Sail One day maybe I will drift A wooden plank, out to sea. Curved, contrived, countering, Encompassed violet (a place beyond you)....

Apr 11

[Poetry] Three Poems by Ryan Scariano

A Small Treasure She said each stone has a face. I walked while even in that sand she was dancing, finding the agates and the sea glass,...

Apr 4

[Poetry] Two Poems by Jim Jas

Two-fold Transition The day faded in behind the warmth of the sun. The leaves fell one by one onto the ground, as if someone was counting...

Mar 28

[Fiction] Melú

by Alexis Levitin James had been gazing, with his usual sense of wonder and exhilaration, at the endless unfurling of the surf, when he...

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