Category: creative writing
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Belief…by G. Mramor
Can you mock me so, because I wish to believe? Can you attack me so, because I wish to believe? Can you hate me so, because I wish to believe? But what is my belief, that makes me so? That is rapturous and deadly. That in my hand is a paper timeless and in my…
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The father is gone…by G. Mramor
I have not returned to set the bones in my father’s body. I have come, and these with me, we bear the oils and the cloak. Our sisters will make the words and the procession, we will mourn for centuries. But we will take him over these city walls to a city farther and there…
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I Knew you were my Sister by Brittney Bullock
Ever since the frosted tops of mountains cut their names into the sky and struck that brilliant chord, making their magnificent sound heard all throughout the land and almost making us cry, we spilled our guts to each other like little lambs in their final hours, declaring “Freedom” as our name, making us fully willing…
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Where roots spread into oblivions…by G. Mramor
Where roots spread into oblivions,
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Mrs. Sisyphus by Mark J. Mitchell
Mark J. Mitchell studied writing at UC Santa Cruz under Raymond Carver, George Hitchcock and Barbara Hull. His work has appeared in various periodicals over the last thirty five years, as well as the anthologies Good Poems, American Places,Hunger Enough, Retail Woes and Line Drives. His chapbook, Three Visitors has recently been published by Negative…
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They will make cities from us…by G. Mramor
And there I am, like a devil before your eyes, bouncing from lash to lash to make my way down the race of your skin and glide my fingers across your receding lips, yearning for no memory fore memory is not needed to find the trace of your beauty, like my ink through this page,…
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In the year I met you – Monica Murasaki
Monica Murasaki is an inked, nerd, artist, teacher in Madison, WI who works in an alternative school with at-risk youth. In the year I met you In the year I met you Paola, silent Spanish girl
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Spring Procession – Curtis Emery
Curtis Emery is a recent finalist for the Marjorie Sparrow poetry award, garnishing critical assessment from poets such as Brian Turner. Obsessed with the natural world and mysticism of existence, Curtis aims to continue a dialogue with the ever present challenge of poetry: to sketch the abstraction of the self. Spring Procession I came across…
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Stronger at the Start – Jim Davis
JIM DAVIS is a graduate of Knox College and an MFA candidate at Northwestern University. Jim lives, writes, and paints in Chicago, where he reads for TriQuarterly and edits the North Chicago Review. His work has appeared in Seneca Review, Adroit Journal, Sheepshead Review, New Plains Review, Whitefish Review, The Café Review, and Contemporary American…
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GRAB THIS: Ana Carrete’s “pinky promise me this”
Stumbled upon Ana Carrete’s chapbook/piece entitled “pinky promise me this” just today on Twitter. You should check it out! Click here to read/download a PDF version. You can also purchase a copy of her recent book Baby Babe using the links below. A Shaun Gannon reading from “pinky promise me this” (2012). Links http://idonothavepenisenvy.blogspot.com Tweets by…
