The spring I turned thirty-five and took up running - Michael Favala Goldman
Cooper River Park, Cherry Hill, NJ for my mother I was standing with the river rats, everyone saying what state of marriage or divorce...
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- Jan 9
- 2 min
3rd Place Fall Poetry Winner Prometheus, Daughter of Immigrants - an. phan
I don’t think I have a motherland, just a strange monster in my imagination, stitched together with a Frankeinsteinian arrogance to...
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- Jan 7
- 4 min
2nd Place Fall Poetry Contest Winner: NINE TYPES OF SILENCE - Alison Davis
1. We all share the same reason for being here. The chairs are arranged in a circle. The doctor seats herself in one of them. The plastic...
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- Jan 5
- 2 min
1st Place Fall Poetry Winner: Saint Clément’s Drug Unit, 1969 - Jonathan Callies
After Mary Ellen Mark At the Alano Club, a child of seven, I remember my mother sharing with a group of strangers and family that the...
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- Jan 3
- 1 min
The Tale of a Fat Ugly Crow on a May Afternoon - Joanne Jagoda
In front of my living room window, on a splendid May afternoon, warm and sunny, a fat black crow rapturously caws over its good fortune....
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- Jan 1
- 1 min
When He Was Smiling - Emma Newman-Holden
You were never afraid of him when he was smiling How could you be? The curve of his lips, begging yours to curve as well The creases...
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- Dec 30, 2022
- 2 min
I wish we were having dinner together right now - Padya Paramita
Like a knife sliding down a slab of butter that’s been sitting out in a counter on a hot day My brown eyes melt into your green. We hold...
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- Dec 21, 2022
- 1 min
It’s a Full Cycle - Julien Griswold
Hold me, hold me, hold me like my laundry machine. My washer and my dryer and my mother who taught me how to fold sheets. They require...
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- Dec 17, 2022
- 1 min
hiccups - Ayin Es
this morning I watched a crow on a telephone wire act strangely I’m pretty sure he had the hiccups there was no other explanation I...
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- Nov 24, 2022
- 1 min
The person behind the counter - Swetha Amit
The grocery shop is packed with treasures and I spy on the box of goodies on the counter next to you they look delicious and tempting...
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- Nov 22, 2022
- 1 min
A Question to the Tea Leaves - Ruth Towne
In the teacup, only a teaspoon of liquid remains, almost room temperature now. My left hand lifts the cup, my eyelids drop for a moment....
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- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
I Was Eight When We Met - Paula Praeger
One-hundredth birthday balloon suspended over her throne at her daughter’s dining room table laden with eats. Centenarian reigns. Talk,...
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- Nov 16, 2022
- 1 min
I am a contested territory - Julie Benesh
Was she pretty, poor, ugly, rich? Hard- working or lucky? Her 7s look like boarding school in Switzerland, but her...
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- Nov 14, 2022
- 2 min
Signs - Laura Daniels
The last thing I remember as my eight-year-old head hit the pillow was that we had to move. The landlord sold our home, and the new owner...
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- Nov 12, 2022
- 1 min
Pilgrim’s Compass - Barry Casey
I wanted to be ten when I was eight, I wanted to be eighteen. I wanted more when I was young. I craved a mind which opened naturally to...
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- Nov 8, 2022
- 2 min
Dreaming New York - John Horváth
It's where we all go, where the dough uprises, becomes bread. Thirty-and-nine. Scratching my balls at a Ballenchine ballet. The...
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- Nov 4, 2022
- 1 min
What I Remember About Dying - Evyenia Downey
1. Sweat slick. Firm grip. A knuckle carved trail to an open mouth. Silent oh, but my god, I’m sorry for not calling your name. 2. Pop as...
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Taming of the Curls - Justine Defever
Makeover montages and infomercials of the early 2000s taught me beauty is just a flat iron away— Fix unsightly frizzy hair by scorching...
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- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min
Night Hike - Shae Krispinsky
For Frank Stanford Night of crisp hay, full moon, warm wind, hiking around the reservoir. We didn’t yet know what sacred meant, but I...
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- Oct 27, 2022
- 1 min
I am sitting on the floor in your kitchen - Rebecca Crager
With your friends and I’m watching you through the doorway while you talk with her on the bed / Does my hair not shine like it did when...
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