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Poetry by KB Ballentine Oh, my grandmother’s hibiscus!Her begonias were bright and beautiful,but her hibiscus was magic. Sunbakedand salt-sprayed, filaments… Read more: Memory, a Satellite

Poetry by Diane M. Williams Mary Oliver drove through Linden,Alabama, and wrote about hulking birdsof prey in a field outside… Read more: Not Mary Oliver’s Linden

Nonfiction by Olivia McGill We were at a bar with my partner Sam’s friends. Cal showed up late in the… Read more: At the Dive Bar After Thanksgiving

Poetry by Tracy Duffy Like a…rat-a-tap-tapfrom the drummers—drumgoes the night-time, in the forestlike the crickets—humChiming in, the hootingof the owl… Read more: Midnight Music

Poetry by Steven Deutsch My grandmother liked nothingbetter than to walk in the rain.On days when most were calculatinghow best… Read more: The Sound of the Rain

Nonfiction by Linda Petrucelli I spot my friend Malia among a squadron of women wearing flowery muumuus, shooing flies off… Read more: Yokwe!

Poetry by Laurie Didesch For my Mom The radiant light intensifies the blue sky. It filtersdown from on high. Baby… Read more: Baby Mama in Autumn

Nonfiction by Bonnie Demerjian has followed you everywhere, like a faithful dog, overfilled with things too useful to be filed… Read more: The Basket

Poetry by Alice Collinsworth I start the journey to see him before dawn, a long stretchof interstate highways and two-lane… Read more: Sestina for a Beloved Son

Poetry by Brian Christopher Giddens At the end of the day, I go downstairs to where Jasper lays sprawled across… Read more: Good Night, Jasper