by Stevie Edwards Ithaca, NY – June 24, 2015 What if we built a God out of justice. If we prayed for justice to lead our daily actions before scrambled eggs and […]
“After the Vigil for the Charleston Church Massacre”
DNA: Dyke Now and Always
by Lee Lynch There are certain memories that glow unexpectedly brighter than the other million moments catalogued in my mind. Their significance demands attention, and for good reason. The accumulation of those […]
The Exact Right Thing
by Anne Lamott You know how sometimes you go to church or temple or mosque, or to those little meetings for people like you, who perhaps have tiny control issues, or used […]
Limited Liberty—The “Career Woman”
An interesting take on what it means for a woman to be “liberated.”
Acceptance Speech
by Lynn Powell The radio’s replaying last night’s winners and the gratitude of the glamorous, everyone thanking everybody for making everything so possible, until I want to shush the faucet, dry my […]
Poems About Grace, by Courtney Kampa
by Courtney Kampa Ust Kamenogorsk, The video was soft and grainy as an ultrasound: 11 seconds of a caretaker holding a baby girl up by the armpits like a potted plant. When […]
Please shut up: Why self-promotion as an author doesn’t work.
by Delilah S. Dawson Let’s talk about marketing, shall we? It’s 2012. I’m sitting at a table in the front of the room, a microphone poised to capture my every word. At […]
“The Descent of the Germanwings”– a poem
Download audio file (HammonsDescent.mp3) by Chera Hammons THE DESCENT OF THE GERMANWINGS Musicians know how to write silence, how to lay lines and measures across a white landscape, to show where music […]
Diary of a Writer’s Week
March 23—I wake up in the middle of the night coughing (Florida=allergies), and get up to use the bathroom and get a drink of water. When I lie down again, I am […]
“I Have This Fantasy,” a poem
by Heather Bell I have this fantasy that I am dressed in a leather jacket smoking a cigar just standing there holding Kafka or Adrienne Rich by the spine when an old […]
The Gloria Sirens 