“Celebrities are just like us until they aren’t, until such intrusion involves the celebrity woman’s body, in intimate poses, splayed across the internet for delectation and debauchery and debate.” by Roxane Gay […]
Metaphors by Sylvia Plath I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s big with […]
Have you seen this short essay by Julia Benson Connolly? It’s perfect for our Labor Day theme. Enjoy.
by Faith Shearin When you are dreaming of the name you are also dreaming of who they might be. They are invented in darkness — under cloak of skin — and, for the […]
So much depends upon three banty roosters chuckling to themselves in the mock orange sunrise that peeps in from East Tampa. For weeks I walk off mourning as dawn feathers the sky […]
Work it, Girl! All through September, the Sirens will be singing songs of labor, whether it be childbirth labor, laboring toward artistic goals, or laboring to be the best selves we can […]
By Amy Shackelford Note: I unapologetically call out the Greek system in this post. It doesn’t mean I don’t have friends that love their sorority (I do!), or that I’m a ruthless […]
By Kim Cruts My grandmother told me to join a sorority because she was worried that I couldn’t make friends on my own. I was a weird kid and not exactly a […]
I heard her crying from the ancient oak, the tree where a hive of bees had set up shop huge as a fruit crate. Eating lunch on the veranda did […]
I’ve heard how they claim the Congress Street Bridge: like folded fur handkerchiefs hundreds hang on the underbelly. At dusk they swoop out to sport and poach and cloak the sky in […]
The Gloria Sirens 