Each month we’ll feature cool, creative women we admire in a new segment called “Siren Says.” We’ll ask them a quick question or two based on that month’s theme. October’s theme is […]
Siren Says: Stand-Up Librarian Meredith Myers
An Open Letter to an Unborn Baby: Honest, Brave, & Heartbreaking
From reddit user scaredthrowingaway: Little Thing: I can feel you in there. I’ve got twice the appetite and half the energy. It breaks my heart that I don’t feel the enchantment that […]
All the Love You Want
ALL THE LOVE YOU WANT by Katherine Riegel (first published in the Cream City Review, Spring 2010) I noticed him looking at me when I pushed through the door to the rest […]
Homework: A poem by Terry Godbey
HOMEWORK by Terry Godbey The last time I stared at a sonogram screen, my husband held my hand. We watched the flickers of our son’s heartbeat, admired his runner’s legs that […]
October: Believe-It-Or-Not Night Terrors
This month, join us for a month of believe-it-or-not night terrors, everything that scares us silly, blows our minds, and reminds us we’re lucky to be alive. They used to say that […]
“For Those Who Would Kill Chickens”
by Amy Miller on Rattle as part of the series Poets Respond Written in response “to those four teenagers who broke into a Foster Farms barn near Fresno on Tuesday night and brutally […]
Monster Mash: Three poems by Ruth Foley
Dear Bride How I loved your swan hiss and screech, your electric hair. I loved the ragged strips of cloth that bound your fragile arms, as if you could not trust […]
Now “Turnpike Psycho” can be yours!
Originally posted on Lisa Lanser Rose:
Click to Buy! A number of you have been asking, and I’m so grateful and happy–The Florida Review with my award-winning essay, “Turnpike Psycho,” is now…
Dressing Sal Mineo
By Susan Lilley I watched Rebel Without a Cause on TV one late college night when I learned Sal Mineo was our next big draw at Once Upon a Stage dinner theatre. […]
WFD: Kitchen Table: A History by Jill Talbot
Originally posted on Writers for Dinner:
Kitchen Table: A History by Jill Talbot I thought the refrigerator was a stove. From the pictures the landlady e-mailed of the apartment we’d be renting…
The Gloria Sirens 