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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, Invitation: R. S. V. P. by Fred Wilbur 2 days, 21 hours ago
Submissions for the annual Streetlight Magazine Poetry Award are open and I want to encourage participation from everyone, those new to our magazine as well as regular readers. The closing date for this […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Maan Singh Gabbar by Reeya Banerjee 5 days, 22 hours ago
It was about 2:45 a.m., and Sherin George sat miserably on a ratty sofa in a cabin in rural Uttarakhand State in North India. She was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to lie down and sleep, b […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post, Looking Ahead by Julia Chiapella 5 days, 22 hours ago
On the last day of the world
the children laugh. How
can they know? They pick up
stones, pockmarked, flat,
dap them through rising
waters, their voices
littered with glee.On the last day of the world
no […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, We Need to Talk by Erika Raskin 1 week, 3 days ago
People have lost their minds.
Seriously.
They’re comparing masks to yellow stars and saying vaccine passports are signs of tyranny, refusing to comply as a sign of resistance.
Please.
My dog […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post, For Friends Who Lost Both Children and Lingering Over Coffee, 2 poems by Kevin Norwood 1 week, 5 days ago
FOR FRIENDS WHO LOST BOTH CHILDREN
………………….God is so omnipresent. . . that God is an angel in an angel,
………………….and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw. . […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, Doubts About the Enterprise by Angela J. Latham 1 week, 5 days ago
I can’t tell if it’s a naturally recurring feature of my post-mastectomy slog, or just another variation of my chronic struggle to feel relevant. Four weeks out from surgery I stare at my screen and write sen […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post, Deconstructing My Process by Jury S. Judge 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Art creation is an organic process for me, where inspiration takes the lead and my hands merely follow. The traditional media in my repertoire includes pen, colored pencil, and acrylic paint. I am also […]
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Elizabeth Howard replied to the topic Chroma Opens October Show in the forum Site-Wide Activity 2 weeks, 4 days ago
“Pandemonium: Postcards from the Edge“ asks artists to take an ordinary U.S. Mail postcard and paint, draw or mark it in some way. The resulting missives can focus on the political, societal or public health events that have rocked our collective world since March 2020, or they can highlight an artist’s individual practice in isola…[Read more]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, MX-76 by Dana Miller 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Sneerwise, I’ve seen better
Dearborn, without the metal
I’d go on to abort you like any other paperweight hitchhiking across my belly
and just that fast
Grace Kelly has figured out the new mat […]
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Trudy commented on the post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Dear Bess,
Thank you. Yes, Billy would have loved the absurdity
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Emily Littlewood wrote a new post, Here’s One Quick Secret Writers Can Use to Conquer Self-Doubt Forever by Lauren Sapala 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Do you constantly compare yourself to other writers?
Do you set goals for yourself as a writer and then somehow fall short of them every time?
Do you start new writing practices full of enthusiasm, but then […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post, Pink Peonies by Alexis Kelleher 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Aunt Maggie laughs with a Marlboro Red clamped between her lips. A metallic party hat sits atop her matted, white hair, fastened with a cheap elastic band under her turkey-wattle chin. Today s […]
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Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post, Departing in McKittrick Canyon by J.R. Forman 3 weeks, 5 days ago
you and I bedded down in the canyon
the nine ply of heaven
folded us in rainthe next morning the firewood
smoldered with dew
as you bathed
the stones in the springbed trembled
like flowers seen through […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, Two Tasks by Fred Wilbur 1 month ago
This summer, I have performed two activities that strangely seem similar: shredding dozens of family documents and serving as a screener for a poetry manuscript contest.
Many of our older readers […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post, From One March to Another: My NICU Baby and the Pandemic Turned One by Jamie Farnsworth Finn 1 month ago
I stared at the thick frosting of the cake, dotted with rainbow sprinkles, wondering if this would be what made him sick. I’d messed up the recipe, not realizing that “pasteurized egg whites” were diffe […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, I Love You* by Howard Algeo 1 month ago
*Certain conditions apply.
Statement is not an indicator of future performance,
nor does it constitute any promise, guarantee or warranty.
Cannot be combined with other offers.Void where […]
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 1 month, 1 week ago
Love this!
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Trudy wrote a new post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 1 month, 1 week ago
This is a true story.
After my husband Billy died in June of 2020, his ‘step daughter’ Zoe, a beautiful and vivacious woman of fifty offered her home in Santa Barbara to hold his memorial. We waited until the […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post, Husk by Ellis Elliot 1 month, 1 week ago
She was a day past presence, riding
the jagged breath below the surface
of consciousness, and I was running
to make the next plane to Arkansas.
My footsteps parted the ear-splitting
everyday […]
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, How to Weigh Loss by Charlotte Matthews 1 month, 1 week ago
Such an evocative and beautiful poem.
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