My Funny Little Valentine by Lucinda Guard HEART OF GOLD The calendar waves its pages, and announces it’s time for our annual tradition of tapping trees and sugaring. Oh wait: not you! No more […]

The Composer by Anne Whitehouse …………………………for John Kander Music plays in my head, and I listen. Sounds and rhythms, echoes and vibrations. This is how I […]

Wild Fires by Trudy Hale Tuesday, Januay 7th. My son Charlie called. He was breathless. He had barely escaped the Palisades. The sky had been clear, he said when he took […]

Equal Opportunity by Claire Scott I just bought an eight-pack of bony Jesuses, an Amazon special, to be sure Jesus remembers this little lamb if I run a red light or ease through a […]

Fragments From Returning to the Suburban Neighborhood of My Youth by Sharon Gelman Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash. I. a. This morning, I saw a creature standing in the road. The size of a small dog with rust-colored fur. […]

Still Life with Bulldozer and Backhoe by Cindy Buchanan   In the empty lot across the street they graze on ground scrape and grind — diesel sculptors of land and sound that rumble words shatter li […]

The Audience Beneath by Holly Day The worms are writing a song in my garden, rustling their slick bodies through the leaves in a rising crescendo, inspired by the rain. If one were […]

The Rauschenberg Retrospective by Ingrid Jandrewski Studio by Katy Nicosia. CC license. When we first enter the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective at the Tate Modern, my parents’ eyes brighten as if t […]

The Last Time by Cheryl Somers Aubin We never know when it will be the last time, do we? If I had known, I would have paid closer attention to the story mom shared about her […]

How Pain Matters by Mark Simpson Not thinking about it doesn’t make it go away. Recollection makes sense of it, invents details from the misremembered: as with open carry and its f […]

Krenshaw and the Tale of Memphis by Karys Rhea The fear of losing you torments me.  Krenshaw’s roommate, Annie Alessandra, was dating Tommy Stalwart. Krenshaw had introduced them a few months ba […]

Don’t Let Anyone Break Your Creative Heart by Deborah M. Prum My vocation is writing, but my avocation is painting, mostly portraits. I belong to a Facebook group dedicated to showing the work of artists who are […]

Trick of the Eye: Fresh Roasted by Richard Elliott Martin If you want a free lunch, All you have to do is smash, bleed, and work for it. Would you like some peanuts for lunch? Free sample, the sign on the […]

Lizzie Brown's Vibrant Portraits Richmond, Va. artist Lizzie Brown paints vivid and dramatic portraits to show the beauty, resilience, and strength of African Americans. Brown […]

New Year by Sharon Perkins Ackerman Autumn is officially over, leaves finally cleared, trees naked, winter sky a show of planets that begins early with Venus glazing the western sky. […]

Stealing Japanese Poetry by Robert Harlow Stealing Japanese poetry requires great skill, almost Ninja-like stealth, especially at night when there are so many poets out viewing the […]

The New House by Dawn Abeita It rained the day before so burying the cat wasn’t as hard as she thought it would be. She found a shovel in the shed, and wrapped her pet in an old t […]

Mehr Licht by Sharon Perkins Ackerman If I do a search for poems with the word light in the title, I get 12,600 hits. For dark, I get 6,000. This doesn’t scratch the surface of how many […]

Cockroaches in Coffee Pots by Rebecca Watkins Rebecca Watkins has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest    “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from a troubled dre […]

Teaching by J.R. Solonche Teaching, too, is labor. Everyday to be up to the task, everyday the master of a hundred worlds, of casual words, and of causal words, to confront […]