Goodbye to Love Atop Old Priest Grade by Mary Pacifico Curtis I have a fondness for our imperfect union that started with a swindle – too much money for land and a set of plans that had hung over the place l […]

The Secrets We Kept in Our Condo Association by I. S. Berry It’s hard to know when it started—the hollow feeling when I entered my building. The unease as I unlocked the front door, like I was entering a str […]

God Bless the 800-Calorie Sandwich by Angela Townsend So, here’s the thing about the Meemaw cookbooks. I have no desire to make any of this stuff. But it gives me metaphysical peace to know that s […]

The Emily Dickinson Revery Construction Guide by Robert Harlow Before she invented the ladder to the sky, she first invented the sky to have somewhere to go. Then she pulled the ladder up after […]

Flipping the Switch in Georgia by Gary D. Grossman Did the G-d of the South finally begin perspiring and give that little knob a flick, mid-September or if lucky, August 22nd? Now the wind is an […]

Mimm Patterson Wins Streetlight's 2024 Art Contest Mimm Patterson is the Winner of Streetlight’s 2024 Art Contest Among the submissions that we received for the Streetlight Art Contest, Mimm […]

Candy Apple Smile by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos   Kat’s portrait tilted on Wendy’s dresser festooned with effulgent skyscrapers: birds of paradise and stargazers. A spent cork from a New Year […]

Portrait of My Father the Photographer as a Dying Man by Bobby Parrott Does her dimpled-cheek delirium still thrill          you? Or her death escalate as you try to focus, cataracts pixilating her image, static o […]

Where'd The Idea For That Come From? by Erika Raskin Writers write. Worriers worry. I am quite adept at doing both. You know, simultaneously. I penned my first book, Close, while partaking in a […]

Last Words: Mysteries of Life by Richard Weaver for Nana Pansy “Give these to Weaver,” you said. The books that saw you through sleeplessness. “I’m done with reading.” You already k […]

Of Goats and Men by Sharon Ackerman I step outside right at sunrise when night creatures are still on the move. It’s a threshold hour, a groundhog slogs under the fence or a fawn s […]

Ian, Who Lives on the Mountain Overlooking the City Where He Works by John Brantingham On a foggy dawn like this, at the edge of the cliff, at the edge of winter when the wind is blowing through the forest, all the ice chips […]

Moosehead by John Matthews I had just helped a young neighbor, much younger than me, dig an annoying stump out of his yard. We were tired and muddy, but he invited me into […]

Dolphin, with Number by Ty Phelps Ty Phelps has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest Dolphin, with Number The city stretches out beyondthe marshland, […]

Under the River Bridge by Paul C. Rosenblatt The summer before I turned fifteen I often biked with my two best friends to Chicago’s River Park, thirty acres of grass, trees, paths, playgrounds, a […]

Scientists Say it's Time to Prepare for Human Extinction by David B. Prather —article title by Gwyn Wright, via swns.com ……………..             …..Let me make light of the situation, travel to the nearest inter […]

To Solve America by Fred Wilbur                                                          I got to have it (just a little bit)                                                  […]

The Driver by John Beck John Beck has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest The Driver In 1925, Pius XI made you, St. Frances, the patron of […]

Flowers by William Cass   As I marked another donation box I’d filled with my son’s trach supplies, the doorbell rang. Two men in identical ball caps and polo shir […]

We Left My Father and Sister at Home by Joan Mazza Joan Mazza has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2023 Poetry Contest We Left My Father and Sister at Home Because my mother didn’t d […]