It's Not a Madeleine But by Rachel Lutwick Deaner I have always been sensitive to smells and tastes, but this was too much. On a four day getaway with my husband in NYC, the city of my girlhood, I […]

Satellite Dream Dish and Blackberry Picking, 2 poems by Charles Mines Satellite Dream Dish Another dream where I’m in trouble for being naked.And the NSA is scoffing at my latest memoir, Songs for Getting Drunk i […]

Minimalist Photographs by Michael C. Roberts     Michael Roberts describes his delicately conceived photographs as “minimalist.” “Starting last fall,” Roberts remembers, “I wanted […]

Now She Resembles James Dean by Eric Forsbergh   Do you notice anything? Her comment, laid down like a mark. Often I’m the kid caught napping in a class. But not today. She came home wi […]

Ars Poetica by Trudy Hale The forsythia outside my window has given up the brilliant citrus yellow and is fading back to the sticky green leaves. I am trying to hold a dull […]

running like water by Maggie Rue Hess for Caitlin Daughtered with the dogwood’s dirge, we expect love to have seasons, ceaseless in its business of change, inconsistency its o […]

The Art of the Dealer by Eric Lande After lunch, Donald’s art dealer, Regina Slabokoff, entered his office in a state of agitated grace. Donald’s office had a style—a Mojo s […]

Ars Poetica, Forbidden Fruit by Gary Grossman One mile into my daily jog, New Yorker poetry podcast in my ear, hoping for insights and hardware to Sherpa me up poetic Himalayas, and Mary Karr […]

Stolen Summers by Lauren Dunn I’m sweeping up a pile of sand from the hardwood floor. It’s everywhere. Under each throw mat and area rug. In the corners of the room and hiding ben […]

We Have Winning Essays by Susan Shafarzek The annual contest is a big event here at Streetlight’s essay/memoir section. We never know what our invitation is going to bring, but it’s always i […]

The Radiant Reach of Heat by Ken Holland As if to be human is to seek the warmth of another body, ……………………………………………..skin and the course of blood […]

Our Age of Irony by Fred Wilbur What is the color of irony? This may be a silly notion, but we have given color designations to various kinds of writing. Yellow Journalism (today’s C […]

Emily as She Ate the Flower by Darren Demaree If you can fit the beauty in your mouth what makes you brave, to spit it out or to let the giver of gifts see you make it yours forever? […]

Asa Fowler by Miles Fowler I am leery of ancestor worship, but the more I research the history of my great-great grandfather, Asa Fowler, the more I find admirable about […]

My Husband Texting by Maureen Clark he texts me a photograph of the bear scat he found under the chokecherry bush which is bent to the ground stripped on one side of all its red […]

Cicadian Rhythm by Quincy Gray McMichael Quincy Gray McMichael has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Essay/Memoir Contest    As I stretch my shoulders, arms aloft, t […]

Becoming by Bill Glose When the ceramic tile shattered, I was ashamed I hadn’t cared better for this piece of art created by a friend, one part of a quadriptych. All I […]

Watercolors and Drawings by James Ellis   Watercolors came naturally to artist James Ellis. “The summer I finished elementary school I discovered my mom was taking a watercolor pa […]

Comfort in the Unknown by Emily Littlewood Like a lot of people, I’ve dealt with health issues my whole life. I have cystic fibrosis, which comes with a cornucopia of symptoms, like d […]

Hard Water by S. E. Wilson   The appointment was made for five-thirty so my wife Polly and I could both be there.  She worked in an office in town and I was working from h […]