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  • Podcast: A father coping with a loss to the family becomes a powerful memory for his son.

    A memoir performed by Jennifer Sims.

    Read the story online: My Father’s Tears by Jean Auguste Gravel

  • You have stalked about fifty agents and know what they like with their toast and where their poodles get their haircuts. The ten minutes you got to spend with some of them at writers’ conferences bought you n […]

  • When I was younger I prayed that if I had to get sick, I’d get a movie star illness—one with a color, ribbon, and celebrity spokespersons. It’s not that I wanted to be ill, but in my family broke-down-body lore […]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 1 month ago

     

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    Margaret McCann, Carmen Miranda Self Portrait, Oil on linen, 40 x 30 inches

    Les Yeux du Monde Gallery will show Megan Marlatt & Margaret McCann: Big Heads and Small Giants February 24 – March 26. The opening Friday, February 24, from 5 – 7 p.m. will feature a Mini Mardi Gras Parade with the Big Head Brigade at 5:30 p.m.

    The Gall…[Read more]

  • Absolutely terrific writing & a beautiful moving story.

  • I first read Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” when I was in college. Five American Poets was the course, taught by a ruddy-faced Midwestern professor who began class by reading aloud a poem, often reciting it from m […]

  • As a child, one of the most thrilling things to me was the story my father told about how he, at the age of ten, first encountered Indians on a dusty road near the Flandreau Santee Indian Reservation in South […]

  • 2nd place winner of the Streetlight 2017 Poetry Contest

    My Grandmother Kills a Chicken
     
    The hen house her grocery,
    she strode the aisles of cluck,
    straw, and feathers for eggs
    reaching under each bird […]

  • 1st place winner of the Streetlight 2017 Poetry Contest

    Thoor Ballylee
    Home of W.B. Yeats
    Massive stone, empty air, the river’s
    cool breath, a space the poet enters.
    Image stacked upon image reveals
    his w […]

  • 3rd place winner of the Streetlight 2017 Poetry Contest

    Witness
     
    It seemed an unlikely spot for a prophet, the annual library book sale
    in a dim warehouse on a summer day, but there she was,
    rocking side […]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

     

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    Susan Crave Rosen, Orb

     

                      Bindings: Reni Gower with Brielle duFlon and Susan Crave Rosen to February 25

    Chroma Gallery at its new location, York Place 112 West Main St. Suite 10 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902

    Bindings introduces the work of three varied artists — the dynamic canvas strip hangings of Richmond…[Read more]

  • In a word: Yes.

    In their defense they did save me from a slow, painful wasting away. I was under 100 pounds when I got them—and it’s not the lungs’ fault, exactly. It’s the drugs I take to keep my body from re […]

  • We were the ones who fell between the cracks in the social order. We loathed the popular kids—the jocks, cheerleaders, and rich kids. We pitied the stoners and the nerds. To all of them, we were invisible, s […]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

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    Birch grove

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres is the featured artist for February at Leftover Luxuries, 350 Pantops Center, Charlottesville.

    Ayres recently won a Juror’s Choice Award for his photograph, The Parlous Egg, at The Larkin Arts Annual Regional Juried Show, in Harrisonburg, VA.

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    The parlous egg

    Ayres also will sh…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

    birch-grove

    Birch grove

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres is the featured artist for February at Leftover Luxuries, 350 Pantops Center, Charlottesville.

    Ayres recently won a Juror’s Choice Award for his photograph, The Parlous Egg, at The Larkin Arts Annual Regional Juried Show, in Harrisonburg, VA.

    the_parlous_egg_1080_jpeg

    The parlous egg

    Ayres also will sh…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

    birch-grove

    Birch grove

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres will the featured artist for February at Leftover Luxuries, 350 Pantops Center, Charlottesville. An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, February 2.

    the_parlous_egg_1080_jpeg

    The parlous egg

     Ayres also will show his photographs, Still Life with Ice Cream Scoop and The Parlous Egg, in the…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

     

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres will the featured artist for February at Leftover Luxuries, 350 Pantops Center, Charlottesville. An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, February 2.

    the_parlous_egg_1080_jpeg

    The parlous egg

     Ayres also will show his photographs, Still Life with Ice Cream Scoop and The Parlous Egg, in the Larkin Arts Regi…[Read more]

  • Elizabeth Howard started the topic in the forum 9 years, 2 months ago

     

    the_parlous_egg_1080_jpeg

    The parlous egg

    STREETLIGHT contributor Fax Ayres will show his photographs, Still Life with Ice Cream Scoop and The Parlous Egg, in the Larkin Arts Regional Juried Art group show to run February 3 -25th.

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    Ice cream scoop and eggs

    The opening reception is 5-8 p.m., Friday, February 3 at Larkin Arts, 61 Court Square in…[Read more]

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