3rd place winner of the Streetlight 2015 Poetry Contest.

Flowers in a Crystal Vase – Manet, 1882
 
At the members only showing
of flower paintings, we old folks
dress for comfort. Women in flats
and bo […]

Geoffrey Stein, intrigued with “the seen and unseen,” employs paint and collage to reveal portraits of power and vulnerability.

“I paint to find out what I think about the world; to discover t […]

Annette Boushey Holland is the 1st place winner winner of Streetlight’s 2016 essay/memoir contest.

My last year of elementary school, at the end of the 50s, was also the end of my family’s life in Washington D […]

Jennifer Cox is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2016 essay/memoir contest.
Until I was six I was loud and my eyes lit up and family was everyone everywhere. Then my cousin Jeffrey died, and it took a year f […]

When the sun catches it right, Lena knows her hair resembles strawberry cotton candy. It trembles on the slightest of breezes, struggles to lift, never dissuaded by the obstinacy of follicles for long. It’s p […]

By Laura Marello
 

Imagine that, 20 years ago, my father and I were visiting my sister in her apartment. It was a warm, sunny day. My sister was making us ice tea. I was sitting in the living room with my […]