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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:00:48 -0400

Stone Circles by Moray McGowan Moray McGowan is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Poetry Contest The waxwings that stripped our cherry tree’s last crop dropped gu […]

Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:00:03 -0400

Playmaker by Richard H. Kenney, Jr. Richard Kenney, Jr. has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2026 Essay/Memoir Contest “He had a talent for remembering phone numbers an […]

Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:43 -0400

Paying Our Respects by Connie Clark Going to visit a dead body has seemed bizarre to me since my first such occasion when I was five or six years old. Like any good Southern family, we […]

Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:59 -0400

An Artist’s Progress: A Glimpse Into The Art of Lincoln Perry by Deborah McLeod Lincoln Perry launched Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University’s Department of Art in 1971. Not essentially recognizable to those of us who no […]

Emily Littlewood wrote a new post

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:34 -0400

An Interview of Sharon Hostler by Sharon Harrigan Scroll to the end of the interview for excerpt from Making Rounds. In her new memoir, Sharon Hostler writes candidly about her life, both […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:08 -0400

Nine Feet Apart by David I. Hughes David Hughes is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Poetry Contest This is the silence with a fault line. Not a void, but a […]

Paula Boyland wrote a new post

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:10:13 -0400

All Out in Beijing by Marcia Yudkin The shuffling of Zhao Yihe, my boss, down the office corridor came to a shocked halt when he saw me. With his hair wet, his feet in plastic slippers […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:00:56 -0400

I tell my wife we are all drawn to sadness by Casey Killingsworth Nothing changes after the year we spend our Sunday mornings offering tea to the homeless in the shadow of the Mission, you know, […]

Erika Raskin wrote a new post

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:00:52 -0400

Spring Gables Wolf Attack by Andrew Friedman I took the cheeseburger out of the bag and started eating it while I walked to my car. Harold was in the parking lot. They were beating his ass again. […]

Erika Raskin wrote a new post

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:59 -0400

2026 Flash Fiction Contest Winners by Erika Raskin and Mary Esselman We were privileged again to read a vast expanse of small worlds through our flash fiction contest. And once again, the different structures and […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:00:37 -0400

Prep work by Katherine Gotthardt The last thing I drank was clear. The number of times I’ve had to repeat this reproduces, every anesthesiologist preparing for vomit, I guess. M […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:43 -0400

Looking for Definition by Fred Wilbur If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. —Charles Darwin,Voyage of the Be […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:04 -0400

fitting places into a suitcase by Hibbah Haddam how do i fit a city into a suitcase and how do i fit the feeling of waking with the sunrise or not sleeping until the stars blur how do i fit […]

Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:00:26 -0400

The Vibrant Paintings of Mahmoud Elmardi Mahmoud Elmardi, a Sudanese visual artist and novelist currently based in Cairo, explores how physical and spiritual landscapes overlap, his aim to […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:00:58 -0400

Knowing and Oh My, 2 poems by Julia Falcinelli Last night the dreams poured in through the window. The plants, brought in for the first threat of freeze, let them rest and take stock on […]

Paula Boyland wrote a new post

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:00:00 -0400

Flare, Strobe, Pulse by Jeffrey Kane Christine Wilcox is the 3rd place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Essay/Memoir Contest She slips into Mass during the processional, as if she’s part of […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:16 -0400

Beating a Death Sentence by Bill Glose Imagine being told at your annual physical that you have a cancerous spot on your right lung. Then, in a follow-up that you have a year left to live. […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:36 -0400

Unseen Roots by Martha Snell Our touring barge plows south through Mekong waters soon to arrive in the Delta. It’s been years, yet the names of these places are still f […]

Erika Raskin wrote a new post

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:27 -0400

He Died In Her Sleep Peter Wallace Another Medicare commercial came on TV. It was getting to be time for bed. Brad knew that if he didn’t turn off the television and get […]

Trudy commented on the post, The Odd and Tender Clarity of 4 AM Kathleen McKitty Harris

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:51:01 -0400

A true gem. Thank you Kathleen. So much wisdom, personal generational history, and epiphanies packed into your sleepless night. Fantastic. Trudy

Erika Raskin wrote a new post

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:54 -0400

The Odd and Tender Clarity of 4 AM Kathleen McKitty Harris Irish-American New Yorkers—especially those of the Catholic persuasion—have a knack for fatalist worst-case scenarios. Maybe it’s the indige […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:09 -0400

The Language of My Body by Chibuike Ukah I don’t blame my body for its language, for keeping its sacredness secure with words, its spleen tagging towards holiness and eternity, since I d […]

Trudy wrote a new post

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:45 -0400

Booking It by E. H. Jacobs I was strolling with my wife in Brookline, Massachusetts, on a charming street with clothing and gift stores, Japanese restaurants, delis, and a […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:00:14 -0400

This year is forecast four winters and I can't save the burning world by Andreea Ceplinschi I, who have never known love like this for my kinfolk in a burning world I’m tired of loneliness rewiring this brain, tired of wasting time w […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:00:11 -0400

Yoga Today by Fred Wilbur Among the activities of our local Parks and Recreation Department are youth sports (including cheerleading), a genealogy class, bingo, adult […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:00:33 -0400

The Bird Lives Here to Wait by Yucheng Tao …………. ………To commemorate the victims of the Khmer Rouge we faced a large number of classroo […]

Paula Boyland wrote a new post

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:00:13 -0400

Lost Boots by Wendy Fontaine Wendy Fontaine is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Essay/Memoir Contest I need to find my winter boots My daughter is home from c […]

Trudy wrote a new post

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:48 -0400

The Alley by Alex Joyner Somewhere locked in geostationary orbit over Virginia, a satellite maintains its dumb stare. Prompt it with a series of numbers and you can provoke it […]

Erika Raskin wrote a new post

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:58 -0400

Foie Gras by Nathan Cover “What’s wrong with pear trees?” I ask, wondering if my dad is getting senile. “Well, they’re an invasive species. They’re not allowed to sell the […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0400

Not Unlike Damon and Pythias by Zachary Lundgren A friend once drove out of town so fast he didn’t know if he was headed north or south. He just wanted to make the coast and finally learn how t […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:00:02 -0400

2026 Poetry Contest Announcement by Fred Wilbur As I read this year’s contest entries, I accumulated a deep appreciation for the humans who invested the thought and energy to create them and who t […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:46 -0400

Bloodless by Martin Vest I don’t want to be eaten by a grizzly, my dad would say every time we were camping. But I wouldn’t want to be here if it weren’t possi […]

Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:00:45 -0400

Pots for Art's Sake: A Look at Judd Jarvis's Work by Russell Hart Ceramic artist Judd Jarvis finds a thoughtful middle ground between form and function. It’s tempting to suggest that Virginia’s famous red clay […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:34 -0400

The Kestrel Blues by Marjorie Gowdy He perches boldlyon the old phone wiredown Canning Factory Road. He sings killy killy killya violent tune for a falconpainted in col […]

Paula Boyland wrote a new post

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:03 -0400

Splitting Wood by David Sapp It wasn’t when I got the hang of cursing, exquisitely and generously, tutored by the bigger kids at the back of the school bus. It wasn’t when I puf […]

Paula Boyland wrote a new post

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:35 -0400

On A Scale Of . . . by Wendy Kennar Wendy Kennar is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2026 Essay/Memoir Contest Within my first few years of teaching, the district’s grading sys […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:06 -0400

Human Entanglement and Woman, Falling, 2 poems by Karl Meade Human Entanglement After they split the atom, broke our water into hydrogen, and hydrogen, and the oxygen you couldn’t breathe, we and the h […]

Paula Boyland wrote a new post

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:00:57 -0400

When My Secrets Were No Longer Mine by Jean Romano One day after school, I stepped into my room and immediately felt that something was wrong. My eyes darted to the bed, and my heart stopped. The […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:00:26 -0400

The hothouse by D S Maolalai wondering at marriage; at what it’s really like and what it does to you – like: I know that I do love her but will it dislocate my bone […]

Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:00:14 -0400

Eileen French's Figurative Paintings Celebrate Kinship Joy. Love. Silliness. These words come to Eileen French’s mind when asked to describe her paintings. A figurative artist at the Mc […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:00:39 -0400

Mind the Gap by Sharon Perkins Ackerman Sukey Gap Graveyard The road here is pocked with holes, graves strung mostly in mistflower or phlox, apt to spread airy trails. Not a place for […]

Fred Wilbur wrote a new post

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:58 -0400

A Block Off Henderson by Chris Dahl “The deer stood like a blessing, then vanished.” —Jane Hirschfield, “Standing Deer” And this is how it is when I see the two-point, […]

Erika Raskin wrote a new post

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400

Mattering To Fiona by Ginger Moran I was listening to NPR on my way home from the dentist today and it turned out to be one of those shows I carried into my house when I got […]

Erika Raskin wrote a new post

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:00:00 -0400

Two Homes by Douglas Cole He took his bike from under the porch and rode down the driveway and out onto the sidewalk. He rode around the corner and east on 47th Street past the […]

Trudy wrote a new post

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:32 -0400

For the Sake of a Quarter by Gayla Mills If you’ve shopped at Aldi, the German-based grocery that’s expanding around the U.S., then you know their shopping cart system. You insert a qua […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:24 -0400

The Lone Ranger Alone by J.R. Solonche My favorite television cowboy was the Lone Ranger because he didn’t sing, he didn’t kill Indians for the fun of it, and he wasn’t even a cowbo […]

Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:07 -0400

Blindsided by Wally Swist There are times when Dr. Amanda Mullen’s visage takes on that of a lion tamer about to open the locked gate to the ring where the lions are gathered f […]

Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:00:19 -0400

Nigerian Photographer Focuses on Self Portraits Nigerian artist Imran Abiola Sulola started by taking pictures of the sun and the moon. Then in 2021, what began as a hobby changed after seeing […]

Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:00:03 -0400

Left Behind by Claire Rubin Scott I thought it was all behind me remission said my doctor now only periodic PET scans to be sure only blood tests to double check […]

Paula Boyland wrote a new post

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:23 -0400

Cadence by David Stern You don’t think about it unless you’re doing it. Coughing. The cough reflex is a critical means by which your body protects your airway from blo […]