I never imagined that the editor would as much as recognize that my writing was verse, even for the waste-paper basket. I was getting on.
POEM OF THE WEEK
Time Change
By Richard Kenney
Here: POTUS holds codes. They tingle in his pocket under Dakotas. Here: geeky cyber-warriors crunch cheese Cheetos over bruised keyboards.
CALLING ALL POETS
Poetry is “the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most,” wrote William Congreve. We agree and are seeking poets and poems to celebrate with prizes and publication.
Please see the Guidelines.
OPEN TO ALL WRITERS
We’re looking for short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, and excerpts from long fiction and nonfiction.
Deadline: June 15.
The $4,000 Prize is awarded annually for the best work published by a new or emerging poet, writer, or artist in Narrative. See the prior winners and guidelines.
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
Fifteen Dogs
By Rick Bass
You really should go back and pick up those little pups. / Ah, they’re feral, they wouldn’t make good pets, they’re irredeemable.
NONFICTION
Fifteen Ways to Avoid Gardening
By Ann Beattie
Call tick control. When they don’t show up, see if mosquito control can help in their own quiet, noncarcinogenic way.
NONFICTION
Losing My Mother
By Kate Small
We run, balancing bags, pulling suitcases, through the airport hallways, and outside toward the cold December air.
FICTION
POETRY
NARRATIVE OUTLOUD
FICTION
Boston Common at Twilight
By Susan Minot
In that mysterious place, he would supposedly find someone to sell him pot.
POETRY
Soledad and Other Poems
By Deborah Paredez
Mary Ann is a fourteen-year-old runaway. Later she’ll say, I hitchhiked my way into history.
NARRATIVE OUTLOUD
Ca Dao
By John Balaban
In 1971–1972, I returned to Vietnam with a tape recorder to collect the oral poetry know as ca dao.
NARRATIVE BY HAND
iSTORIES
NARRATIVE BY HAND
Notes and Annotations
By William Butler Yeats
Handwritten drafts of “Byzantium,” “Easter 1916,” “Under Ben Bulben,” and other poems.
iSTORIES
Go-Go
By Robert Kinerk
There was this go-go place in Oakland in 1968 where Kelly took us when we first got off the ship.
Phone Cards
By Mary Morrissy
I needs them to call my Angelo. How else he remember me? Please, I says, but it is no good.
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2019-05
By Various Artists
New laughs from Lydia Conklin, Kaamran Hafeez, David Rowles, P. C. Vey, and Kim Warp.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2019-04
By Various Artists
Great new toons by Joe Dator, Bob Eckstein, Seth Fleishman, John Klossner, and Mary Lawton.
