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Stories

Poem of the Week
What Gary Snyder Said to Me, That Day, in the Doorway of the Milking Barn
by Daniel Smith
You need to teach these cows to meditate. To lose their bodies.
Poetry
What It Requires
by Sharon Olds
I am part dumb, and blind, and deaf, and untasting and unfeeling.
Interviews
What Makes a Good Story Great
by Garry Marshall
Lori & Garry Marshall
Poetry
What My Father Taught Me about the Snow
by Chelsea Woodard
In this plummeting weather there is nothing to do but lean in.
Poem of the Week
What They Found
by Sarah Lindsay
Her city, but no cats. Specks of color, no cloth.
Poem of the Week
What This Elegy Wants
by Sara Elkamel
It wants to name the dead—without a name you wander lost in the sky.
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Poem of the Week
What We Have
by Ruth Stone
It was spring: the field, a botanist’s mirage of wild flowers.
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Poem of the Week
What We Learned
by Ashley Skabar
It was the truth of it all—hunger’s chill, the scream beneath the surface.
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Story of the Week
What We Left Behind
by Mũthoni Kiarie
The Others came in the light of day and splayed Father open.
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Poem of the Week
What We Once Needed to Know
by Josh Rathkamp
We are good at thinking we can stay. We are good at finding hurt.
Nonfiction
What Would You Have Me Do?
by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
We’d never had a cross word, but I’d never corrected him.
Fiction
What You Get
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
There was nothing sadder than the look of defeat in a man’s eyes.
First & Second Looks
What You Have Left
by Will Allison
Poem of the Week
What You Mistook as Ultimatum
by Tyler Allen Penny
Wrung taut & tender at the soft play of fingertips, we breathe desires. Laughter takes refuge in bodies no longer coaxed to move. Nature becomes a thought.
Poetry
What?
by Daniel Halpern
These sounds for you, verbs of attraction. Matters of tense.
Poem of the Week
Whatever Is the Matter
by Kenzie Allen
There is something on my mind rushing up as river in a locked car.
Poetry
Whatever You Can
by Taije Silverman
Cat food smells even unopened like vomit and I don’t trust cats.
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Fiction
Whatever’s Left of Normal
by Don Evans
Design a way to kill those rats, and do it now, Fiori, do it now.
Poetry
What’s Happening
by Lauren K. Watel
Where will we go and how will we steer when the cars are gone?
Nonfiction
When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse
by Lynn Freed
What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
Narrative Outloud
When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse
by Lynn Freed
What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
Narrative High School Writing Contest
When Everything Changed
by Makee Anderson
Poem of the Week
When Giving Is All We Have
by Alberto Álvaro Ríos
You gave me blue and I gave you yellow. Together we are green.
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Poetry
When He Left: Index of First Lines
by Anne Marie Rooney
What I became was not pretty. Like a needle on water-warped paper.
Story of the Week
When I Come to Be Old
by Jonathan Swift
When I come to be old, I resolve not to tell the same story over and over.
Story of the Week
When I Knew Stephen Crane
by Willa Cather
If he could not evade a serious question by a joke, he bolted.
Poetry
When I Lose and Other Poems
by Richard Kenney
Re: murdering democracy, oiling the shore, shearing the rain forest.
Poem of the Week
When I Think of Early Romance I Think of Fishing
by Jessica Lee
I wouldn’t know what to do with the body, gills pumping like an accordion.
Poem of the Week
When My Alabama
by William Fargason
there is no place on this earth I can run from my own prejudice
Poem of the Week
When My Brother Tells Me I'm Obsessed with Sadness
by William Fargason
it’s hard not to be obsessed with your own shadow I don’t tell him