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Stories

Interviews - Audio/Video
Geoffrey Wolff
Interviews - Audio/Video
Audio clips of Pultizer Prize winner Jennifer Egan on her work.
Poem of the Week
I have already begun the life-long work of hating my father.
Poem of the Week
The coyotes are making a kill. Their voices rise through the darkness.
Classics
I put out my lips, and we kissed through the newly painted fence.
Poem of the Week
I’m trying to believe I can sense the river when I can’t. Hard to call beauty an affliction, but I think it is what makes my blindness hurt.
Poetry
Getting over being drunk makes you wonder why the hell you did that.
Readers' Narratives
After seven years, Ioan was released from prison, but it was too late.
Poetry
You see, I plan on remaining here as the most foolish god in the world.
Fiction
Being with Kate was like a circuit connecting, lighting everything up.
Poem of the Week
All that I’ve had, I’ve left propped up in a glass vase: cut stems at rest.
Readers' Narratives
We were all on edge. Everyone who walked in was a potential terrorist.
Photography & Art
Eszter Marosszeky and David Matheson
Story of the Week
Pigeons are born knowing where they belong, with whom they belong.
Readers' Narratives
Six-Word Stories
Combat: a series of five new six-word stories from Stanton S. Coerr.
Poem of the Week
No salt tears, and a continent between her ashes and Father’s.
Fiction
Bo could live with his contradictions. They were what made him whole.
Poetry
He drowned under a different name, a fake name chiseled in German.
Story of the Week
It whispered a promise of great wealth, and I was listening.
Story of the Week
I keep my mother separate from my father. They seem fine with this.
Story of the Week
Sudden camera blurs, blackouts, audio hiccups, silences.
Poem of the Week
If all along we all had known the leaves we leafed would leave us
Poetry
Ideology, all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught.
Poetry
Still it’s true I began as they did the ones she kept: newt-like moonish
Poem of the Week
I pass my hands over my eyes, mired by the miti-
gation of routine.
Story of the Week
Of course the despicable wretch would beg her to forgive him again.