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Stories

Interviews - Audio/Video
On Poetry
by Donald Hall
Poets need to be
in constant touch with the extremes of feeling.
First-Person Winners
On Principle
by Gina Ochsner
Mother had always told me that everybody loves a self-absorbed ass.
iPoems
On Privacy
by C. D. Wright
He pretended he was in his boat, his cellmate’s flushing, Arctic Ocean.
Poetry
On Seeing Damien Hirst’s “Kingdom of the Father”
by Laura Wetherington
Small valleys and veins give way to a lifted ridge like a rib or an arm bone.
Poetry
On the Aggrieved and Other Poems
by Michael Wasson
A man drunk on the damage he made to a boy’s young mouth.
Poem of the Week
On the Horizon
by Michael Wasson
& I said let there be dark pouring from your mouth at daybreak
Story of the Week
On the Art of Fiction
by Willa Cather
That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process.
Story of the Week
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
by Mark Twain
An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.
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Poem of the Week
On the Difficulty of Discerning Shapes in the Distance
by Luisa A. Igloria
Warm breath in my ear mouthing a name; rivulet folded back in water.
Poem of the Week
On the Fourteenth Day without a Father
by L. A. Johnson
In its shadow, our mislaid secrets cascade down around us.
Poetry
On the Isle of Fast-Flowing Waters
by JinJin Xu
My dear, even my ear is trying to eat itself in its attempt to forget you.
Story of the Week
On the Line
by Debra Nystrom
“How is it fair that you know who I am but I have to guess about you?”
Poem of the Week
On the Meaning of Love
by Jay Deshpande
I needed more. I worked her lips back and wedged my hand in.
Story of the Week
On the Way to the Dacha
by Josip Novakovich
Enjoy the prison. It’s very impressive, worth spending some time!
Poetry
On This Day in Poetry History
by Amy Newman
She was gone then, inaudible, steeple-reticent, demure as sky.
Nonfiction
On to Baghdad
by Ned Parker
He could see I was American, but I thought he was unlikely to harm me.
Narrative Outloud
On Writing, Teaching, and Her New Novel
by Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips
Poem of the Week
Once Again, in August
by Dan Gerber
I continue composing my love letter, hoping to love her more.
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iPoems
One
by Laurie Saurborn Young
Laurie Saurborn Young
Story of the Week
One at a Time
by Polly Dugan
Her top lip lingered behind, pressed between his. They were soaked.
iStories
One Day
by Reynold Junker
He was reading Our Town. She studied the departure board.
Poetry
One More Day and Other Poems
by Elizabeth Metzger
There is a lot about others I don’t remember, outliving an interest.
Interviews
One of the Great Independents
by Jack Shoemaker
When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.
Nonfiction
One Pound Sterling
by Bill Barich
The hut was cluttered with the skulls and bones of small animals.
Poem of the Week
One Says We
by Johann Sarna
Sometimes one does wade into it or is ambushed as by a incensed fog.
One Sentence
by

One Sentence

Watching Leavitt trying to negotiate his past and his plans for the future, we soon see how fragile past and present are.
iStories
One Such as This
by Michael Croley
Later in the pale of dawn your hair brushed across my forearm.
iPoems
One Whose Soul the Titan Has Fashioned
by L. S. Klatt
You are with outsized footnotes that have tracked across the Internet.
First & Second Looks
One Writer’s Beginnings
by Eudora Welty
Poem of the Week
One Year Later: What to Fear More
by Amy Uyematsu
It began last spring / Flowers blooming like crazy / No balm to our fear