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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Flash Fiction Series: Sarah Sarai
Vows by Sarah Sarai It is no secret that there is a lot of jabber in the world coming from everywhere including the streets and the houses with their people and telephones and radios and TVs, all of them blasting … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LAUREN IRELAND
SORRY IT’S SO SMALL by Lauren Ireland
FRIDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: PAUL LEGAULT
OLD PEOPLE WHO DON’T EXIST by Paul Legault Nevertheless she wouldn’t let down her hair. HAIR: I am an extension of the dead. EMPRESS: Light it up, light it down. PAPA: Things don’t always matter. THE SUN: No, things don’t.
Tragedy in Haymarket Square
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, The First Labor Movement, and The Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America by James Green. New York: Pantheon, 2006. On the evening of May 4, 1886, laborers gathered to attend a rally … Continue reading
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The Coming Crisis of Op-Ed Food: The Cheapness of Eating Expensively
By Liam Hysjulien In a study last year by Professors Dan Ariely and Micahel L. Norton aptly titled “Building A Better America—One Wealth Quintile At A Time,” we learned that Americans have little concept of the median income in this … Continue reading
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Location, Location, Location
My cousin, Mark Unger, finds himself unexpectedly in prison, and has turned to writing as a sanity outlet. This essay was one of this year’s winners in a creative writing competition sponsored annually by the Prison Creative Arts Program based … Continue reading
Cynthia Popper
things I could never know by Cynthia Popper I’m on the bus driving to the airport from Delicias and I can only think about you. For some reason the little girl sitting alone by the driver reminds me of when … Continue reading
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Rumynations: Syria in Contention
By Alejandro Moreiras Ashams, the area called Suriya by the Byzantines, was conquered by the Arabs in the mid-seventh century, much of the fighting being over by 650. It was an ancient land, a land of plenty. The Arabs had … Continue reading
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: NORMA LILIANA VALDEZ
YOUR LIFE OR HERS by Norma Liliana Valdez (“Your Life Or Hers” was originally published in The Acentos Review and is reprinted here today with permission from the poet.)
FRIDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: TODD BOSS
THE ENDING IS IN THE BEGINNING by Todd Boss of this first movement of Suite No. 3 in C major for solo cello by Bach. It’s lovely and sad, how it knows itself, knows its own closing as it opens. … Continue reading
