It’s graduation season. My friends here at art school are graduating around me, and while I still have a couple classes left to take, the future is approaching fast, and it’s intimidating. When my impending transition into “the real Read More »
In college I regarded Jane Austen as less than literary. From the indirect knowledge I had gathered, she wrote about dancing and marriage. Boring to a girl who was more interested in reading Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky or pretending to understand Faulkner. Read More »
I‘ve never put out to sea, but I have a notion or two as what it might be like…out on a watertight (most of the time) vessel. The anticipation of the journey to start, stars and determination in the eyes of the captain and crew. Nights and days blur together. Infighting, mutiny, tense relations in close quarters. Read More »
This year, I had planned on spending Easter in the hospital – my second child, a boy, was due a couple days before that. On January 24, a Thursday nine weeks before Easter, I woke up at 4 a.m. to feel a low tick-tick-tick inside the bowl of my pelvis bone, the same ticking I felt before my water broke Read More »
Poetry is about creation, about making something real from nothing, or very little—something that sings and dances from a grave deep within—a stone rolling away. It’s about speaking a world into existence. It is—as is said of the life of Christ— Read More »
The title Everything Barren Will Be Blessed is an effective entry into poet Don Thompson’s world: the dichotomous landscape of California’s San Joaquin Valley. Once a carpet of wildflowers that Read More »
ISSUE 27: GLIMPSES
FEATURING Brian Baumgart, Rachel Faldet, David Brendan Hopes, Lydia Larson + 2013 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize judged by Mark Richard, winner David Brendan Hopes
