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Chelsea in the Earth
Hey, Look! Your Room is on Fire
Nonfiction.
A Mother’s Love for a Child
Exposure
Lobster Red
The Color of My Skin
Poetry.
Animals
Awe Struck
Charades
Dust to Dust
Ghost
How do I?
Men are Good
Nineteen Fifty Nine
Our Love
Reflection
The Sandman
The Struggle is Real
Gallery.
Bios.
About.
Archives.
Fall 2010.
Bios.
Welcome.
Fiction.
A Sad Smile
I am a Smart Police Officer
June 19th, 1952
Memoirs of a Bomb
Nervous?
Page 114
Roll Forth Lest You Be Forgotten…
The Irony of Fate
The Ornate Box
When Pandora Fell in Love with Narcissus
Poetry.
Agenda of the Elite
angle
apprentice
Cracking Open
fall
History Repeats Itself
Just a Friend
She is sloppy like deep kisses
Tears for Two
the far country
The Tenant
The voyage home
upstream
White Noise
Creative Nonfiction.
A Modest Proposal
City of Minds
Papa’s Clock
The Indiscriminate Nature of HIV
Acknowledgments.
Gallery.
Fall 2011.
Acknowledgments.
Bios.
Creative Nonfiction.
Babcia Project: I’ve Been Looking For You All My Life
Crossing the Border
Dear apathetic viewer,
Open letter to studying
The Cry of A Specimen
Poetry.
A Tribute to Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Achebe to Zwiren
During the Silent Moments of War
From Gold to Stones
I Shall Remain Nameless
Muse
Parallel
Passing
Punishable By Death
School Nights
Tamar’s Story
The Catwoman Within
Through the Shunan Bamboo
Trash Doll
We Don’t
Welcome.
Fiction.
Spider’s web
Thanksgiving Day
The Irony of It All
Twenty-six and Thirty-five
Gallery.
Fall 2012
Fall 2012 Welcome
Fiction.
Justice of My Own
Light Blue Poem
Mirrors
Stand Your Ground
The Dream
The Ronald Reagan Era
Your Flesh
Poetry.
A Seemingly Sweet Encounter
Ain’t That Something
Cult leader? Only music please
Emmett’s Blues
Great Depression
II
Silent River
The Drink
Nonfiction.
Choco
On the guilt I can’t escape when I stop at red lights in Houston
On Water
Sawyer and Jasmine
Water
Bios.
Gallery.
Fall 2013
Fiction.
A Friend’s Manifestation
Queen of the Coven
The Dense Trail
Three Years a Love
Nonfiction.
Picking a Bluebonnet
The World Outside
Truth
Not Ordinary
The Small Revolution
Best-Friend Award
Poetry.
7, 6, 5 around the World
8 Weeks 4 Days
A Mermaid in the Spoon
A Modicum of Insanity
Fire Within
Honeysuckle Wind
Kerblasterry
On TV
Puzzle; or, a Walk on the Moon
Take It Up With Leah
The Day my Brother Died
The Water Chapter
Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Weeping Willow
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Window Pane
Truth be Told (A Poem Meant to be Spoken)
Wicked Game
Welcome
Gallery.
Bios.
Contributor Bios
Acknowledgements.
Fall 2014
Welcome
Fiction.
A Journey Through Great Smoky Mountains
Friends, Lovers, and Liars
Larry
Rags to Riches
Cat Ears
Voices Around Me
Where the Heart is
Poetry.
Aurora
Bloom
C’est la vie
Early Morning
Future Crossing
I Will Not
Imprint
In Front of a Mirror
In My Mother’s Hand
it’s late, and
It’s This Older Life I’m Afraid Of
Open my wings and fly
Princess
Snap Out of Your Fantasy
Some Where Distant
Until
Words
Your Queen
Nonfiction.
A Voice
Born This Way
From a Boy
She’s My Soldier
The Black Sheep
Vultures in the Flesh
Gallery.
Bios.
Acknowledgements
Spring 2010.
Bios.
Fiction.
The Unauthorized Biography of Me
Lullaby
Greetings and Salutations from Hallmark to Me to My Brother
My Architect Aunt and Uncle Underground
Memories
A Jewish Politician’s Reclamation and His Unfortunate Addiction to Coffee
Gallery.
Welcome.
Poetry.
Dancer
Untitled 1
Womb
#1
Admiration and Manipulation
Suite 607
Dawn to Dusk to Dust
On the vine
And & Again
Delocalized
The Tragedy of Cold Nights and Drunken Lives
Untitled
Indifferent Triumph
Untitled 2
Italien Meine Leibe
Acknowledgments.
Spring 2011.
Welcome.
Fiction.
ICD-10 F44.8
The Journey Home
Touched by People: The Couple from the Netherlands
Will You Be Mine?
Poetry.
Father
It Seems
Kirche und Kinder
Last Stand
Mostly But Not All
Ode to the Life of an Old Woman
Quiet Death
Regretting a Peony Field
Tahrir Square
The Crayon Box I Never Had
The Philosopher in Meditation
The Truth Is Like That
Creative Nonfiction.
Daughter
How I Am Coming to Terms with Justin Bieber
I Plead Not Guilty
My Best Friend
Running, Returning
Gallery.
Acknowledgments.
Bios.
Spring 2012.
Welcome.
Fiction.
Discovering Her Past Revealed Her Future
Les Jours Tristes
Shorebirds
Thy Neighbor
Poetry.
Be Ablaze
Church Girl
Equinox
Face of the Water
How to Read A Poem Out Loud
I Dream of Africa in Technicolor
I Dream of Rhubarb Pies
Land of Burnt Faces
My Way
Strong
Tree of Life
When Does It Rain?
Winter
Creative Nonfiction.
Babcia Project: I Will Never See You Again
GameBoy
The Eleventh of April
Gallery.
Bios.
Acknowledgments.
Spring 2014
Acknowledgements
Fiction
Falcon’s Grudge
Forged by Fire
King David
Suddenly I’m Famous
Nonfiction
Expedition Furnace
Footsteps in the Sand
Get the Pigs Out of My Plate
Immigrant
Oatmeal
Poetry
“Leaves and Dust. Dust and a Leaf”
Cold Snap
Epiphany
Mona Lisa
Numbered Tongues
Ode to a Pusherman
Reminiscent of Transcendence
Sticks and Stones
Sugar Skin
Translation
Welcome
Feature Section
The Boy, the Dream, and the Land
Untitled
Gallery
Bios
Spring 2015.
Welcome. Midtown Issue 10
Fiction.
Bush
Desert Sand
Excerpt: Ogygia
On the Way Home
Poetry.
“I went to the suburbs to get away”
Always the Listener
Black Philosophy
For a Life Worth Living
Growing Up
I Wake Up
My Eyes are Open
Oracle
Slashes Indicate Line Breaks
Tanka
That’s just it
The Empty Vase
The Sea and the Boat
The Side Eye Woman
Things are Being Made Clean
Things We Should Have Said
Time Travel
Waves in the Sky
Your Inquisition Caused Our Downfall
Nonfiction.
Boys Will Be Boys
Diabetes, The Economics of Eating Healthy, and My Family’s Story
On Approaching Graduation
The Old and New Grandpa
What is a Father
Who I Love
Gallery.
Bios.
Acknowledgements.
Poetry.
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