A POEM KNOCKS
By Noelle Sterne — A poem knocks, born in distant chambers. Embryonic words swim, wind through curving caves of mind, break through curving
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The
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literary
journal
for
Expressive
Writing
JOURNAL OF
EXPRESSIVE WRITING
THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
Explore the themes by prompt below:
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- Feb 15
Massachusetts
By Robert Knox — I am ready to forgive Florida, forgive Texas. They know not what they do, though they sure as well ought to, but I cannot
- Jan 2
The broken soul in my homeland
By Pawel Markiewicz — When I first read about a wartime-labor-camp in Bielsk Podlaski on the Internet, it was an autumn day a few weeks ago.
- Dec 24, 2022
THE TRIATHLON
By Judith Morgan Gray — I am standing knee deep in the open water of Lake Washington in a roped off area close to the shore. It is 6:30 am
- Nov 16, 2022
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Caregiver
By Madge Kaplan — The long-distance caregiver always worries. About the home aides coming in and out of her father's home, most of whom she
- Nov 2, 2022
Children's Reaction To Killings
By Hector Rodriguez — Children are watching the news. They see, feel and fear danger. There are killings in neighborhoods. There are
- Sep 14, 2022
LOFT BED
By Noelle Sterne — In the two-room, graduate-school apartment, one-eighth of a brownstone whose only virtue was eleven-foot ceilings, my new
- Aug 24, 2022
MMIW
By Casey Yasuda — Meet me in November, when everything is red, to the only time when my sisters’ names
aren’t unsaid. MMIW. But only in
- Jun 26, 2022
Hybrid Prose with Syd Barrett
By Mimi Bordeaux — If I chose prose to express myself would you want to be close? Dream on a lake shimmering gold is light flashing drake
- May 13, 2022
Spring’s Song
By Rupsingh Bhandari — The stream inside the jungle carries the messages of festive spring, singing its nursery rhyme heads to grow down.
- Apr 16, 2022
My Closet, Your Shame
By Maia Michelle Raven — She stared at the screen. She turned around and slapped me. Whack. She slapped me again. My face is burning. I run
- Mar 23, 2022
First Dance
By John L Swainston — Remembered what my grandfather had told me: “Want a girlfriend, make the loneliest girl happy.” Walked up to her,
- Feb 24, 2022
Ask Me
By Britta Benson — The spray, the spit,
the grit of determination. These are the paperweights keeping the world in her place.
Add the fickl
- Feb 6, 2022
One Hour Photo
By Gale Acuff — One day when I'm dead I'm supposed to come to life again, I think I'll be in my grave, my soul with my body, if I have one,
- Dec 30, 2021
Someplace
By Moriah Hampton — I want to lead
you there, find you there, follow you there, someplace, where I feel safe and you feel safe, where I
- Dec 1, 2021
She Could Be Me
By Phyllis Rittner — Both my parents had dementia. I lie awake nights convinced I have the gene. I work with folks in their eighties and
- Nov 5, 2021
Why am I a 28 year old Virgin?
By Aaron Curry — Ask me. Why am I a 28 year old virgin? Growing up in an area that's promiscuous and urban. Why, for the most part, have I
- Oct 20, 2021
Ask Me Your Fortune, If You Dare!
By Anita Nahal — Lentil or meat in a steaming hot pot. Reeked heavy and was badly sought. Remnants of birds in the ladle. Ramifications
- Sep 17, 2021
The Origins of Creative Endeavours
By Todd Sullivan — I end every Zoom interview the same way. “Before we go, do you have any final questions?” I've interviewed some 90
- Sep 4, 2021
Through the Evening Fog
By Yuna Kang — It is hard enough to love you, harder still to remember you.
I scribble down the final pulses of trauma you gave me, hoping
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