How Expressive Writing Is helping Me Feel, Deal and Heal
By Grace Calder — In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, the Harlem State Office Building in New York City is where I found a sense of closure
May 29, 2021
White Flowers
By Leonore Wilson — In the foothills of May, these wild ones, long lost lovers, racemes of floral buds, water-tight, grass like and a few
May 28, 2021
Common Sense
By Steve Bailey — As one who has stayed home and ventured out for only food and medical needs for the last year and on those occasions wore
May 26, 2021
Paper Birds
By Theresa Gaynord — What if George Floyd’s memories hadn’t faded? What if kindness shut out the clouds? What if
sunshine fell upon the lid
May 25, 2021
What Does the World Want from Me?
By Nicola Ranson — The emails want answering. The bills want paying. The garden wants watering. The calls want returning. The gifts want
May 22, 2021
Swim in New Water
By Sha Huang — In charge of my inner room, in charge of no others, exchange our colors, your purple, my blue, recharge myself with more
May 21, 2021
I Run
By Ellie Gober — I will not rest until I cannot go farther. At least that is what I tell myself. The pounding of my feet,
the pounding of
May 20, 2021
The Sky in California
By Sarah Henry — The sky looks a citrus shade since the inferno keeps blazing. A fault line runs across the state where thousands die from
May 18, 2021
Be Grateful
By Nikkia Newton — Be careful that you sit across from a friend and eat lunch. Be grateful that you can still live to make a mistake. Be
May 17, 2021
Four Moments
By Alisha Foster — Seeing you for the first time shocked me— Like seeing someone I thought was dead. I forgot myself, crowded over to touch
May 12, 2021
Irreparable
By John Maurer — Drop a chandelier of stained glass into my branches, so irreparable, still kind of enchanting, a good memory
That is har
May 11, 2021
Happiness Out and About
By Santana Kay — Cheap perfumes and public buses, people in and out of league; crammed in their own little worlds, wearing crestfallen faces
May 10, 2021
Just Passing Through
By Madge Kaplan — I know we’re both waiting outside a hospital’s locked psychiatric unit. But I won’t be doing this more than once or twice.
May 8, 2021
The Librarian
By Crystal James — No one noticed as I curled up under the huge tires that were half in the frozen ground. It sounds like I played in a
May 5, 2021
April 2020: Quarantine, Week Five
By Magdalena Bartkowska — Today, I yelled at my eight-year-old son for doing a math problem wrong and refusing to try it my way. My four
May 3, 2021
Color Blind!
By Jyoti Nair — Especially on Holi, make me color-blind. Liberate me from color-cacophony and clangor. They have been bludgeoning my
May 1, 2021
Dear Grandma,
By Linda Petrucelli — Thank you for the many times you welcomed me into your apartment to spend the night. I loved climbing up the
Apr 22, 2021
