by Sean Avery | Jun 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Prayer (Song) for Magic [Introduction]17-year-old Trayvon Martin fatally shot by 28-year-old George Zimmerman17-year-old Jordan Davis fatally shot by 45-year-old Michael Dunn18-year-old Michael Brown fatally shot by 28-year-old police officer Darren Wilson12-year-old...
by Lisa Vihos | Jun 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Please be advised that snow globes are not allowed through the security check point. —LaGuardia Airport sign Is this because of the snow? Or because of the little housesthat nestle inside the snow? I imagine it...
by Marilyn Shapiro Leys | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
First the eyes, he thought. Watch the eyes—where are the eyes watching? Forward, searching over heads, sorting out the familiar ones ahead on the rickety gangplank? Or backward, back to the steamship, the eyes glancing over the shoulder—the right shoulder, usually,...
by Jason Splichal | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
Anyone who has ever kept a secretKnows that letters cannot be burned in a bundle Even after the fire eats through the stringOr ribbonOr rubber bandThat binds themThe letters huddle together like childrenSo those at the core of the clutchRemain untouchedAs flames live...
by Richard Roe | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
The week her grandfather died, she recalleddancing with him at her sister’s wedding,the gardenia, his neatly parted white hair,a tango he likened to snow falling in calm wind. You were quick to learn, he told her, and sheremembers his hand against her shoulderblade,...
