Tag: Issue 11

  • Patricia Powell

    Patricia Powell is the author of Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda and The Fullness of Everything. She is the recipient of a PEN New England Discovery Award and a Lila-Wallace Readers Digest Writer’s Award. Powell has taught creative writing at Harvard University, U-Mass, MIT and Mills College.  Powell teaches Fiction in our low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program. 

  • On Listening

    I’ve been thinking about the community we create in workshop every week, coming together as strangers meeting for the first time, and undertaking the tasks of listening, of turning a critical eye to the work, of sharing ideas, inspiring each other and creating an environment that is nurturing and intellectually stimulating.  I’ve also been thinking…

  • In Character

    MEL, 22, is alone a rehearsal space in NYC. She holds her phone in her hand. She is waiting for someone. After a few beats, STEVE, 40s, enters. Whenever possible, Steve should cut off the end of Mel’s sentences. Mel immediately stands to greet Steve.   MEL Hey man, thanks for meeting me. I know…

  • Ryan and Alice?

    Production History: Ryan and Alice? had its world premiere on June 2, 2016 at the Cincy Fringe Festival, Cincinnati, OH (Andrew Hungerford, Artistic Director). It was directed by Emma Miller; it was produced by Carly Mungovan. The cast was as follows: ALICE…Julia Greer RYAN…Aaron Lynn   Characters: ALICE (19, female) RYAN (22, male)   Setting:…

  • Basil

    I BUY A BASIL plant for the summer. The plant had stood alone, perched on a barren shelf at Trader Joe’s—lush, a tempting canopy cloud of green. I do not expect it to last the summer, not weeks of leading hiking and camping trips for middle-schoolers throughout the High Sierras of California. But my heart…

  • Maximum Compound: Valentine’s Day Belongs to the She-Wolf

      Clinton, New Jersey   She’s really beautiful. Can you find some I Love You Cards and send them to her and just sign my name? I have a teddy bear being made and a matching ring earring and necklace set. –Krystal Riordan, Inmate #661387   & Seen from the air, the Edna Mahan Correctional…

  • Maximum Compound: Valentine’s Day Belongs to the She-Wolf

      Clinton, New Jersey   She’s really beautiful. Can you find some I Love You Cards and send them to her and just sign my name? I have a teddy bear being made and a matching ring earring and necklace set. –Krystal Riordan, Inmate #661387   & Seen from the air, the Edna Mahan Correctional…

  • Contact Lenses

    (1) it is a tongue holding itself like an ear. its rims can’t keep their shape. they lisp into the mattress, leave the sheet apostrophed against the wall, head slapped, gagged in froth, dreams tipped, bound in bruise-fade.   in the morning it is an eye. it draws white-flash fences on its locked doors. where…

  • the next field over

    unlike borders, etched in the earth                                             with a knife, headlines are often written delicate; a fuse, a blast, a city that was                                       and they soften the blow in a language today’s dead never spoke.                                                              i am reminded words always translate when buried in the earth…