Tag: Issue 7

  • LITERARY ACTIVISM AND THE WRITING LIFE

    In a world fraught with political tensions and daily life and death matters, can our stories really make a difference? I had never been to a protest until two years ago; I went with friends to the Occupy March in Oakland. For the longest time, I was afraid of going to jail or of being…

  • Shannon Radigan

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  • Shannon Radigan

    Photographer Shannon Radigan is a based out of Asheville, NC. She is interested in the documentation of the existential crisis of the millennial generation through moody landscapes, quirky cityscapes, and uncouth portraits. The generation that has experienced the growth of technology and the fall of our economy with little control. The struggle many face while…

  • POST ABORTION QUESTIONNAIRE–POWERED BY SURVEY MONKEY

    after Oliver de la Paz  1. Do you feel reluctant to talk about the subject of abortion? In the center of the ceiling a marigold weeps or perhaps it’s an old chandelier. Inside, there’s an interior glow, shards illuminated in violet-pink  and layers of peeling gold leaf.  Such minds at night unfold. 2. Do you…

  • POST ABORTION QUESTIONNAIRE–POWERED BY SURVEY MONKEY

    after Oliver de la Paz  1. Do you feel reluctant to talk about the subject of abortion? In the center of the ceiling a marigold weeps or perhaps it’s an old chandelier. Inside, there’s an interior glow, shards illuminated in violet-pink  and layers of peeling gold leaf.  Such minds at night unfold. 2. Do you…

  • WAITING FOR LEAVES

    Your brain had already started unmaking the rest  of you: nothing but gray meat, memories unspooling  so rapidly they became entangled, became knotted. And the medication had stopped working, but still, I fed you the little blue pills, the ones that reminded me of the little blue butterflies you said Satan sent us—gifts of unforgivable…

  • VIGNETTES FROM 28,065 NIGHTS

    The First Day of Our Second Year Without You We visited your grave on Christmas Eve. Elliott helped me find you like we were playing hide and seek. Is Granny over here? No… Is Granny over there? We found you surrounded by poinsettias and candy canes. Elliott picked up a small branch and traced your…

  • Katie Manning

     is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Whale Road Review and an Associate Professor of Writing at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. Her full-length poetry collection, Tasty Other, won the 2016 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Find her at http://www.katiemanningpoet.com.

  • THE SCIENCE OF ___________

    “The French, I believe, have agreed on the term ‘aviation’  in case they ever succeed in flying.”—Century Magazine,  October 1891 Let’s agree on a word for _______ in case we ever succeed in ________ing. To the girls who lie down in fields, their bicycles on their sides, too, like horses asleep in the sun, know…