Nonfiction

BRILLIANT CORNERS: An Experiment in Visual Prosodyby Michael Milburn I was naked without my line ends.Robert Lowell, letter to Elizabeth Bishop             A few years ago I found myself adjusting the line lengths in my poems,...

SANTA CLARA RIVERLESSBy Ellen T. Birrell  We are hard to find. If you were to search our address for directions, you would only get to the end of the county maintained road about two miles...

    THE COFFEE PLANTATIONby Ana Lucia de Leon   By virtue of being children, we can sleep anywhere and in the smallest of places. The shared beds have no room for star-sleepers or Shavasana enthusiasts. Instead, we...

You’ll Always Be the Trump Neighbors I’ve seen you walking your dogs around the neighborhood. Almost every day for the last 17 years, ever since we built this house in a far-south suburb of our...

CHANGING THE SCORE ‘When trauma affects us, we can’t fully engage with the present.’ My therapist, Sue, sits back after this pronouncement, face brimming with empathic concern. I stare. What the hell is she talking about?...

Great Expectations: A Birth Story “She could be here by tomorrow morning.” my wife Rachel beamed.             I was equally as excited, “I just can’t wait to meet her.” Somehow under the impression that my newborn...

HOW FAR FROM ONE DEGREEby Sharon Y. Sim On that sweltering island nation one degree above the equator, we bawled our first breaths. Decades later, at that temperate city named after a redwoodtree thirty-seven degrees north...

I Dreamt I Could Not Find My Car by James Hanna             Mary and I sit on the back porch of our Florida retirement home. It is dusk, and we are gazing at the largest moon that...

You Are My Sunshine Evelyn and I rocked in the glider. With her birth two months before we expected, we had little more than a crib, mattress, and a carseat. We had some clothes and...

THE WRITING THERAPEUTIC EXPERIENCEand Does Inspiration Always Comefrom Within?By Raymond Fenech PhD    I always knew that there was something special about being a writer, whether one conveyed messages in prose or poetic forms. Since aged...