2020… Fibonacci Spiral, or Why Four Middle Schoolers Are Enough by Sheryl Lain 5 May 2020 A Fibonacci spiral follows the sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, etc., where each number is the sum of the two numbers before it; pineapples, starfish, sunflower…
2020… Three Poems by Jean Prokott 5 May 20206 May 2020 BIRTH And at night, Uncle Duane would sleep with the upstairs window open in the farmhouse, let the wet, August night saturate the sheets and listen for the gurgling cries…
2019… We Follow by Sheryl Lain 26 Apr 201915 Sep 2019 I rode with Dad in our old Ford pickup, through a spring blizzard. Thick white snow blinded us. I was safe and warm inside Dad’s competence as he drove to…
2017… We Made it for You by Daniel Ellis 3 May 201727 Sep 2019 I’m here to speak truth. I’m here to speak truth. I’m here to speak truth. Truth in the light of histories textbooks. That deny my heritage. Truth in the light…
2017… Poetry Selections from Joshua Feliciano 3 May 201727 Sep 2019 More Than Just Words Poetry is like a song written on paper It doesn’t always have to rhyme It doesn’t always need time You could make a poem in poetry…
2016… The Four Deaths of Mitchell Fish by Luke Daly 2 May 201627 Sep 2019 [pdf version here: Daly-FourDeathsofMitchellFish] [see the companion essay "Teaching Fiction: Craft, Composition Theory, and a Lie"] I. Oxygen I slash in like a dull knife but don’t tip into the…
2015… Five Poems by Dallas Crow 30 Apr 201527 Sep 2019 [pdf version here: Crow-poems] Antigone in Her Tomb _____________________________________________________________________________ Zeus, Your will, finally, is unknowable. I am exhausted, exasperated. Look where my most willful vows have landed me. Father,…
2014… 4 Poems by Richard Robbins 1 Apr 201427 Sep 2019 St. Francis and the Birds —a painting by Stanley Spencer The parade will go no further than the wall, where the gardener shields her eyes, the ducks, hens,…
