Connecting with Brian Kiteley’s “Dr. Black”
by Brooke Allen · April 29, 2018Getting older is a way of life. It’s just the way it is. Adults fear each coming birthday, but children celebrate them. Children love the idea [...]
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In Gratitude for Mary Oliver’s “On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate (Psalm 145)”
by Brooke Floyd · April 19, 2018In her poem “On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate (Psalm 145),” first published in Five Points, Volume 10, numbers 1 & 2, Mary Oliver gives a [...]
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Connecting with Geoff Bouvier’s “Cosmic Joke”
by Jordyn Jackson · April 18, 2018The universe has a funny way of giving us exactly what we ask for and making us regret it just as soon as we get it. [...]
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Connecting with “Apocalypso”
by Anthony Flanagan · April 19, 2018To wake up in the morning and open two eyes, or maybe one eye first, just to test the water, just to make sure everything’s okay, [...]
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Connecting with Paul Lisicky’s “The Boy and His Mother Are Stuck!”
by Kurt Forbes · April 16, 2018Sometimes, we find in life that lemons are just that, lemons. The jug in which you prepared to catch the water raining down on you has [...]
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Connecting With T.R. Hummer’s “Cheap Glass Vase at the Jazz Singer’s Grave”
by Mayuni Karr · April 17, 2018You’ve waited for this day for four years. All of the dreadful 8:00am classes, waiting in long lines in the bookstore, and those nights you spent [...]
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