Call for Submissions – The Cupboard

The quarterly prose chapbook series The Cupboard is considering creative prose submissions between 4,000 and 8,000 words for its next issue through September 1.  Submissions may be composed of one piece or multiple pieces.  The Cupboard is published in Lincoln, Nebraska by co-editors Emily Danforth, Dave Madden, and Adam Peterson and features a body of [...]

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Two Archetypal Years

Two years ago on this day, with a succinct, autogenous “Hello, World!” announcing its quiet arrival on the heavily populated, cyber literary landscape, Archetype was born.  Originally conceived to chronicle my journey through Chapman University’s MFA program, I promptly posted original essay excerpts on Jonathan Franzen and the waning of a literary America (“Antisocial or [...]

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Emplumada

When summer ended the leaves of snapdragons withered taking their shrill-colored mouths with them. They were still, so quiet.  They were violet where umber now is.  She hated and she hated to see them go.  Flowers   born when the weather was good – this she thinks of, watching the branch of peaches daring their [...]

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Still Point Arts Quarterly

Still Point Arts Quarterly is a printed art and literary journal that features provocative articles and essays (approximately 400 to 1,500 words) about art, the concept of art, the creation of art, and all aspects of being an artist.  Submissions of fiction in which art as a medium is emphasized prominently are especially welcomed.  Each [...]

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Exeunt

Piecemeal the summer dies; At the field’s edge a daisy lives alone; A last shawl of burning lies On a gray field-stone.   All cries are thin and terse; The field has droned the summer’s final mass; A cricket like a dwindled hearse Crawls from the dry grass.   ~ Richard Wilbur  

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This Fall’s Literary Lineup

With company budgets to write, marathons to run, academic convention deadlines to meet, and back-to-school demands to fulfill, fall has almost always been the most exhilarating time of year for me.  After the somewhat slower pace of summer, the requirements and velocity of my jam-packed (and, yes, largely self-imposed) fall schedule seem impossible.  Despite thoughtful advance [...]

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“Our Valley” by New U.S. Poet Laureate

We don’t see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August when the worst heat seems to rise from the hard clay of this valley, you could be walking through a fig orchard when suddenly the wind cools and for a moment you get a whiff of salt, and in that moment you can [...]

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Troilus and Cressida

Can life be a blessing, Or worth the possessing, Can life be a blessing if love were away? Ah no! though our love all night keep us waking, And though he torment us with cares all the day, Yet he sweetens, he sweetens our pains in the taking, There’s an hour at the last, there’s [...]

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Writers Faire

The UCLA Extension Writers’ Program is hosting the 2011 Writers Faire on Sunday, August 28.  This event features twenty-four mini-classes and panel discussions about creative writing and screenwriting, as well as the opportunity to network with more than sixty-five writers, instructors, and graduate program advisors.   The Writers Faire will be held in the Young Hall [...]

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Long Island Sound

I see it as it looked one afternoon In August,– by a fresh soft breeze o’erblown. The swiftness of the tide, the light thereon, A far-off sail, white as a crescent moon. The shining waters with pale currents strewn, The quiet fishing-smacks, the Eastern cove, The semi-circle of its dark, green grove. The luminous grasses, [...]

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