What Once Was:Amber Castellanos
Aged wooden chairs in the summer of 2011 gnarled with antiqueness and crayon stains I can still find them if I look hard enough colored...
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mangalfrshta
- Oct 20, 2021
- 1 min
Spitting- Image by Amber Castellanos
She was gone before I could even comprehend what death was. for the longest time she was just the one who could never sit still for a...
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mangalfrshta
- Oct 13, 2021
- 2 min
Why I Hate Weed by Amber Castellanos
I learned in D.A.R.E about the pointy plant that grows in the ground earned a T-shirt and a dance for a promise That Beats in my stomach...
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mangalfrshta
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
From This High by Amber Castellanos
You use to be my favorite view I watched as you danced around my carcass Like the Windigo begging for more More you whispered and I...
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mangalfrshta
- Sep 29, 2021
- 1 min
Glimmer by Amber Castellanos
I'll shine like a glimmer on the river The one you see on the freeway as you pass El Monte Where the homeless linger in the bushes Their...
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mangalfrshta
- Sep 8, 2021
- 4 min
DC Diamondopolous [Fiction]
1992 A black cloud of smoke near the intersection of Florence and Normandie drifted toward Mrs. Kim’s California Dry Cleaning store in...
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Kind Writers
- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Gerard Sarnat [Poetry]
POET READING THE NEWS [3] 1. Space Balls 3: Pox On Third Rock From The Sun Jeff Bezos calls for moving ‘all polluting industry into...
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mangalfrshta
- Apr 28, 2021
- 2 min
Oldies Goodies by Frshta Mangal
Quote of the day: “There are those who give joy, and that joy is their reward” – Kahlil Gibran. I spend a lot of time driving because of...
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Kind Writers
- Apr 21, 2021
- 3 min
diary for today | Ghosts 4.21.21
Hello again everybody! I’m popping back in to make another post for this wonderful blog. As I was mulling over what to talk about, it...
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mangalfrshta
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
Your Story By Marisela Gomez
I grew up watching telenovelas with my mother and sister. We would laugh, cry and immerse ourselves in the dreams of our heroine, while...
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mangalfrshta
- Apr 7, 2021
- 2 min
Notes on Digging by Annabelle Bonebrake
Digging is a process of uncovering, getting past everyday consciousness into the movements of poetry. In everyday life, we live in a...
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Kind Writers
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
diary for today | Ramblings - March 31, 2021
On the verge of April, a warmer-than-usual day wakes me from my sleep. I wipe the sleep from my eyes, and blink at the time on my phone....
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Kind Writers
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Image: Excerpt from Voces de las Mujeres in My FamilyBy Marisela Gomez
m: Ella te ve en mi cuando se enoja. Me dice que tengo tus orejas y soy igual de sorda. Ella te recuerda / solo cuando no la quiero...
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Kind Writers
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
Rugrats, A progressive show by Frshta Mangal
Have you ever had a role model and you didn’t even know it? I have and her name was Angelica Pickles. Angelica Pickles was the...
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Kind Writers
- Mar 10, 2021
- 3 min
Interstate: Expert from Voces de la Mujeres in My Family By Marisela Gomez
m: Vivías en una memoria, enlodada y sin sol. Solo vivías en esa memoria, / solo existías en esa memoria. M: My mother’s hands wrapped...
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Kind Writers
- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
Shrimp Souffle by Annabelle Bonebrake
Shrimp Souffle “When people can email me the shrimp souffle instead of the recipe for it, then I’ll get email!” -Diane De Prima, First...
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Frshta Mangal
- Feb 24, 2021
- 4 min
Gold by Frshta Mangal
When I was a senior in high school, I really wanted to give the senior speech but I wasn’t valedictorian and I wasn’t the senior class...
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Kind Writers
- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
I Found Her | Marisela Gomez
A woman made of fall leaves keeps visiting my dreams. It's strange, I can't see a clear female body, but I know that it is a woman made...
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Kind Writers
- Feb 3, 2021
- 2 min
Book Review: The Only Light Coming In | Joseph Hardy
Poetry suggests something different than any other kind of writing. It asks of us to imagine a world in which the reader has to slow...
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Kind Writers
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
The Gifting Of Us | Cole Turner
Holidays are usually filled with opening gifts, family, and a lot of food. The early Christmases of my childhood consisted of the gifts...
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Kind Writers
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
diary for today | Movement. - Jacqueline Molina
today i finally cleaned my corner of the room. an old, yet-to-be-used easel. the heap of dusty sketchbooks, now a home for tiny mites and...
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Kind Writers
- Dec 9, 2020
- 5 min
Artist Highlight | Kim Young 2020
When did you first identify yourself as a poet/artist? I’ve been carrying around these little notebooks, writing things down in them...
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Kind Writers
- Dec 2, 2020
- 1 min
Old Year, New Year | Annabelle Bonebrake
I love endings. The sweet sorrow of December is upon us, and I’m hanging lights and making plans in spite of it all. We’ve solved the...
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Kind Writers
- Nov 25, 2020
- 2 min
Radio Waves | Jacqueline Molina
Some days I wake up with a song playing in my head. Maybe it doesn’t happen right when I wake up. Maybe it’s at work, at the times when...
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Kind Writers
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Nombre: Excerpt from Voces de las Mujeres in My Family | Marisela Gomez
m: Tu nombre aparece en momentos sin importancia en la carretera, camino a casa y una canción recordando a un padre suena sin previo...
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Kind Writers
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
Literary Traditions | Annabelle Bonebrake
I started writing letters this month. Handwritten, enveloped, stamped-and-mailed letters. I sent them to friends I’ve known for years,...
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Kind Writers
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
This Halloween, Do It For Yourself | Annabelle Bonebrake
Like many ghouls, as soon as I sense the light shift in August, I start dreaming of Halloween. I grew up in a suburban house full of...
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Kind Writers
- Oct 15, 2020
- 3 min
Participating In The Magic Of Who We Are | Cole Turner
Growing up, Halloween was a very different Holiday for me than it was for my friends. My parents, particularly my mom, was very...
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Kind Writers
- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
Capsaicin: Chiles con Sal | By Marisela Gomez
A mother sat across her young son at her kitchen table with a basket of yellow chilies in the center. The morning sun and sea breeze...
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Kind Writers
- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
Blueberries | Shayleene MacReynolds
I was at the market not too long ago, when a woman in line dropped a box of blueberries. I watched as they went everywhere, and in every...
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Kind Writers
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
Stage 6 | Marisela Gomez
Sequel to Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” By Marisela Gomez The parents howled and each gave me one last...
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