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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Kind Writers
- Sep 17, 2020
- 3 min
Declaring War on Language by Shayleene MacReynolds
A professional career coach taught me that the single greatest contributor to any workplace conflict begins with a breakdown in...
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Kind Writers
- Sep 10, 2020
- 3 min
Kindness in the time of COVID: The Importance of Practicing Self-Kindness by J. Jeff Ray
As I write this, the United States is entering its fifth—or sixth, who is counting anymore?—month in the battle against the deadly...
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Kind Writers
- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
How Quarantine Can Be Seen As a Gift
Announced on March 29th was a precaution taken against the Coronavirus. What was that precaution? Social distancing and staying away from...
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Kind Writers
- Aug 26, 2020
- 2 min
Empathy Machine: Empathy in 2019 Films | Zac Oldenburg
Movies have been around for over 100 years now, and ever since then they have been about putting yourself in someone else's shoes. What...
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Kind Writers
- Aug 19, 2020
- 3 min
An Oath of Ethics By Shayleene MacReynolds
My father always said that what is written is forever. In today’s technological age, that certainly seems to be the case. We are...
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Kind Writers
- Aug 12, 2020
- 6 min
Reading the Map By Annabelle Bonebrake
We deploy the police for so much. We do it so easily and so casually and so habitually. And the only thing making me feel somewhat good...
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