by BlogEditor | Jun 1, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, The Keeping Room
At first, I loved the attention. Everyone at school had a sort of hushed concern that I had a serious health condition. The school was unusually permitting in their allowance of my absences for the doctors’ appointments. It was all of the spotlight and concern without...
by BlogEditor | May 25, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
Shipping Charges -For two-day poem deliverythe cost goes up over ten linesA poem overnightis even more expensiveThe UPS man is a limerick Load In Quarantine -When we took walksall we did was look at our phones.Trapped inside, there was infinite timeto hurl...
by BlogEditor | Mar 24, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
Laura Ingram is a tiny girl with big glasses and bigger ideas. Her poetry and prose have been published in over seventy literary journals, among them The Cactus Heart Review, Gravel, Glass Kite Anthology and Voice of Eve. Her first collection, Junior...
by BlogEditor | Mar 19, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times/2017), Coffin Bell Two (Coffin Bell/2019) in print: 2River, Adelaide, Genre Urban Arts, Gravitas, In Parentheses, Kansas City Voices, Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Night Picnic...
by BlogEditor | Mar 12, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
Emily Reid Green’s poetry has appeared in various publications, including: Gravel, Khroma Magazine, 1932 Quarterly, Moon Magazine, and The Ekphrastic Review. Her first chapbook Still Speak was published earlier this year by Writing Knights...
by BlogEditor | Mar 8, 2021 | Poetry, The Keeping Room
Amber Wozniak is, above all things, an eldest child. She has an English writing degree from Seton Hall University and currently works as a healthcare program manager and editor. Her time outside of work is devoted to her true loves: her daughter, literature, and...
by BlogEditor | Mar 5, 2021 | Fiction
I thought I’d be happier to step onto American soil. It was home, after all. I thought it would be comforting or reassuring or something. I thought it would feel like home. But looking at the giant ass American flag across from the escalator came with an emotion I...
by BlogEditor | Feb 26, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, The Keeping Room
“… to the children of our country, regardless of your gender, our country has sent you a clear message: Dream with ambition, lead with conviction, and see yourselves in a way that others may not, simply because they’ve never seen it before…” ...
by Kim Brown | Jan 29, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, The Keeping Room
There have been many over the years; wives and girlfriends of my two valiant sons—beautiful and brilliant women—flamboyant artists, radical feminists, women with complicated tattoos over entire parts of their bodies, women who wrote postmodern poetry or carried...
by BlogEditor | Jan 25, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, The Keeping Room
My body of skin holds the story of my life. Skin holds memory the way the Earth harbors fossils. A touch becomes permanent. The day when I was six years old, walking home from school and recalling the nun had told us we could pray anytime, anywhere. I stopped and...
