With this week’s theme of “Endings,” we thought it appropriate to share our nominations for The Pushcart Prize 2020. For those unfamiliar, Pushcart Press produces a yearly anthology to showcase work from small book presses and little magazines. (Despite the pachyderm, we’re really a little fish, so you know.) Submissions for the anthology, however, must come from the online publication Read More
Tag: mia wright
keep your eye
by Mia Wright (Uses excerpts from the song “Anticipate” by Ani DiFranco.) 1.“we don’t say everything that we couldso that we can say later, ‘oh, you misunderstood’”in the story I heard,someone else played the role of villain,though my mother never revealedtheir evil deed.she just said it, like slidinga note underneath the door.When my mother doesn’t giveexplanations willingly,don’t even bother asking. Read More
what we can learn from water
by Mia Wright freeze.do not be afraid of rigidmoments in this lifefor we all harden.sometimesthere is not enough warmthto sustain us, but waterteaches leaves and riverseach winterto get still and let go:of undulating in riverbedsof painting the trees in brilliant greenof life as we know it.encased in the silenceof icy immobilityis a promise of something new.just wait.you will thawand live, Read More