Flying Close To The Sun -
Taking risks, doing what they said can't be done, we want to hear about the daring ... the big, big successes and the it-was-worth-it-all-even-tho'-I-didn't-make-it other kind of success.
Lucinda Nelson Dhavan
With no room to pace in my shared apartment, I paced the cold streets of Boston all of one February day, having a lonely lunch and too much espresso in the North End, while I asked myself, over and over, if I dared to do it. Did I dare marry the man I’d met in India. read on >>
Linda Boyden
With deliberate purpose,
I weave on my loom of life, read on >>
Reviewed Julie R. Enszer
In the poem, Arcana answers the question that is always meant to stump: "What if your mother had an abortion?" Her mother did. read on >>
Semia Harbawi
I always have this dream in which my mother is bathing my body, trying to scrub it clean with all her might. Suddenly, she huffs and puffs, as if stricken by a mysterious evil, making as if to claw at my face and gouge out my eyes that are so much like those of my father, that man who threw his fickle young mistress from the third floor of a run-down building before swallowing half a bottle of hydrochloric acid. read on >>