Childhood… for some a gleeful, loving time. For others, endless trauma and despair. Like childhood, a swing can be a reflection of pure joy, letting a child soar into the sky, believing they can sweep their hand through the fleecy, luminescent clouds. For some children, however, joy is overshadowed by […]

By Jason Larsen Artist Statement: “In Samuel Corales’ Interactive Creative Writing Class this past quarter, he asked us to list three things that we would take to another planet and three things we would leave on Earth.” I have three Amazon Echo smart devices, and I would take them all […]

Everyday when I wake up, the first thing I see when open the curtains of my balcony door, I see a certain mural. This mural is very hard to miss because it takes up the side of three steel-framed, yellow brick buildings, the primary building being five-and-half stories tall. This […]

by Kristin CONTENT WARNING: This poem references domestic abuse, family trauma, suicide, and mental health, and may be triggering for some readers. There’s so much about you that I’ll never knowI inherited your bloodline and self-contemptYet I have so little information on who you really were I remember your gregarious […]

3/1/2022WHERE LOVE LEADS  Love for the way it feels when your love is shared.  Love gives us all possibilities   Love is to choose our better instinct  Writing stimulates the imagination   Unconsciousness so I can dream about what I don’t know  Love is to choose one’s better instinct  My car brings […]

A short story by George Beavis. From the author: I have been trying, emphasis on trying, to write about my experiences in Vietnam in a way that I hoped would be more understandable to other people. I think, or hope, I have learned some ways to do that.  If I have […]

by Neysa PetersonMarch 9, 2022 Beating wings thrumHummingbird tongueSlender needleSipping nectar Simply nourishingWatching with wonderSenses soothedSpirit renewed Image clingsWhen disquiet ringsSolace sought againWhere do I begin With beating wingsNourishingWatching with wonder  Hummingbird tongues

A Short Story by George Beavis, PWA Participant Artist & Veteran Truth and Lies are both secrets. The heat makes the black sticky stuff in the streets into little bubbles that I can pop with my finger. Sometimes the black stuff sticks to my finger. I wipe it on the […]

Artist Statement by Jason Larsen Samuel Corales, the instructor of the current Interactive Creative Writing class, asked us to take a song and then jumble them up in spoken word form in a way that means something to us. This is mine. Have you never been happy Just to hear […]

By Sarah L. Blum, Nurse and Vietnam Veteran Content Warning: mentions of violence, mental health, suicide The poem by Amanda Gorman, New Day’s Lyric, ends with a focus on coming together. I believe that is the key. There is so much hatred and violence which drives us apart from one […]