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Poetry & Entanglement: On ‘Waiting for Word’ & My Writing Life
Poetry & Entanglement: On ‘Waiting for Word’ & My Writing Life
A. Jay Adler talks about humanity, entanglement, the craft of writing, & inspiration behind his new poetry book.
Alternating Current Press
Feb 17
Tara: An Excerpt from Rebecca Baum’s ‘Lifelike Creatures’
Tara: An Excerpt from Rebecca Baum’s ‘Lifelike Creatures’
Fiction by Rebecca Baum
Alternating Current Press
Feb 16
The Wild Boy
The Wild Boy
Ekphrastic Flash Fiction by Alice Kaltman
Alternating Current Press
Dec 8, 2020
DaguerreoTyped Ekphrastic Photos & Responses
DaguerreoTyped #24: October 2019 Photo Prompt Writing Challenge
DaguerreoTyped #24: October 2019 Photo Prompt Writing Challenge
Each month, Alternating Current Press presents an ekphrastic challenge for writers and lovers of history.
Alternating Current Press
Oct 2, 2019
DaguerreoTyped #20: Ekphrastic Response by Hannah Huff
DaguerreoTyped #20: Ekphrastic Response by Hannah Huff
Hannah Huff responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with the poem ‘A Routine Groundbreaking.’
Alternating Current Press
Aug 17, 2019
DaguerreoTyped #18: Ekphrastic Response by R. J. Keeler
DaguerreoTyped #18: Ekphrastic Response by R. J. Keeler
R. J. Keeler responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with the poem “Trade (Among the Equilibrists).”
Alternating Current Press
Jan 5, 2019
DaguerreoTyped #16: Ekphrastic Response by Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita
DaguerreoTyped #16: Ekphrastic Response by Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita
Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with “What Can a Woman Do.”
Alternating Current Press
Sep 13, 2018
Personal Essays, Narratives, & Memoir
Smoke Trapped in Ivy: Cigar Ashes & Bad Therapy
Smoke Trapped in Ivy: Cigar Ashes & Bad Therapy
Harley Taff talks about the friendships that got her through therapy & the necessary agonies of starting over.
Alternating Current Press
Nov 2, 2020
How to Survive the 20th Anniversary of a Mass Shooting
How to Survive the 20th Anniversary of a Mass Shooting
Krista Hanley, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine mass shooting, lists how she prepares for the trauma and scars 20 years later.
Krista Hanley
Apr 20, 2019
Fika; or, The Enjoyment of Coffee
Fika; or, The Enjoyment of Coffee
Nicholas Powell writes an ode to coffee, quality time, and the gender-assigning of objects, and it all might just be a metaphor.
Yourwolfsdengaming
Apr 17, 2019
Kawasaki Is Not a Motorcycle: A Father’s Struggle with His Son’s Rare Illness
Kawasaki Is Not a Motorcycle: A Father’s Struggle with His Son’s Rare Illness
Jake Camp relives the trauma and uncertainty of his son’s battle with the rare vascular disorder Kawasaki Disease.
Jake Camp
Apr 15, 2019
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