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September 19, 2018

45 by Allie Marini

Allie Marini is a cross-genre writer holding degrees from both Antioch University of Los Angeles & New College of Florida. She has published a number of chapbooks, including Pictures from the Center of The Universe (Paper Nautilus, winner of the Vella Prize) and Southern Cryptozoology: A Field Guide to Beasts of the Southern Wild (Hyacinth Girl Press, finalist for the SFPA’s Elgin Award) In addition to her work on the page, Allie was a member of Oakland’s 2017 National Slam Team. A native Floridian now freezing to death in the Bay Area, Allie writes poetry, fiction, and essays. Find her online: www.alliemarini.com.

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How to Write a Headline Without Telling the Whole Story

Please click below to read Allie Marini's poem, "How to Write a Headline Without Telling the Whole Story," which was written using a newspaper headline where an unarmed civilian was killed by police (2015). How to Write a Headline Without…

The Ocean Listens

Geneva peace talks on a subject of the lives not living in the crematorium heat of a Damascus prison only break bread between those not given a holy perspective on the horrors they’ve driven. Flour, water and time - a…

Belial

It was a beautiful night. A little cold, but beautiful. That’s what he told me, it was beautiful, okay? And she was out there, walking, working - this hooker. Not as beautiful as the night, he said, but not a…

The Dress (Lantern Woman)

the sadness swallows and before i punch and claw and clip to be spit up, everything is drenched to dark and dew and i’m returned to the damp dusk and told goodbye knees kneed in palms kneed skin all in…

Watch the World Burn

When the world around you is burning, how do you strike a match to create your own flame? How do you burn bright amidst the coal-black soot that has come to cover us all like Vesuvius raining down on those…

Newspaper Clippings

I tear news clippings from newspapers to remember flesh and blood martyrs. Now please understand when I say that I don't want to get political, But when my worth is questioned due to homophobia, I have reason to…