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…
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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…
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Closet
It’s not a walk-in closet, bi-fold doors, white shuttered rectangle for clothes, I make much more: flashlight, library stash, shag floor, a hole I lay in darkness -- carpet snake. I’m not allowed to lock a bedroom door. They own…
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We the Pennies
The only change I’ve ever found in this damned world was some discarded pennies. I’ve found them in the alleyways, high on misplaced dreams. I’ve found them left on Wall Street, trashed by American greed. I’ve found them in grocery…
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May of Another Hard Year: Some Thoughts
Click on the link below to access the PDF for Michael Farrell Smith's visually-formatted lyric memoir essay with erasures, May of another Hard Year: Some Thoughts. May of another Hard Year: Some Thoughts Michael Farrell Smith (formerly Mike Smith, and…
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70, 868 Acres
On the asphalt at the turnaround, we wrote in chalk, in the largest letters: Two homes, flume access Water resources 16,500 gallon pool Fire hose bibs at corners of house Three 1000 gallon tanks drawn from well When it may…
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