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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…

holes in the curtain 1 & 2

holes in the curtain nothing knows how to begin, without a voice. a face like a gash in the windshield of the universe. rotating, rotating. we think we inhabit a sphere, something perfect, something close to…

One Thousand Women and the Way Home

i wanted to follow them, the women in white. i wanted the women & their billowing dresses to carve a path through the water, ghost- like silk clinging tight to their curves. by now, they perform the ritual of our…

Why Edward Kennedy was forgiven for the time he drove his oldsmobile into a pond

(after Richard Krech) The poppies that they gather only grow in blood soaked soil under dark mountain ranges. Every thing crumbles under the weight of these white washed walls and burned history books. No one remembers the call girl’s…

Mockingbird

#WalkUpNotOut invite that kid who sits alone to join your friends at the lunch table smile, say hi, break bread be kind. Kids can be for-real-mean nowadays I’m a teacher I know they’re good for all kinda shit-talkin and shenanigans…