When they forced our neighborhood into coordinated retreat, my dad and I started stealing contact lenses. We didn’t like our eye doctor,...

revolutionized human life and marine death. A seahorse suffocates in a sandwich bag.   engulf the ocean with five trillion tons, equaling...

By Sarah Denison Shortly after the 2024 election, I, like so many other disappointed women, picked up the 2022 reprint edition of  I Who...

between me and the present moment I wear a thin, doubting armor which the sea dissolves and washes away   water is constant arrival      ...

[KELP JOURNAL] Jose, your installations are eye-catching. I love how you have designed them all to be semi-to-fully transparent, that we...

By Patricia Gimer     It was a calm, sunny day for the Polar Bear Dip, but the air was bone chilling. The starting gun exploded and Anne...

It’s all here. Swollen whale tongue, sandcaked and sunripe, split open with estuary blessing to sweet rot   Chewing on philosophy at the...

America happens to me. It happens when other places don’t. There’s magic. You need to look at the neon cords of traffic from a hotel up...

is what anchors marine vegetation instead of roots for drawing nutrients if this were soil instead of sand, keeps it   from drifting into...

[KELP JOURNAL] At first, Mandy, I thought that these were regular photographs but they are not. It looks like you’ve softened the edges...

By Sophie Hermann My weary arms ached as I hammered in the final nail. There wasn’t much I could do for the ruined fence, but my sorry...

Snowed   The snow fills me like an IV needle, and there is a snowstorm in my brain. Snow is falling today. It's overwhelming, like my...

By A.M. Larks   It was only fitting that the best time in my schedule to see Theatreworks’ production of “Happy Pleasant Valley: A Senior...

Sea lions sound the cave walls, sound the waves beating against the cave entrance, sound the fissures and holes the waves make,   shaped...

[KELP JOURNAL] Let’s dive right in, Srishty! You and I chose these photographs because they share a theme: journey. Each photo takes the...

By Rachel Schmidt   Our fifteenth birthdays have all been marked by the first trip to the surface. Donning braids woven with sea glass...

Women whose hair never gets wet convene like broken shells do at the edge of waves   They assemble in beach chairs like ancestors sat...

By Sean Stiny   * THIRD PLACE WINNER ANIMAL ESSAY CONTEST *   Trigger warning: Image of Dead Animal There's a gray fox in my black...

I walked the beach at sunrise and watched humans  chatting with their dogs who like any child of any age ran headlong toward the surf to...

[KELP JOURNAL] Hassan, I know we are here to talk about art and how life is influenced by art and art life, but  as a former athlete, I...