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Dec 5, 20241 min read
[Poetry] the architect of the water
By Ajise Vincent “she was free in her wildness. she was a wanderess, a drop of free water. she belonged to no man & to no city”...
Dec 3, 20241 min read
[Essay] Wise Words
By Wendy K. Mages I’m glad Barbara, my thesis advisor, prefers incandescent lamps to florescent lights. Her office is dimly lit; I can...
Nov 28, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Frank William Finney
Crab Trap (for Jackie Bastian) Sand in our sandals. Two sirens in tow. One warm summer evening. The stars all aglow. We paired...
Nov 26, 20244 min read
[Interview] with Kimberly Castelino
[KELP JOURNAL] Kimberly, I usually like to hear about how artists found their form. So, what is your origin story? How did you come to...
Nov 21, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Arabella Sarver
two oceans august. glimpses of life beyond the bridge. warmth dancing over burnt skin. a silver ring hangs in midair. garnets, pearls...
Nov 19, 20242 min read
[Book Review] On Shifting Shoals by Joanne Durham
By Carolyn Martin Joanne Durham’s entertaining and inspiring chapbook, On Shifting Shoals, epitomizes Wallace Stevens’ famous...
Nov 14, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by K.T. Mills
Fanfare The carpenter bees thriving in the eaves and the obliterating sun, the futility of a breeze, the roses with hooked thorns, the...
Nov 12, 20245 min read
[Fiction] Santee before the first of storms
By R. P. Singletary The gator submerged back into the muddy banks of the Santee , and I paddled my kayak east of the sand bars,...
Nov 7, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Three Poems by Glenis Moore
Sea dreaming When the sun beats down in Cambridge I long to see the sea, to taste the salt that's in the air, to paddle leisurely. To...
Nov 5, 20242 min read
[Essays] Coral on Their Bleaching
By Cypress Wilde Their appendages stretched out in front of me, white and prickly. It is getting much, much warmer here in the Florida...
Oct 31, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Christina Hennemann
Tidal Prophecy: Gezeitenwelle We don’t know the sea, you say, gazing from the sky-stretching pier. Bricks towering over rippled sand,...
Oct 29, 20243 min read
[Photography] Interview with John Repp
[KELP JOURNAL] Let’s jump right in: your bio says that you are a “folk photographer” and I don’t think I have ever heard that term. Can...
Oct 24, 20241 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Jennifer Lagier
Brandt’s Cormorants Ghoulish cormorants forage California Current, plunge forty feet below ocean waves, skewer their next silvery meal,...
Oct 22, 20244 min read
[Book Review] Buster: A Dog, by George Pelecanos
By Cierra Buchholz Buster: A Dog, by George Pelecanos, is an 88 page novella narrated by Buster, the family dog, that gives readers a...
Oct 17, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Judith Mikesch-McKenzie
Triolets - Seeking After Driftwood “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected on the deep.” - William James ...
Oct 16, 20241 min read
[DocuShort] Hericane Rowing and The World's Toughest Row Pacific
I first connected with Hericane Rowing leading into the World’s Toughest Row Pacific when I met with them to do an interview about their...
Oct 15, 20241 min read
[Fiction] Hope
By Rutger Middelburg I have always loved the sea. Loved everything about it; from the peacefully reflective mirror, making the light of...
Oct 10, 20241 min read
[Poetry] My Inner Fish Tiktaalik
By Ralph La Rosa My inner fish alerts me, when I’m peckish, that through eons I’d been a dish delish, to fish! That even now I nosh kin’s...
Oct 8, 20242 min read
[Essays] by Michael Theroux
Breakwater Against the wash of time and tide, great granite walls stretch out, away, cutting in two the incoming flow. Protecting,...
Oct 3, 20242 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Mina Moore
The Collector I once saw a lighthouse that pulled poems to the shore: sleek fishy poems that cut through the water like shooting stars,...
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