[Fiction] The Dreams of Birds
by Sam Moe What happens last is I leave. I know, I know I always leave. What no one ever asks is whether or not I was given a choice....
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Dec 15, 20236 min read
[Essay] How to Rescue a Skate
By L. Danzis If I close my eyes, I see your dock stretching into the White Oak River. It’s sunset, the last golden fingers of light...
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Dec 7, 20232 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Stephen Braile
ON PIER AVENUE Of the plunging surf breaking off the Pier Avenue shoreline, in this part of the beach, there is a severe undertow...
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Dec 5, 20232 min read
[Fiction] Hypoxia
by Jake Dean The wave lands a meter in front of her and she’s thankful the lip doesn’t detonate on her back or on her surfboard, which...
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Nov 30, 20232 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Patricia Furstenberg
Fishes Swam in Straight Lines In the beginning, the sky was tall and blue and quiet and no birds dared cross it. My hands lay quietly in...
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Nov 28, 20233 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Peter Kirn
ii. i can't even remember if in the dream we had made it out alive the language of the land we were in or whether there were others--...
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Nov 23, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Three Poems by Yuan Changming
Geophysical Circulation From the heart of The Northern Gyroscope Pumps out the blue blood of The Pacific With its spirit of peace,...
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Nov 21, 20237 min read
[Essay] Sea Change by Sarah Das Gupta
Huge breakers crashed as they hit the sand, breaking and spreading foam and froth over the beach like the freckled tongues of some...
Nov 18, 20231 min read
Kelp Journal Presents: Birth of the Endless Summer
On November 17th, 2023 Kelp Journal hosted directed Richard Yellend in Pacific Grove at a red carpet screening of his indie film, Birth...
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Nov 16, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Mark Murphy
The Inundation of Dreams The old man insists, the ocean will come back while his grandchildren are dreaming. While his sons prepare dawn...
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Nov 14, 20235 min read
[Photography] Interview with KJ Hannah Greenberg
[KELP JOURNAL] We have a lot to talk about, so let’s jump right in. I love these photos. They have such a mood about them. I think the...
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Nov 9, 202311 min read
[Interview] Nik Interviews Tod Goldberg - Gangsters Don't Die
Tod Goldberg is a New York Times bestselling author and a finalist for a ton of literary awards. He runs the best MFA program in the...
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Nov 9, 202313 min read
[Interview] Nik Interviews David L. Ulin - Thirteen Question Method
[Kelp Journal] Welcome to the show, David L. Ulin. You're the former book critic for the Los Angeles Times, a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow,...
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Nov 9, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Untitled
By Mykyta Ryzhykh Untitled We soared vapors of moisture up to the cloud Will we be able to return to earth? The white cat of my younger...
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Nov 7, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Robin Knight
Leviathan The whales came in, the whales went out, into the harbour and beyond. Wrecking the boardwalk with their thudding passage, they...
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Nov 2, 20232 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Martins Deep
A boy's plea to water This seascape— tinted with the yellow breath of the dying sun— spreads into a wiggling waistline of the sea...
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Oct 31, 20232 min read
[Book Review] "Family Style" by Thein Pham
Review by A.M. Larks Taste is an often underused sense in writing, but not so in Thien Pham’s new graphic memoir Family Style, where it...
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Oct 26, 20231 min read
[Poetry] All Belongings in One Suitcase
By Camille McCawley Camille McCawley is a UK based poet. Her debut pamphlet “An Odd Gift” was published by Bearded Badger Publishing in...
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Oct 24, 202310 min read
[Fiction] No One Owns the Sea
By Monica Igoe I went walking last night. Out past the yachts with silly names like Molly and Suaimhneas, and the one-man dinghies,...
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Oct 19, 20231 min read
[Poetry] Two Poems by Marek Kulig
Neptune A vineyard up the hill from Castelnuovo Berardenga in the Siena Province of Tuscany was once on the seafloor. The hand-sized...
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