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[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...

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[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...

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[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,...

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[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...

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[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,...

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[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...

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[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 ...

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[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...

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[Fiction] Hope

By Rutger Middelburg I have always loved the sea. Loved everything about it; from the peacefully reflective mirror, making the light of...

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[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...

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[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,...

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[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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[Interview] with Cynthia Yatchman

[KELP JOURNAL] Before we dive into the work, I always like to ask our artists what their origin story is. How did you come to be an...

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[Poetry] The Perfect Jump

By Beata Stasak Fear prickling my feat try to ignore the pounding in my ears five meters beneath me the dark...

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[Book Review] Creatures by Crissy Van Meter

By A.M. Larks Creatures, the first novel by Crissy Van Meter, is like free diving in an ocean of relationships, where one holds their...

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[Poetry] Two Poems by Tatiana Retivov

3 May 2022 On Russia's Invasion of Ukraine It will go To the wrong Town. And Others insulated Their windows....

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[Fiction] Alive, Alive-O

By Thomas Canfield The shells were fashioned from silver. They were visible to a depth of perhaps twenty meters. Beyond that, it...

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[Poetry] Two Poems by Doug Jacquier

Pure escapism I’ll bet she’s the type that secretly reads door-stop Gothics and would go for a square cleft jaw and strong silence if she...

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[Essay] In Lieu Of A Final Term Paper You've Been Assigned This Open-Book Exam

By Katherine Plumhoff Carefully read the entire test before doing anything. In order to ensure the accuracy of this exam, you should...

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[Poetry] Two Poems by Nina Kossman

See How They Watch You See how they watch you: a neighbors’ dog lying supine at your feet, cats in every alley with a hungry look, a...

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