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Not Far From Home, Serianna Pearson Apr 2017

Not Far From Home, Serianna Pearson

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I flew out of the San Francisco International Airport with a group of essential strangers to travel out of the country for the first time. After a bumpy ride fully-equipped with a lightning storm, we landed in Quito, Ecuador. I highly anticipated this trip, collecting handouts and attending group meetings, but I was somewhat confused when, standing in the customs line, I saw two pictures: one of San Francisco and one of Quito, with a slogan basically saying “Quito, the sister-city of San Francisco.” Apparently, I hadn’t traveled as far from home as I thought. ~excerpt from prose


Find Yourself By Looking In A New Place, Christopher Leeds Apr 2017

Find Yourself By Looking In A New Place, Christopher Leeds

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Making the choice to leave a very successful, established life in the corporate world and enter academia was an easy one for me. The opportunity to help students find some direction, to find a path to start their lives or change already established ones, was irresistible. ~excerpt from prose


Churros, Julia Van Der Ryn Apr 2017

Churros, Julia Van Der Ryn

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We are here in the middle of a country. At night I anchor myself to my husband as if we were surrounded by water instead of a flat, dry plane of land. I hook my foot around his ankle and breathe in dust and the smell of other people's kitchens. Frying foods fuel my dreams. ~excerpt from prose


A Mexican In Metropolis: Pensées Of A Summer Among Parisians, Carlos Rodriguez Apr 2017

A Mexican In Metropolis: Pensées Of A Summer Among Parisians, Carlos Rodriguez

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Aeroports Charles de Gaulle

How to get there from here. From San Rafael, take the airporter at the Transit Center. Get to SFO. And then take a plane to France. Fly into the night. Arrive the next day.~excerpt from prose


San Francisco, Amanda Martin Apr 2017

San Francisco, Amanda Martin

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I’m going back to dirty sidewalks

And twinkle-light trees

Whipped cream fog

On stacked, steep, streets ~excerpt from poem


London Colors, Mea Chavez Apr 2017

London Colors, Mea Chavez

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more green than you’d imagine

cream colored wealth

gray poverty

brick red intellectualism

red and green doors

tulips hidden under earth prolific

purple and pink

pubs wooden brown and black

gold pints and signs ~excerpt from poem


Finding Russel Square, Mea Chavez Apr 2017

Finding Russel Square, Mea Chavez

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Can’t find Russell Square

coming from the British Museum

as from a daze

lost in this brightness

amid streets I wish

were on a grid

I come across other squares

a children’s park ~excerpt from poem


Previous Engagement, Keara Teeter Apr 2017

Previous Engagement, Keara Teeter

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Cherokette, Keara Teeter Apr 2017

Cherokette, Keara Teeter

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Bkklm, Keara Teeter Apr 2017

Bkklm, Keara Teeter

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Img_0062, James Fish Apr 2017

Img_0062, James Fish

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Chinatown 052, Alexis Bailey Apr 2017

Chinatown 052, Alexis Bailey

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Chinatown 029, Alexis Bailey Apr 2017

Chinatown 029, Alexis Bailey

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016.Jpg, Josie Stipe Apr 2017

016.Jpg, Josie Stipe

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On The Back Of Notre Dame, Brittany Blake Apr 2017

On The Back Of Notre Dame, Brittany Blake

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Lost In Florence, Brittany Blake Apr 2017

Lost In Florence, Brittany Blake

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Inside The Vatican, Brittany Blake Apr 2017

Inside The Vatican, Brittany Blake

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Goddess, Brittany Blake Apr 2017

Goddess, Brittany Blake

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Ashland Creek, Or, Brittany Blake Apr 2017

Ashland Creek, Or, Brittany Blake

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Sleeping Ladies, Rachele Ketchem Apr 2017

Sleeping Ladies, Rachele Ketchem

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Out of nowhere a man jumped out of the bushes on the trail a little ahead of us. He was balding, tall, a 40 something year-old with spooky eyes. Christine knew damn well Kim and I were scaredy cats and began to quote a favorite old horror movie of ours,

“Barbara! He is coming to get you Barbara!”At that point, Kim and I were giving her the shut-the-fuck-up look as this creepy guy wearing camouflage in the dark was walking towards us. ~excerpt from prose


Crash And Burn, Ashton Guasco Apr 2017

Crash And Burn, Ashton Guasco

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My eyes open slowly as the paralyzing drugs begin to lose their hold over my body. I wake up alone and at first, I look around in fear; not knowing where I am. I begin to remember the terrifying events of the morning that led me to this place, this hospital recovery room at midnight. It had started as any other horse show day. ~excerpt from prose


The Need To Be Inspired, Jessica Curlett Apr 2017

The Need To Be Inspired, Jessica Curlett

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It is like opening my eyes for the first time as I step off the plane and new sights greet me like a warm breeze of air. This is the Golden State. The State people think of when “the land of opportunity” runs through one’s mind; home to both the red wood forests, and Tinsel town. ~excerpt from prose


Moon Love Valley, California, Megan Lynn Apr 2017

Moon Love Valley, California, Megan Lynn

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There is a valley north of San Francisco where the moon shines her love. Mountains stand tall and proud, rooted to the ground, protecting the valley floor. The North and East mountains are darker, the protectors. They are covered with tall, earthy green trees that, on grey mornings, fog tangles in on its way over the mountain crest, clearing just before noon. ~excerpt from prose


Creation Myth, Annabelle C. Maginnis Apr 2017

Creation Myth, Annabelle C. Maginnis

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There was nothing. Emptier and emptier still, chaos made its way between the gaps. Eventually, chaos spun itself into a figure of all capability. This figure was It. It was an androgynous watery conglomerate that grew tired of life alone, and curious about the nature of its own body. It tugged at its malleable sides and burst, creating a circular globe that It named Earth. ~excerpt from prose


It Happens Everywhere, Mariah Mcguire Apr 2017

It Happens Everywhere, Mariah Mcguire

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When did violence and hate become the norm? I can’t turn on the t.v, listen to the radio or turn a page without hearing about someone getting popped. Pop pop. All it takes is one shot, one stab one burst of anger to end a life. My friends, my classmates did they even see it coming? He wears that red bandana hanging out the back of his pocket with pride. ~excerpt from prose


The Eternal Torment, Benjamin Mages Apr 2017

The Eternal Torment, Benjamin Mages

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I sigh. How many days have I spent in this hellish torment? Has it been weeks? Months? Years? There’s no way to tell time in this prison of eternal twilight. Each cycle (as it is impossible to know if one of these is actually a day) seems a monotonous repeat of the previous. First, I wake up. I am surrounded in filthy and reeking dirt that covers the walls of my cell. I have a single roommate, Jorath. He’s a brute of a man, just as dirty and reeking as I am after all this time. ~excerpt from prose


California Bluffs, Katelin Filipps Apr 2017

California Bluffs, Katelin Filipps

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Inhale the salty, crisp air.
Fingers tracing lines through mist
Covered brined metal, despair,
If you’re ensnared, flung away ~excerpt from poem


An Untitled Pantoum, Allysa Miranda Apr 2017

An Untitled Pantoum, Allysa Miranda

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The woman walked down the lane
with barely a care,
letting the path lead her onwards,
wondering where she would go. ~excerpt from poem


The Line, Kaileigh Robinson Apr 2017

The Line, Kaileigh Robinson

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Do you see how low I can be?
Lower than the valley and bottom of the sea.
Last night I was on top of the world.
I had you in the palm of my hand.
You were the line I couldn’t understand. ~excerpt from poem


Scorned, Megan Lynn Apr 2017

Scorned, Megan Lynn

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I wove a barbed-wire basket
To carry my ex-lover's heart,
An evil remembrance of what you tore apart
Now all I need is to open his casket. ~excerpt from poem