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An Essential Guide To An Invisible Art: A Review Of The Invisible Art Of Literary Editing, Jennifer Pullen Apr 2024

An Essential Guide To An Invisible Art: A Review Of The Invisible Art Of Literary Editing, Jennifer Pullen

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Review of Bryan Furuness and Sarah Layden. The Invisible Art of Literary Editing. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 152 pages


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2024: Complete Issue Mar 2024

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2024: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2024 - Volume LXXV, Number 1 - Issue #257. Engines of Extremes: Stories of pushing beyond previous limits.


Appalachia Summer/Fall 2010: Complete Issue Mar 2024

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2010: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2010 - Volume LXI, Number 2 - issue #230. Hut, Two, Three, Four: What ignites the outdoor passion of the next generation?


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2010: Complete Issue Mar 2024

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2010: Complete Issue

Appalachia

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He Has Brushed Away The Stone, Myles Lynn Jan 2024

He Has Brushed Away The Stone, Myles Lynn

The Peregrine Review

Oh, creatures, hear the trumpet sounds, He has brushed away the stone!...


Metallopoesis, Nik Lego Jan 2024

Metallopoesis, Nik Lego

The Peregrine Review

Pray, do not fear The baleful kiss of fire And say no elegies For the half-melted stone For as I watch you bleed You bleed…


Prayer, Ana Sakore Jan 2024

Prayer, Ana Sakore

The Peregrine Review

Sometimes I push my piano down the wishing well ivory tinkles slicing its Adam’s apple which convulses so three-year-old sweets are swallowed…


They Say / I Say, Abby Smoker Jan 2024

They Say / I Say, Abby Smoker

The Peregrine Review

a sparrow chirps there are memories in the riverbed they used to be silver treasures now i scoop them to the surface to see them clearly and they don’t even gleam—…


The Great Literary Marriage: Why All Good Readers Are Also Writers, Olivia Reardon Jan 2024

The Great Literary Marriage: Why All Good Readers Are Also Writers, Olivia Reardon

The Peregrine Review

I once heard a fellow English major say, “I read because I want to; I write because I have to.” In this particular instance, the student was lamenting all the papers she had to write and explaining that writing is simply the chore she must do in order to study literature, her true passion, in college...


...Nicked Myself Shaving Last Night, Eleanor Mund Jan 2024

...Nicked Myself Shaving Last Night, Eleanor Mund

The Peregrine Review

a flickering light blinks above my phone screams midnight as I prop my leg up on a plastic white shelf I didn’t want to do this tonight because I’m lazy— or defiant— or something else— who knows…


Regrets, Tiffany Oponski Jan 2024

Regrets, Tiffany Oponski

The Peregrine Review

I stand in a green pasture filled with wildflowers. I am surrounded by my regrets, reminding me every hour. They lurk in the form of shadows…


Cherry Blossoms, Joseph Fan Jan 2024

Cherry Blossoms, Joseph Fan

The Peregrine Review

Look at the beautiful cherry blossoms…


Brownstown, Usa, Timothy Shea Jan 2024

Brownstown, Usa, Timothy Shea

The Peregrine Review

A mild October evening. Streaks of orange and blue accent the night sky and the distant rhythmic tapping of high school drums echo on the other side of town another iteration of a great American tradition— the local community parade!...


Decolonize, Montika Smith Jan 2024

Decolonize, Montika Smith

The Peregrine Review

I wrap my fingers around my locs Favorite strands adorned with gold I tuck my masterpiece into a bonnet For the night…


The End, Lauren Mock Jan 2024

The End, Lauren Mock

The Peregrine Review

When they told us the news—through CNN, phone alerts, front pages of magazines, and televised messages from celebrities like Chris Evans and Emma Watson—we didn’t believe a word they said...


Solitude, Evelyn Kelly Jan 2024

Solitude, Evelyn Kelly

The Peregrine Review

It is time to stop living like this is an interlude in some masterpiece—just a few pages to skim— momentary instrumental bars to endure before the harmonizing begins…


Soft Hands, Alessandra Lageorge Jan 2024

Soft Hands, Alessandra Lageorge

The Peregrine Review

I want my daughter to have soft hands. Hands that don’t know the labor that mine are so familiar with. Hands that don’t know the repeated action that my body responded to by giving me these calluses…


Lambs, Courtney Kehler Jan 2024

Lambs, Courtney Kehler

The Peregrine Review

If you haven’t seen a lamb pitching forward on ten-minute-old legs using all its strength to wobble in the hay, making the heroic effort to live as its mother licks placenta off its jet-black wool…


Lamb’S Ear, Micaiah Saldaña Jan 2024

Lamb’S Ear, Micaiah Saldaña

The Peregrine Review

Last summer, my boyfriend (now fiancé) took me to Hershey Gardens to see the roses. I’ve loved roses ever since I lived in a brick farmhouse with a rose garden, and upon seeing the many varieties of my favorite flower spread before me, I smiled as if meeting with old friends....


A Resolution, J.T. Crocenzi Jan 2024

A Resolution, J.T. Crocenzi

The Peregrine Review

I will not let the feeling go, a tether tied between two worlds, one of longing and one of gain….


Penelope’S Deception, Jolie Lloyd Jan 2024

Penelope’S Deception, Jolie Lloyd

The Peregrine Review

As she weaves—still unweaves— they wait with bated breath Has she reached the end—resigned? Shall we seek justice—yet?...


Forty-Four Minute Walk, Erin Goudie Jan 2024

Forty-Four Minute Walk, Erin Goudie

The Peregrine Review

it’s almost midnight but I’m standing alone on the shot put mound staring at mourning sky…


Babies Are All Cheese, Kara Graves Jan 2024

Babies Are All Cheese, Kara Graves

The Peregrine Review

Little Jerry coos in his mother’s arms, A little mozzarella ball nuzzled in a parent sandwich, He is a very plain and quiet child…


Un-Hormonal And Unknown, Sadie Mcfarland Jan 2024

Un-Hormonal And Unknown, Sadie Mcfarland

The Peregrine Review

Six weeks of age Hospital room So many questions, no answers So many chances Risks that need taken Doctors confused Parents not amused Six days spent in a hospital room…


Belief, William Stowman Jan 2024

Belief, William Stowman

The Peregrine Review

belief is knowledge that has been tucked in at night comforted reassured…


His Silent Dance With Thoughts, Connor Fleming Jan 2024

His Silent Dance With Thoughts, Connor Fleming

The Peregrine Review

In the hush of nothing, there, a quiet so profound, Thoughts flutter like petals, gently unbound. Questioning whispers, a mind's tender kiss, In the simplicity of silence, lies subtle bliss…


To Be Loved, To Beloved, Eleanor Mund Jan 2024

To Be Loved, To Beloved, Eleanor Mund

The Peregrine Review

your hands, soft and gentle as a careful creator’s smooth my frizzed curls from out of my glassy, unfocused eyes and your fingers, like the delicate brush of a demiurge trace the tracks of mascara down my cheeks without paying mind to the pools of ink forming under your nailbeds...


Remember, Abby Ng Jan 2024

Remember, Abby Ng

The Peregrine Review

How can I close my eyes And fathom How can I close my eyes And imagine The bodies The stench The cold The fear…


The Bleeding, Adahlee Schroeder Jan 2024

The Bleeding, Adahlee Schroeder

The Peregrine Review

Time and time again I am exposed My cap is taken My blood is spilled All for creation…


Eating The World, Alexandria Hay Jan 2024

Eating The World, Alexandria Hay

The Peregrine Review

I have so much to give to this world who will hold it all? My pain and grief so vast and grand that the cupped hands of all my generations could hold the spilling sadness…