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WWPH WRITES ISSUE 107

WWPH Writes Issue 107…and we are excited to share: We now have a YouTube channel, which showcases a special program from our 50th anniversary event. We are still buzzing about this celebration held last month at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Take a look here at readings with Grace Cavalieri, E. Ethelbert Miller, Erika Raskin, Kathleen Wheaton, and poet-performing […]

WWPH Writes: Issue # 30

In May, we shouted out a special challenge: send us your Tiny Poem inspired by “Don’t Undersell Yourself” by Grace Cavalieri from our new edition of WHY I CANNOT TAKE A LOVER (see below for a special offer for this beautiful, collectible new edition!) We were delighted by the enormous response. Jona Colson and I […]

WWPH Writes: Issue # 13

Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #13 Admit this to everyone: I love the intensity of Leslie Pietrzyk’s fiction. Pair her story “Admit This To No One” with Serena Agusto-Cox’s equally as timely and exacting poem, “Thanksgiving,” and we have a blockbuster edition of WWPH Writes to share with […]

WWPH Writes: Issue # 12

Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #12 In this season of ghosts, WWPH Writes issue #12 spotlights poet Sid Gold, whose  Hebrew Home for the Aged is a tribute to his bedridden grandmother, like a dried fig, once a fiery Litvak seamstress hiding Anarchist pamphlets in pots. In Last […]

WWPH Writes: Issue # 11

Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #11 There’s a ferocity to the writing in WWPH Writes issue #11, which features the poet Lucinda Marshall and novelist Aliza Epstein. This line of Marshall’s poem, “Ebb Tide” has its own propulsion: “I wonder/ with a fierceness/what becomes of us,/of who we are/ […]

WWPH Writes: Issue # 10

Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #10 This issue features two works in fearless second-person, and I’m sure you will agree that, as Gregory Luce writes in his poem, “one carries the other.” The fiction piece, “Donated Evidence of a Relationship, Courtesy of a Recovering Hoarder,” by Delaney Burk […]