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WWPH WRITES ISSUE 45

    Welcome to WWPH Writes 45… In this issue, we follow leaves. In Stephanie Lai’s poem Evergreen, the “leaves of autumn” remind the narrator of a past love. In Diana Elizabeth Clarke’s Flight of the Leaf, we follow a leaf as it touches a pianist, then is carried back by the wind. Both texts […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 44

  Welcome to WWPH Writes #44!   In this issue, our writers deal with the otherworldy in the ordinary. Acclaimed poet Natasha Sajé explores the act of immersion in a text. “I’m bundled in another mind,” begins the remarkable Reading, the first of her two poems that we share with you in this issue. First-time published […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 43

  Welcome to WWPH Writes #43! Welcome to our Valentine’s Day Issue! Think of love and the beloved—those with us and those gone. The poem, The Diamond Ocean of Jupiter by Matt Hohner, imagines a lover’s offering: “I would give you Jupiter’s aurora.” The beloved could be taken on “wings of time”—if only we were […]