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WWPH WRITES ISSUE 56 TINY POEMS SPECIAL EDITION II

  Welcome to WWPH WRITES 56… TINY POEMS Special August Edition II!  And if you are thinking of submitting to our 2024 manuscript contests in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction when the contest opens on September 1, please make sure you review our updated guidelines here, including our 50th Anniversary Fiction Award sponsored by Carol […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 55 TINY POEMS SPECIAL EDITION

  Welcome to WWPH WRITES 55… our BIG second annual TINY POEMS edition!  And if you are thinking of submitting to our 2024 manuscript contests in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction when the contest opens on September 1, please make sure you review our updated guidelines here, including our 50th Anniversary Fiction Award sponsored by […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 54

  Welcome to WWPH WRITES 54… We have two works to astound us with their precision, First Love: A Villanelle by David Bachner, and Mimosas at the Hotel Washington, flash fiction, set on a July night in DC, by Richard Peabody. And, we are eager to see your poetry of precision for our TINY POEM […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 48

      Welcome to WWPH Writes 48…We are celebrating the end of National Poetry Month with poetry by Sean Murphy and his bluesy, lyrical lines in DuBose Heyward’s Blues, and under our occasional interview feature, THE TOP FIVE, we have WWPH Fellow Lindsay Brown asking her five big questions of master poets Grace Cavalieri […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 47

      Welcome to WWPH Writes 47…Spring has sprung, and we offer creative works about blossoms, birds, and loves. Kathi Wolfe’s poem, Blossoms, connects the life of the narrator and beloved aunt while lamenting a lover lost. In Birdsong by Bari Lynn Hein, we witness a transformation—a lover turned into a bird, thinking of […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 46

      Welcome to WWPH Writes 46… In this issue, our writers do a deep dive into real-world issues of gun violence as well as life in DC for a twenty-something. In Chloe Yelena Miller’s vivid lament, Water Guns, a mother and son are playing on a hot summer day, and yet, play is […]

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 […]

WWPH Writes: Issue # 42

Welcome to WWPH Writes #42! Both of the works in this new issue grabbed us with their openings. In Things I Didn’t Know I Love the first line: “The tall stack of books, always staring me down” speaks in multitudes of truth to this writer, and the poem continues with a list of even more. […]