WWPH Writes 80…continues our TINY ODES special issues. Plus, your Washington Writers’ Publishing House has a big September planned… We kick off our 50th-anniversary celebrations on Friday, September 13th at 6 pm People’s Books in Takoma Park with our co-founder Grace Cavalieri and more. Please RSVP below to join us. We have a joyful reading […]
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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. […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 38
Welcome to Issue 38 In this issue, we have a dichotomy of good and evil. The poem, “HIV Nightline” by Lane Falcon is about volunteering and “the spool of night unraveling.” Heartbreaking poetry. The trio of microfictions under the title “Bad People,” by Christie Chapman are also gems, the kind of tiny stories I love […]