Readings Archive
"All I Hold In My Hands"
By Alise Versella Alise's poem can be found in Penumbra's Spring 2020 edition, on page 58. |
"BCE, CE, & Before I Knew"
By Ashna Singh Ashna's poem can be found in Penumbra Online's Summer 2021 edition, in the poetry section. |
"The Last Days of Vacation"
By Lisa Rhodes-RYABCHICH You can read Lisa's poem in Penumbra Online's Summer 2021 edition and read more about Lisa underneath her video. Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich is an adjunct poetry/screenwriting professor at Westchester Community College. She has two poetry chapbooks “We Are Beautiful Like Snowflakes” & “Opening the Black Ovule Gate” and forthcoming in 2021 is a full-length collection of poems "Breaking Out of the Cocoon" all from http://www.finishinglinepress.com. Another full-length poetry book "Peripeteia" was published in 2020 and a third full-length collection "How You Get to There" was published in 2021 both from CyberWit.net. She has a MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her website is http://www.lisarhodesryabchich poetryblog.wordpress.com
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"Ontological Fracture"
By Katarina Xóchitl Vargas Katarina's poem can be found in our Summer 2021 edition of Penumbra Online, in the poetry section. Katarina Xóchitl Vargas was raised in Mexico City. She and her family moved to Southern California when she was 13, where she began composing poems to process alienation. A dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, Xóchitl views her writing as an act of resistance against colonialism. Her poetry first appeared in Somos en escrito, The Acentos Review and Cloud Women's Quarterly Journal.
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"Personal Effects, by Robert Jensen"'
by Douglas C. MacLeod Read Douglas's book review in Penumbra Online's Fall 2021 journal edition. |
"Staying Above the Wreck"
by Mikal Wix Read Mikal's poem on page 22 of the Spring 2022 print edition of Penumbra. |
"The Depths"
by Claire Cortese Read Claire's poem on page 36 of the Spring 2022 print edition of Penumbra. |
"Thirteen O'clock"
by Jeanette Smith Read Jeanette's piece on page 58 of the Spring 2022 print edition of Penumbra. |
"How I Came to Hold the Faerie Close to My Heart"
by Peter Henrich
by Peter Henrich

Peter Henrich focuses his craft on children’s stories, flash fiction, and poetry. Penumbra's publication of "How I Came to Hold the Faerie Close to My Heart" is his debut as a writer. He is a Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition Honorable Mention recipient for flash fiction. His work also appears in Vanish in Poetry from Wingless Dreamer. He lives near Seattle, Washington where he dreams of becoming a pirate.