Readings Archive
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"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. |
Alise Versella is a Pushcart nominated contributing writer for Rebelle Society whose work has been published widely. Her newest collection When Wolves Become Birds (Golden Dragonfly Press 2021) is available now. You can visit her at www.aliseversella.com
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Ashna Singh is a graduate student in the Rhetoric and Teaching Writing program at Stanislaus State, and she is aspiring to teach first-year composition at a two-year or four-year institution.
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"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. |
Dr. Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Composition and Communication at SUNY Cobleskill in Upstate New York. He has written multiple book reviews, encyclopedia entries, and essays for a variety of journals, magazines, and books since 2006. He loves to read, watch movies, read, travel, and read. https://greatbutunknownperformances.wordpress.com/
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Mikal Wix grew up in the American South, which seeded insights into many outlooks, including visions of a revenant from the closet. He has work in or forthcoming in The Jupiter Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Hyacinth Review, Roi Fainéant Press, Fiery Scribe Review, & others, and works as a science editor by day.
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"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. |
Claire Cortese was born and raised in rural New Hampshire. During her undergraduate studies, she received the Richard M. Ford Writing Award for Nonfiction, and the Frederick Hyde Hibberd ’88 Scholarship Award for Poetry from the University of New Hampshire. She received her M.A. in Creative Writing from Durham University. Her work has appeared in Not Deer Mag, Maya’s Micros of The Closed Eye Open, Grim and Gilded, and Wild Roof Journal.
Twitter handle: @ClaireLCortese
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Jeanette Smith is a freelance writer and editor based in Dallas, Texas. She shares her editing knowledge daily on LinkedIn, fortnightly in her newsletter, and occasionally in her Ask the Editor column for DIY MFA. Her work has been featured with Second Chance Lit, Jelly Bucket, Glassworks Flash Glass, and others. When not at her keyboard, you can find her scuba diving or posting pictures of her cats on Instagram (@JeanettetheWriter).
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"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.
