Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. One More Story Kimberly Walters – 1996 So, Joe the Old Liar starts telling people I’m Fruity, and everywhere l go it’s double-takes and long glances and me, not knowing, I think maybe the world’s finally noticed my … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. The Shipman J. David McNees- Foothill College – 1990 The shipman reached forth to a beam on his virtue Swaying on steady feet which stand solid on hollow deck. His ship was of his soul, and like it … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. April 14, 1973 Deborah Coy – 1998 ”And stepping into something unknown and transparent, but all ten fingers stretched outward flesh extended as metal waiting for a magnet. “ from the Wedding Ring Dance Anne Sexton The day my … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Marlo of the Matanza Leeanna Torres – 2000 I stood, in the not so early morning, and cried for my Marlo. I watched them take him away while I stood in the cold kitchen, still dressed in my pajamas, … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Three-In-One to a Chinese Elm Lara Hill-University of New Mexico-1989 This poem is to be read three ways: down the left, down the right, and across as a whole. They say you’re a weed since you thrive tenacious as … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. The Incident Cyrus Martinez – 1998 Two Thursdays. ago, my friend Zach went out and bought a gun, a Chinese SKS assault rifle. On Monday of last week, Zach and I decided we would make a trip out to … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. A Kind of Skinning Nikko Harada – 1999 I wrote this essay as a response paper in Gordene CJ, Mackenzie and Shawn Hayward’s class, Transgendering the millennium: 50 Billion Galaxies of Gender. This is my answer to a comment … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Sakura Siandra Hoepfner- Pima Community College – 1990 At the height of its beauty, a Japanese cherry blossom, the sakura, plump and full of color, gives up its anchor on the tree. With passion and perfect grace, it lets … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Point of Impact Scott Lindsey – 1996 Mark Davis thumps the top of the steering wheel with both hands as the big rig barrels down the asphalt center of the tunnel his high beams carve in the Arizona … Read More
Throwback Thursdays! We’re bringing back some of our favorite pieces from the last 30 years of Scribendi. Yesterday Gone Nicholas A Donato – University of New Mexico – 1992 The steady whirring of Red’s snow tires wound down as Peter slowed to take the Camuel exit from I-40 onto eastbound Route 66. Nor too many years … Read More