Moriah Cohen
A native of New Jersey who travels less often she’d like, Moriah Cohen has a nomad’s heart, having visited Israel, Ireland, England, and Paris. She recently received her MFA from Rutgers-Newark University.
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- Postcard Prose
It’s Salty
By Kelly Hill
Trying to wrap my mind around living on a tropical island for thirteen years and never once seeing the ocean, I stumbled through my Indonesian vocabulary to say, It’s good. It’s big.
- Travel Notes
Screensaver
By Sandra Larson
A dinosaur dangles over my grandson at the Field Museum near a pink thumb that pops into the prom picture of my granddaughter dressed in strapless red leaving her house in Medina …
- Travel Notes
The Value of Small Money
By Megan Hallinan
The bill in question is actually a 2,000 West African franc note, and it’s the equivalent of about four U.S. dollars. A helpful sum, really, but as I clutch the weathered crinkle in my sweaty palm, its value feels as dirty as the grime that is undoubtedly being transferred to my fingers.
- Poetry
Two Poems by F. J. Williams
to Egg and Berry brewery, to the pack / of Czechy words I made but didn’t work / in this pink town. I’d readily go back / to your best spots, the unfired gun, that perk //
- Poetry
Imaginary Oceans
By Jason Warren
And if the neap tides of my beauty / sadden him, I cannot help it: / I hang high, the waxy night light …
- Poetry
Thessaloniki, Four AM
By Anastasia Vassos
Three thousand ancestors ask how I straddle / the sea, a foot on either shore. //
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