Poetry Reader & Assistant Jane Carlton makes 5 unique, summer-ready suggestions for taming the procrastination monster and getting your writing done.
I was going to write this post last week, but I kept putting it off. [...]
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Editors has written 184 articles so far, you can find them below.
Poetry
A Girl and Her Prom
By Margo Valentine
White pasty legs in the larkspur //
near the bridge with the broken gaps, //
that kiss underneath //
the gray and the navy brick, //
where sunlight streams through. [...]
Fiction
Iman in Iran
By high school senior, Amir Tamimi
The Pakro family lived on Nejat Street, among a small community of veterans from the Iran-Iraq War. The father, Omid Pakro, had lost both of his legs under a tank in Khoramshahr, near the border. That was not the worst part. The tank belonged to the Islamic Republic, his own side. Tragic blunder. [...]
Poetry
Wet Socks, Ode to the Pen, What Poetry Doesn’t Know
By Wheeler School junior Rebecca Greenberg
The air is humid and cold and saturates the trees, //
Drapes our shoulders, //
Rests over the sky like a glass lens. [...]
Fiction
Orleans: Carnivale
Sherri tells YARN that “Carnivale” takes place approximately nine months before the start of “Orleans” and gives a glimpse into the world of the heroine, Fen de la Guerre, and her chieftain, Lydia, before their world is turned upside down.
[...] You might find this hard to believe, Fen, but I was a grown woman before we met.” [...]
Poetry
Piñata, The Consolation of Clouds, and A Tougher Crust
In a recurring dream, //
I turn in circles, //
a red cloth blocking my eyes. //
There is a stick in my hand, //
and a treasure filled with candy //
dangles just above my head. [...]
Poetry
The Science of Teenage Love, A Broken-Hearted Friend, Requiem, The Morning after Halloween
By Erik DeLapp
How impolite to cry “broken heart!” //
when paranasal sinuses excrete //
mucus, and tears swell and drip //
from your lacrimal apparatus [...]
Fiction
700 Years in Heaven
By John Cusick
In school they tell you time is an illusion, but the profs over-complicate it if you ask me. There’s no such thing as before and after, just a big mash of now. “Time” is something our brains make up to help us get from point A to point B. Like the long path up to Stacy Adams’ house. [...]
Fiction
Sonic Boom
From seventeen-year-old Chinese-Indonesian writer Christie Suyanto:
I shared a drink with a stranger one April.
It took me three seconds to find out that her name was Jet Roscoe. Another three to realize that she’s exactly the type of person my parents warned me about. [...]
Blog
2013: Whew!
Kerri gives you the low-down on what’s been happening at YARN since 2012, and makes a promise to reconnect with her own writing.
[...] I’ve backburnered my own writing during this time of flux—and that has to stop! It’s making me cranky. So, like all of you whose 2013 might finally be settling down, I want to get back to that novel, pronto. [...]
Poetry
The Platonic Angst-Filled Love Poem, & I Was Told To
By Brian Will
We are Not a couple, //
and I regret to inform you, //
we Never will be. //
//
Let me break this down for you, //
in the words of the late, great, Merriam Webster: //
[...]
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