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Writing in the Time of the Global Pandemic: Summer 2020
From Barrio to Coastal Bluff: In the Time of the Pandemic by Irene R. Baker
What You Have Made Us by Dev Berger
SPRINGTIME, COVID-19 by Diana Donovan
Pandemic by Diana Donovan
The Wonder Vacuum by Judy Field
We get along with oaks by Joe Cottonwood
post-its from a virus by Joe Cottonwood
Cat’s Eye or Love in the Time of Covid-19 by Susan Terris
NANA, JUST LIKE YOU TOLD ME, JONAH SAYS, I NAME WHITE THINGS TO KEEP THE VIRUS AWAY by Susan Terris
QUARANTINE OF THE HOTHOUSE ROSES by Leah Browning
Bunker at 3:00 a.m. (or, an optical illusion) by Kimberly Kralowec
The Wood Planks in the Back Deck Were the Size of Empty Streets by Kimberly Kralowec
AT-HOME AND FAR-AWAY (A Zoom Mosaic, Spring 2020) by Christie Cochrell
Standing at the End of Time by Sharon H. Smith
THE DOGWOOD by Susan Bloch-Welliver
Bird Watch by Deborah Meltvedt
Groceries by Deborah Meltvedt
Love in the Time of Covid by Jeanne Althouse
Covid-19 by June Jackson
Shelter-in-place by June Jackson
The Origin of Verse by Mark Dowie
Girl of the Sunflower by Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte
No Numbers Know By Larry C. Tolbert
Still Hunting by Kathryn Jordan
Wren by Kathryn Jordan
Ring by Kathryn Jordan
Pause by Angie Minkin
Free Food for Charles by Carol Park
Antidote to the News by Raphael Block
The Combination by Raphael Block
Her Unbroken Giving by Raphael Block
Love to the swimming body by Jan Haag
What Is Essential by Elizabeth Terzakis
Spring 2020 Issue
One of My Favorite Places on Earth by Caroline Smadja
Who Is This Love? by Laura Atkinson
The Moment by Mark Dowie
Not a Pretty Man by G.M. Monks
Joe’s Party by Angie Minkin
Only Then Do I See the Entrance by Angie Minkin
Airplanes by Joe Cottonwood
Brain Lab Beam On by Carol Harada
Lost Coast Writer’s Retreat by Susan Dambroff
A Hope or a Prayer by Susan Dambroff
Oh November, 2016 by Stephanie Noble
“And Forgive Us Our Trespasses…” By Arthur Carey
The Sweet Ship Hope by John Laue
Grover Hot Springs, #33 by Kathryn Jordan
The Hope Chest by Christie Cochrell
Let It Never End by Abby Caplin
Childhood Paradise by Daniel Raskin
Waking by Sharon Pretti
Full Moon in Santa Cruz by Nancy Huxtable Mohr
Flight by Nancy Huxtable Mohr
Home by Nancy Huxtable Mohr
Chess Lessons in Silicon Valley by Christine Welter
This Longest Night by Jan Haag
Bonus by Jan Haag
Spring 2019 Issue
Fallen Star by Jeanne Althouse
Agave by Kathryn Jordan
A Real Thing by Kathryn Jordan
That’s My Girl by Kathy Andrew
When We Understood by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell
How May We Be by Lynn Axelrod Mitchell
Ernie and the Small Pink Roses By Joyce Kiefer
California Cloudscapes by Jeanie Greensfelder
Forest Avenue by Christie B. Cochrell
What Mr. Smith Said to Mr. Jones at the IHOP in Emeryville by Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte
The Great White Chihuahua by Judy Field
Waiting for the Lazuli Bunting by Terri Glass
A Hot Girl with a Bad Attitude by Leah Browning
Kachina, a.k.a. Katsina by Kary Joseph Shender
A Good Boy by Tony Press
Autumn Colors by Judy Brackett
Lake Tahoe, June Afternoon by Judy Brackett
Electric Twilight by Rick Trushel
Red Tail Down by Colleen West
About Faith at Point Reyes by Colleen West
Fall 2018 Issue
Their House by Adina Sara
The Unbearable Music of Grief by Kaye Cleave
Wilderness by Joan Annsfire
Return to the Hot Spring by Joan Annsfire
Speciation by Leslie Beach
The Homecoming by Stephanie Noble
The Neighbor’s Account by Susan Terris
Broken/Open by Christopher P. DeLorenzo
Fear of Teaching by Susan Glass
The Friend Who Hardly Knew Me by Deborah La Garbanza
Delete, Save by Kathryn Jordan
Abuela’s Altar by Carol Griffin
Headlong by Carol Griffin
The Road Back by Sharon H. Smith
Meeting Light by Raphael Block
Firestorm by Nicole R. Zimmerman
Brewing by Carol Park
The Small Warmth by Christie B. Cochrell
Amandier en Fleurs by Christie B. Cochrell
When Mother Dies by Linda Enders
Forty-two by Andrew R. Touhy
A Dream by Andrew R. Touhy
Daddy Days by Andrew R. Touhy
Spring 2018 Issue
When Oscár Disappears by Jan Haag
New Years Eve in Carmel by Deborah Meltvedt
Muse by Tim Lane
Little Deaths by Joyce Roschinger
All Ours by Chris McClean
Woolenium by LeeAnn Bartolini
Postcard from the Closed Toy Store on Solano Avenue by Kathleen McClung
After the Fire by Stephanie Noble
The Window, a novel excerpt by Carol Harada
Free by Julie Nicholson
Be There Then by Mark Dowie
Olema by Christie B. Cochrell
Death and the Kitten by Wendy Warren
Sermon at Balch Creek by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn
Heart’s Desire by Sharon H. Smith
Warm Milk by Ryan Voelker
On the Peninsula by Krista Minard
Magnolia by Lee Rossi
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