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Video: Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers

Using special FX, the director Meredith Moore surrounds her grandmother with explosions, rainbows, and sparkling lights as she shares her extensive collection of salt and pepper shakers.

June 14, 2025 · 4 Comments

Barbara Hamby: Ode to Red and Speedy

Who can remember all the selves stuffed into the miraculous
sack of skin?

November 8, 2024 · 15 Comments

Sally Bliumis-Dunn: Week One

She is fine like a ringlet of fiddlehead fern
before it unfurls in the summer forest

October 16, 2024 · 7 Comments

Alice Friman: Confidentially Pink

When I stepped down from the train
and he wasn’t there
I didn’t panic. I knew he’d come
for I had dressed in pink–

May 28, 2024 · 9 Comments

Sabine Oishi: Heart to Heart | The Grandmother Thing

Thanks to our grandchildren we have a future. We are their bridge back to the land of ‘before’. They are the road not yet traveled.

December 8, 2022 · 2 Comments

Glen Brown: Bubbie

I imagine her escaping Ukraine,
like a small bird 
breaking formation over unfamiliar terrain

March 24, 2022 · Leave a comment

Linda Parsons: Checkers with my Granddaughter

She’s not out for blood but, like her father,
a natural strategist and soon has me
in her grasp.

June 14, 2021 · 4 Comments

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: I’m Waiting

Waiting,
so, we can finally mend the pain of our broken
homelands, all the ruined places
of our being, oh Africa,
to mend our broken roads and broken minds.

March 24, 2021 · 7 Comments

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