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Wild Mountain Thyme – Liam Clancy Picture, if you will, the mountains. Picture them tall and snow-capped, with grass adorning the crags and spurs of stone, and perhaps a stream … Continue Reading Around the Blooming Heather
The River’s bi-annual contest is back! This time as the Word Challenge contest! This semester, we’re asking you to produce a piece of writing that includes three specific words: Empathic, … Continue Reading It’s Time For A Contest!
By Gwen Lombard WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW The Judgment Day’s Finn Bálor and Damien Priest opened the show this week and were quickly interrupted by Cody Rhodes this time, telling … Continue Reading This Week In Wrestling: Plotting, Brawling, And The Ever Expanding MJF-verse
Ohio – Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young On May 4th, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired live ammunition into fleeing student protestors and killed four people. All students. Two of … Continue Reading Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming
By Gwen Lombard WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW The show opened this week with Sami Zayn experiencing mixed emotions about his tag team partner and best friend Kevin Owens being traded … Continue Reading This Week In Wrestling: Brutality, Beginnings, And AEW’s Battle of the Belts VIII
I apologize for the lateness of this post. My day-to-day work has been hellacious. Kingfish – Randy Newman There once were a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans. Back when … Continue Reading Every Man a King
By Gwen Lombard WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW Seth Rollins opened this week’s show by assuring that, despite his bad back getting even worse during the Last Man Standing match he … Continue Reading This Week In Wrestling: New Challengers To Face And The Constant Struggle Of Maintaining Friendships
Written By Basudev Sunani, Translated to English by Pitambar Naik WHEN DID I KILL A MAN? Once I asked a policeman well, you killed that man shooting in the chest … Continue Reading “When Did I Kill A Man?”, “Hate”, “By Any Chance He Freed”, “Mother Never Dies” and “Who Is Truly My Own?”
By Michael Moreth Coherence Desirably Enticed About the Artist: Michael Moreth is a recovering Chicagoan living in the rural, micropolitan City of Sterling, the Paris of Northwest Illinois.
By Jeff Shalom Reading with a Pen I would walk through your poem but your poem is the gray uncertain curtains cloaking each phrase mined on each axis spitting words … Continue Reading “Reading with a Pen”, “Awakening”, and “Indifference”
By Charlie Brice On Mother’s Day a Facebook friend asked, “What memory first comes to mind about your grandmother?” I wish I would have remembered the lilac fragrance that perfumed … Continue Reading Grandma
By John Paul Caponigro Duck Transported aerially the cockatrice’s egg arrived x-rayed. What was laid on a racehorse farm in Kentucky was brooded by a little river, nestled at the … Continue Reading “Duck” and “Quiet”
Spring comes with its promise of squalls,
and an old man, son of a son of a Kiowa,
stands on a starlit mesa—listens
for a muffled lament in deep gorges.
Down in the Mall – Warren Zevon I’m going to make a holiday shopping list. What to buy, what to buy… I need to get a new jacket. For me. … Continue Reading Buying Some Of That
By Gwen Lombard WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW The show opened with Shayna Baszler making her entrance, on her way to have a match against Nia Jax. However, Nia attacked her … Continue Reading This Week In Wrestling: Tense Alliances, Wasted Friendships, And WWE’s Fastlane PPV
Oh Death – Dock Boggs There is a wooly bear lying flattened in the dirt of the driveway. The poor little caterpillar is completely pancaked by some errant driver, some … Continue Reading Could You Call Some Other Day?