A Literary Magazine Sponsored by The University of Maine at Farmington
The River is a representation of the Sandy River itself, which runs alongside the university and what inspired the name of the journal. It is a constantly flowing, ebbing and surging, body of content filled with contemporary work. To submit to The River please visit our Submissions page to the left or e mail TheRiverEditors@gmail.com directly.
Jeffery Higgs
How much fish can a river hold? How many could it expel? With their dull gray pallor, frozen unseeing eyes and shredded spider web fins, they covered the entire shoreline. It was impossible to set down a foot without crushing innards that squirted out a putrid odor of death.
John Sweet
“as the doors of the church are
barricaded
as the fires are set”
For those who don’t know, RBG is a documentary about the life and work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Before seeing the movie I knew very little of the supreme court … Continue Reading Summer Movie Review: RGB
Diana Rosen
“I watch it curve
like a round-shoulder mourner
at the Wailing Wall,”
by Hannah Binder Point Blank Perspective is a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and … Continue Reading Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay, Watching Mom’s Famous Meatloaf Roll Away
Anne Whitehouse
“Then his eyes flew back again
and he plunged into his reading,
tossing over page after page.”
The movie that I watched for this week’s blog was The Rider, an independent film by director, Chloe Zhao. The film’s premise centers around a rodeo rider named Brady Blackburn, … Continue Reading Summer Movie Review: The Rider
Stephen O’Connor
“It was my last trip of that summer that I recall most vividly. I locked my bike to the sidewalk side of a guard rail on Route 126. After a ten-minute hike through the woods, I arrived at the site of Thoreau’s cabin, where I paid my homage and meditated for a while in silent reverence.”
About Photographer: Jim Zola is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina.
Point Blank Perspective is a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and one hundred percent … Continue Reading All They Are is Dust in the Wind
Terry Barr
“He had to be 70 if he was a day, but then I learned long ago that older Southern people often hide their aging, or have already aged beyond their years. Somewhere in there.”
Point Blank Perspective will be a blog addressing common places, events, and experiences that we encounter in life. These are described in a column-style with a blunt and one hundred … Continue Reading Fly the Friendly Skies
Warm weather has finally come to Maine and so have the new editors for The River! We are excited to start publishing new content and sharing our weekly blog posts. … Continue Reading The New Summer 2018 Editors
Kissing Spring By Thandiwe Andrade-Foster When Spring came and kissed me at my window, She called me come and play, She sang, come watch my golden fingers, My gilded curls, … Continue Reading Kissing Spring
The Thespian Thoughts blog posts are meant to be a college student’s point of view on various topics in the world of theater to educate all on what encompasses this … Continue Reading So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye…
Hello everyone, it’s Gail and Willy! As the semester is coming to a close and our time as River Editors ends, we thought we’d take some of the time we … Continue Reading Editor’s Picks! – A Summer Reading List