1 Thomas was hungry. He had been hungry before, but this was different. During community college he dizzied himself with a restricted diet of instant noodles and peanut butter that did nothing but prevent the walls of his stomach from eating each other. College hunger was a rite of passage, and even a source of […]
Poetry: A Wake-Up Call
A Wake-Up Call by Milton Ehrlich I woke up this morning with the sight and scent of bouquets of red roses assembled on my chest. My sleeping wife was gone. An indentation of her body, was all that remained in bed. I searched all the rooms in our house without ever opening a door— and […]
Poetry: Coffee Shop Girl
Coffee Shop Girl by Christopher Linforth She looks over my poem and tells me to replace slugabed with a word the common people will understand. I can’t tell her it’s part of my style—she knows I’m all surface, that I carry a DVD about a Michael Jackson impersonator in my messenger bag, that I pretend […]
Podcast: Graphic Novels–Biography or It’s Like the Power of the Emoji!
Content: In this episode, guest Daniel Morbach discusses three biographical graphic novels while we listen intently and think about what anyone’s single story can truly mean in the vastness of time and space. Either that or we talk about emojis and Nazis and a world without math. Cast Hosted by Dean Karpowicz with Daniel Morbach, […]