Mark’s Tumor (When I Needed it Most)
“How quickly this life does go by.” Tonight
I wrote the last letters
to my poetry students. It’s always been hard,
di...
On June 17, 2018, we hosted our first-ever Seattle-based event, which was a roundtable discussion about why the powers that be, are.
On June 17, 2018, we h...
On July 22, 2018, escape the city and join us for an afternoon and evening of art & words in the woods.
Taking place in front of the historic barn of A...
On May 15, Seventh Wave editor Brett Rawson sat alongside Steph Jagger to talk about memories and other things we forget.
This isn't the first time we have cha...
Version
by Mia Caruso
It tasted lemony, a smudge of sweet acid on the tip of her tongue, hot from the sun where it had been growing until the moment...
Please Don’t Make Me Repeat Myself
By Adam Polaski
“You have such a beautiful voice,” the director said guardedly. He sat rigidly on the sofa in my ...
On May 3rd, 2018, we teamed up with Rally Reading Series to host an evening of art & words centered around forces of opposition.
The Rally continued it...
Simmer
by Ken Brosky
When they come to see the stove, they inhale a simultaneous woosh, the kind of sound that only comes from air moving into the l...
Repentance
by Kayla Michelle Smith
One Friday each fall, Missionary Baptist girls from all over the state of Mississippi were excused from school to...
hit and run
Trees living in their skin-smell, Appalachia has no need of my white poet
blouse and ripped jeans. The world as I knew it, gone, white as cotton...
