Author: phoebejournal

Telling Our Stories

Interview Leslie Maxwell

Lisa Tracy's most recent book, Objects of Our Affection, is a work that combines history and memoir to tell the tale of objects that are part of...

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Honest Conversation: the state of online publishing

Blog Josh Ambrose

I watched for a bit, then got bored and exited the window.

Frankly, a lot of literary online publishing today strikes me as similarly problematic......

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fly three to four weeks after hatching. mercy.

Poetry y madrone

grown, they aren’t picky with food but hoard
scattered caches carefully. the sown ground.
plus tuck bills beneath feathers for later
......

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Another year, another all new chapter to Phoebe…

Blog Josh Ambrose

After a good bit of work, we're happy to introduce the new, improved, updated Phoebe website. It's much more than just design retooling--we're quite enthused to...

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life span in the wild exactly average. not year-round

Poetry y madrone

we are not this residence yet, but should be.
magpied twice as often minus abundance,
these ages openly passerine......

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The Burial Party

Fiction Andrew Bynom

On the morning of the cease-fire we set off to meet the Turkish delegation in the poppy field above the beach....I asked Ricky Rumbold why it took wounded...

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Before Fairbanks, Alaska

Nonfiction Patrick Barney

Home's a shed and wood-pile. Home is bones. It might travel with you, if you ask it to, but you rarely ever ask it to. Home is a dog you love because...

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Smoke Signals

Nonfiction Therese Halscheid

An exhale – an O let out, then another white ringlet, then others leaving the dark of your mouth, each a loop in front of you, growing increasingly...

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larch, o man I made

Poetry y madrone

I must unlatch this cold
constellation of two fish

as for me these kinds of dreams
for his way to moose I am armed
......

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once a decembered maytown [but the fallen quince leaves dear]

Poetry y madrone

birds can be everywhere at once northern
harrier all winter long guarding the plot of dormant
strawberries and asparagus......

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