ArtsNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingPamphlet series
August 12, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”ATTENDING TO THE QUIET: A Reading of Gabriele Micozzi’s ‘Inventory of the Grandmothers Who Stayed’”
ArtsNon-fictionAcademic writing/ Close ReadingBook ReviewEssay, CraftLITERARY ARTSFEATUREDFeatured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/Explicationbook or article review or close readingPamphlet series
July 25, 2026
O:JA&L FREE PRESSES||HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library Pamphlet Series
Artsbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
May 21, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”SPEAKING THE OVERFULL WORLD:|A Close Reading of Bruce McRae’s Poem “All In”
Artsbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
April 20, 2026
HAL: Heuristic Algorithmic Library|Poetry: All forms & styles|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”The Burdens of Intimacy|A close reading of ‘Two Solitudes,’|a poem by Richard Widerkehr”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSEssay, PersonalCNF/MemoirAcademic writing/ Close Reading
August 28, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Mixed-form essay/memoir/vignette||James Joaquin Brewer|”Pilgrim Ways and Voices:|Bryars’ Tramp and Salinger’s Glasses”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
August 25, 2025
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||A Close Reading of Franz Kafka’s|”Up in the Gallery”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close Reading
August 15, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of Adrienne Fidelin Restored (2025)|by Anne Whitehouse”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close Reading
August 15, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction to 10,000 Words|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of Frida (2022)|by Anne Whitehouse”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationPersonal essay to 1000 wordsLITERARY ARTSFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
July 17, 2025
Flash Nonfiction|Craft Essay/Analysis/Explication||María DeGuzmán|SUBTLE MATERIALIZATIONS OF MEMORY
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
April 15, 2025
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||A Close Reading of W. Somerset Maugham’s|“The Appointment in Samarra“
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTS
February 17, 2025
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles|Haiku||Contributing Editor Ibrahim Nureni|”A Review of Adjei Agyei-Baah’s Scaring Crow”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
February 14, 2025
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Spencer Holst’s|’The Zebra Storyteller’”
Non-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
October 30, 2024
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Luisa Valenzuela’s|’Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye’”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
August 10, 2024
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|Gordon Lish’s “The Merry Chase'”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 27, 2024
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|Lorna Crozier’s ‘Another Bear Story'”
book or article review or close readingEvents/Projects/CollaborationsClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
December 16, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of ‘Yours’ by Mary Robison”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSPoetryBook Review
September 18, 2023
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry||Editor-at-Large Rachel Custer|”To Suffer None of It:|Lack and Gratitude in Disease of Kings”
Uncategorizedbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
June 27, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of|’THE TWO TAILS’ or ‘THE ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHER’|by Augusto Monterroso”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 24, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ryan Griffith’s ‘Thrill of Fire’”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
February 17, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Italo Calvino’s|’The Man Who Shouted Teresa'”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close Reading
January 7, 2023
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Richard Plant’s|’Flatland'”
Non-fictionbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSBook ReviewAcademic writing/ Close Reading
October 24, 2022
Prose Discourse: Nonfiction|Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Cutter Streeby|”A Review of ‘Ouafa and Thawra:|About a Lover from Tunisia’ by Arturo Desimone”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
September 12, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Robert Bly’s|’Warning to the Reader'”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 20, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Melinda McCamant’s|’Clamming Up’”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
April 27, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ron Carlson’s|’The Tablecloth of Turin'”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
February 13, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘Therapists'”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
January 3, 2022
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of A. M. Homes’s|’With One Wheel Gone Wrong'”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
November 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|”The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
October 21, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|Flash Discourse: A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lydia Davis’s ‘The Mice'”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
September 19, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Ursula Hegi’s ‘Doves'”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
May 22, 2021
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Madison Smartt Bell’s|’The Naked Lady'”
book or article review or close readingNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
December 5, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Brady Udall’s ‘The Wig’”
Non-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
October 23, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”List Stories: Lists of the Literary Kind”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
September 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|’Love Suicides'”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
July 27, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Augusto Monterroso’s|’The Eclipse’”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
June 29, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Bai Xiao-Yi’s|‘Explosion in the Parlor’”
Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
June 13, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Dino Buzzati’s ‘The Falling Girl'”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)LITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)
May 24, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Lon Otto’s Flash Fiction|’Love Poems'”
Fine ArtistsClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSPortfolio SpotlightPainting and DrawingSTUDIO ARTSPortfolio SpotlightOtherEssay, CraftNon-fiction
April 22, 2020
Contributing Editor Toti O’Brien|Art & Artists of Los Angeles|”Sheer Matter: The Art of Marina Moevs”
WritersClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Peter Meinke’s ‘The Cranes'”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Octavio Paz’s|’The Blue Bouquet’”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)
April 10, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Raymond Carver’s|’Popular Mechanics'”
WritersClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
February 22, 2020
Featured Writer Natalie Young|An Essay on Craft|”The Question of May Swenson”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionProse Discourse: Fiction Flash forms (to 1000 words)Flash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
February 21, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Charles Baudelaire’s|’To Each His Own Chimera'”
Writersbook or article review or close readingClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationNarrative poetryFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSNarrativeLyricPoetryEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fiction
January 26, 2020
Featured Writer Claudia Serea|An Essay on Craft|”So Sweet and So Cold:|Plums and Poems from Romania to New Jersey”
Spa-HaibunNon-fictionClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured ProjectFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSHaibunMixed FormsFlash Essay (to 1000 words)Essay, PersonalEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close Reading
January 21, 2020
Featured Series: Mixed Forms|Haibun||Contributing Editor Christine Taylor|”An Introduction to Haibun”
Featured ProjectClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWriters2017-18FEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Fielding Dawson’s ‘Vertical Fields'”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Heinrich Bőll’s ‘The Laugher’”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationWritersFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of John Updike’s ‘Pygmalion’”
Close Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured Project2019 archiveWritersFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Alice Walker’s ‘The Flowers'”
WritersClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 11, 2020
Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings|”A Close Reading of Milos Macourek’s ‘Jacob’s Chicken'”
WritersClose Reading/Analysis/ExplicationFeatured Project2019 archiveFEATUREDLITERARY ARTSEssay, CraftAcademic writing/ Close ReadingNon-fictionFlash Fiction (to 1,000 words)Fiction
January 10, 2020