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Art and Creativity
Stirring the Pot
Leading a strike, starting trouble between sisters, feeding strangers
January 2026
Become a Friend of The Sun
Putting this magazine together has remained a profoundly human endeavor, the work of many hands, even as the media landscape has become more automated.
December 2025Graffiti
A tag on a dumpster, poetry in an outhouse, Viking runes in an underground tomb
October 2025
Rude and Raw
If you were around then, you probably blinked and missed Rude and Raw. Not many people noticed when they came on the scene, and even fewer paid attention when they left. They weren’t easily categorized. They weren’t hard rock or power pop, and veered off several exits short of punk. They probably had people telling them they should be more of this or less of that, but if so, they didn’t heed any of it. They seemed caught in this never-ending state of becoming, trying to figure things out as they went, as strange and undefinable to themselves as they were to others.
October 2025
Thread
So, all right then: What was it like to be transformed into what I am now? I’ll tell you. It was like a sundering. A splitting. Icy lightning cleaved along my limbs. At the same time, my skin was turning fruit-rind tough, dully reflective like obsidian, and punctured by small hairs the size and strength of claws.
October 2025
Red Desert
Sometimes I think of my early years of living in the city, that watery phase of life when you don’t plan beyond the next week, or even the next day, and every new connection is imbued with promise.
September 2025
Manicure
What remains of their visit is memory, residue, / trickles of sand from our trip to the beach. / I confess, I like my bedazzled talons . . .
August 2025There, Here, Jazz
The first time I walked into our new old house, it was the light / that surprised me—how much of it fell through the four windows / facing south and landed wide across the floorboards . . .
August 2025Ode to Middle School Band
All shuffle into this stuffy / school gym to behold / the clumsy miracle of hands— / where to put them, how, when.
June 2025
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