GastropodaFeb 243 minLifting Up the Log #6: "A Splitting Open" by Alaina ScaranoEditor's note: When I first read "A Splitting Open," I was five months pregnant with my first child. I published it about four months...
GastropodaOct 28, 20222 minLifting Up the Log #5: "moon jelly half evaporated on the sand" by Dylan DaviesEditor's note: "moon jelly..." is fueled by curiosity and imagination. What I love about it is what I love about many of the poems I love...
GastropodaSep 30, 20222 minLifting Up the Log #4: "Slugged" by Annie CowellEditor's note: To read "Slugged" is to experience a certain kind of obsession that is so specific it becomes universal--the hunt for that...
GastropodaAug 26, 20222 minLifting Up the Log #3: "As Fast as She Can" by Janna MillerEditor's note: I was drawn to this piece because of that opening paragraph - dreamy, flowing images counterbalanced with a cold, hard...
GastropodaJul 29, 20222 minLifting Up the Log #2: "Mapping beneath" by Rebecca DempseyEditor's note: The act of receiving Rebecca's responses to the following questions was, to borrow a line from the original poem, an act...
GastropodaJun 24, 20222 minLifting Up the Log #1: "Caterpillar" by Jean Velasco Editor's note: I was first drawn to this poem not because of the words themselves, but because of what the words were doing on the page....