Category: Non-Fiction

#16: Nonfiction by Rey Armenteros

THE NAMING OF TREES A word is a thing you fill with everything you know about it. Instead, however, a word that sounds familiar but that is actually unclear can shape-shift into something else, granting you the ability to substitute the meaning with almost anything that comes to mind. Instead of stopping to look it […]

#12: Nonfiction by Chelsey Clammer

WHEN SHE’S YOUR GMA When your grandma is who you call “G-ma.” When you’re seventeen and going through your first breakup and staying at Gma’s house and you’re sobbing to her about the split with your first love—a girl. When Gma says, “I don’t understand the whole lesbian thing, but I love you anyway.” When […]

#11: CarlaJean Valluzzi reviews Old New Worlds

OLD NEW WORLDS Review by CarlaJean Valluzzi In Old New Worlds (Green Place Press), Judith Krummeck weaves a seamless narrative that crosses generations, crosses oceans, and crosses cultures to arrive on the shore of a collective experience. Krummeck’s work illustrates a struggle shared not only between members of her own family, but common to many […]

#6: Non-Fiction by Deborah La Garbanza

DULCINEA My first cousin Sunny had gained weight, but the glamor was still there.  “Looks like a little pony,” my mother whispers in my ear. Pony as in fat Shetland was her euphemism for fat. No one in our family was a featherweight and the battle between voracious appetites and the scale was an ongoing […]

#3: Nonfiction by Ellie Zumbach

A LIGHT IN THE BARN And on the eighth day, God looked down on His planned paradise and said,“I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer. – Paul Harvey My father usually wakes up before the sky breaks in the morning. He watches the sun crack open over the hills like an egg, spilling […]

Cobalt Review: Issue 21

And now it’s time…to say… Well, it’s not really goodbye. It’s just the last standard issue of Cobalt Review. With the launch of the Cobalt Weekly comes the conclusion of the issues series that’s been rolling since 2011. Don’t worry, the Baseball Issue will live on. And we’ll keep bringing you books and books and […]