Creative Fire

Video: Alchemy and the Act of Creation

Jun 07, 2021

Video Comic Feature by James Notarianni

I can define my story by my art. I can define my art by my story.

Art and Comics, About Comics, Creative Fire | Read More

The Bones of Oak

Jun 07, 2021

Essay by Marie Alfonsi

I wonder if all living things need a self-portrait.

Memoir, Nature, Creative Fire | Read More

Crazy Quilt

Mar 30, 2021

Poetry by Madeleine Mysko

To make something from the desires both to hold and to be held.

Featured Poetry, Illness, Creative Fire | Read More

A Large Volume of Small Nonsenses

Mar 22, 2021

Essay by B. Tyler Lee

She grants me the ability to breathe underwater in this year of oceans.

Prose Poetry, Diversity, Creative Fire | Read More

Rough Water Delusions

Mar 22, 2021

Flash Nonfiction by Susan Terris

I frog-kick closer, desperate to recapture what has been lost.

Flash Nonfiction, Nature, Creative Fire | Read More

Inferno

Mar 22, 2021

Art Feature by Edward Michael Supranowicz

Art should speak for itself, and the artist should maintain a respectful distance and silence.

Graphic Arts, Creative Fire, Surrealism | Read More

A Little Something for the Effort

Mar 22, 2021

Essay by Therese Beale

I knew this was one of those micro-moments in a marriage when it pays to take a breath.

Writer's Life, Sex, Creative Fire | Read More

The Muse of Bad Poems

Mar 22, 2021

Poetry by Paula Bonnell

She says, “Just hum me a few bars” — as though you were the one in charge of this gig.

Writer's Life, Featured Poetry, Creative Fire | Read More

Floating and Rising in Federal Setting Level Four

Mar 22, 2021

Poetry by Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison

Sound like flesh warms the back of our necks, fills that space between vertebrae and skull.

Featured Poetry, Music, Creative Fire | Read More

Once I Was a Lighthouse

Mar 22, 2021

Poetry by Jacqueline Schaalje

All day I bundled my strength in my lantern room and shone.

Featured Poetry, Creative Fire, Surrealism | Read More

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