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St. Pete’s Writing Nooks

Whether you write short stories, poetry, memoir, young adult, fantasy, or work on your journal, finding a community to...

Poetica 2 January/February 2026

Malachi Sinlao By Malachi Sinlao Vermilion my self-portrait is an ‘X’ slashed upon the canvas with the most vibrant of reds. the empty space is...

Poetica 1 – January/February 2026

The Work of Holding On By Janet Blair We are camping in January. Scurrying away from the post-holiday silence of empty bedrooms. Borrowing,...

Poetica – November/December 2025 The Artisan Magazine

By John C. Carter Farmhouse on a Dirt Road Her ears, hearing him yell her name again as she stands there, half-way between the...

POETICA – By Marc J. Yacht

BLACK BOOTS MARCH Black boots march across the nation
Hands held high with straight stiff salute
Confusion and fear mark the mood
As...

Childrens Poetry Book – Michael Singleton

Kenwood Resident (St Pete) Michael SingletonPublishes Childrens Poetry Book POETRY PARTY: A Children’s Poetry Book with Developmental and Optimistic Life...

Abstraction

In the heart of the gallery, where silence echoed louder than whispers, hung an enigma crafted from colors that...

Poëtica By Stephen Lindow

Poem to Another Poem This poem reads itself by the light of itself.Speaks of itself in the fifth person. Believesin...

Horror Time Video Visit

Excerpt from Paul Wilborn’s novel, Florida Hustle. - Set in the world of cheap 1980s slasher films.In the opening...

POETICA

Ask Me for my Pronouns Ask mefor my pronouns?It’s what we dothese days. The questionbrings up a tangleof old yarn,thoughtsI never...

Three Book Stereo, My Rosy Periwinkle Remix

I’ve been crate digging again, not for records, not for books, not for green turtle steaks but for a...

Two Storms by Katherine Robinson

The stench of grief, loss and shock are everywhere permeating the area with smells of red tide and salt waterthat...

 Separating the Worry Above from the Worry Below

I live my signifying, unrhymed, in St. Petersburg, but I am writing this scrambled treatise in Tallahassee, the tall...

Poetry from Carlo DiOrio

Ambition My ambition is to work the words “Christ on a bike!” into a poem. But no doubt I will end up accomplishing...

Gianna Russo – Poetry

I've set my heart on a glimpse of you: Florida Golden Aster (Chrysopsis floridana) --- listed as endangered in 1986 You are...

The Painting

Like an icon for some minor but ardently worshiped deity, the painting stands behind a giant molcajete of guacamole, its colors splashier even than patrons usually expect from a Mexican restaurant, the painting, that is;...

THE APPRENTICE 

BOOK EXCERPT FOR THE ARTISAN MAGAZINE - From: Cigar City: Tales From a 1980s Creative Ghetto Fiction Gold Medal, Florida...

An Impressionistic Ode to Tombolo Books

Geographically, a tombolo is the sand bar and gravel that connects an island to the mainland or connects two...

“Florida Hustle” By Paul Wilborn

Paul Wilborn's new novel, Florida Hustle, is set in the world of cheap 1980s slasher films.  In the opening chapter,...
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