Literary Journal Archives - Story Tapestries https://storytapestries.org/category/literary-journal/ Empower. Educate. Engage. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:16:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://storytapestries.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-ST-Favicon-32x32.png Literary Journal Archives - Story Tapestries https://storytapestries.org/category/literary-journal/ 32 32 KaNikki Jakarta https://storytapestries.org/kanikki-jakarta/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kanikki-jakarta Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:07:45 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34966 KaNikki Jakarta

AMERICA (LEFT OVER) It tastes like leftover Thanksgiving food stored in the fridge, unwrapped too many days after Thursday Gave my thanks on the day […]

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]]> LeeAnn McKinnon https://storytapestries.org/leeann-mckinnon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leeann-mckinnon Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:06:07 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34884 LeeAnn McKinnon

I Am a Butterfly I am a Black queer butterfly weakened by the loss of friends, opportunities, joy in America. I am a butterfly wondering […]

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]]> Susan Scheid https://storytapestries.org/susan-scheid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=susan-scheid Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:03:49 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34898 Susan Scheid

Collage Poem After Langston Hughes Who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the obsidian galaxy of resilience. There’s never been […]

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]]> Kim Roberts Meikle https://storytapestries.org/kim-roberts-meikle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kim-roberts-meikle Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:57:23 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34891 Kim Roberts Meikle

MAUSOLEUM A storehouse secures these frail lockets of muscle and tendon, prong and tumbler. Each hip is a bezel, each vertebra a charm, each charm […]

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]]> Connie Rinehart https://storytapestries.org/connie-rinehart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=connie-rinehart Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:54:57 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34871 Connie Rinehart

BROKEN America is a joker. Saying one thing, Doing another. Making crazy. Crazy in our heads, Crazy deep in our bones. America puts bandages Here, […]

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]]> Ray Mobley  https://storytapestries.org/ray-mobley/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ray-mobley Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:51:51 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34864 Ray Mobley 

Land of Contradictions  America is racism and egalitarianism, Domination and resistance, Control and freedom, Capitalism and community, Sexism and feminism, Heterosexism and same–gender loving, Poverty […]

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]]> Yemiya https://storytapestries.org/yemiya/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yemiya Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:46:34 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34793 Yemiya

Almost Finished Last year I was an incense Musky, floral, composed of rich plant material Resetting the ambiance of spaces Spiraled & waved in the […]

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]]> Soo-Jin Lee https://storytapestries.org/soo-jin-lee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soo-jin-lee Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:41:47 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34786 Soo-Jin Lee

Ode to My Family I am an old candy bar getting made again because I’m back en vogue again Wait- I was never en vogue […]

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]]> Ann-Marie Maloney https://storytapestries.org/ann-marie-maloney/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ann-marie-maloney Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:38:56 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34780 Ann-Marie Maloney

Wellness Is a Revolution Wellness is a revolution— not sold in Instagram squares or pastel yoga mats rolled tight, but the kind that trembles in […]

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]]> Walker Valdez  https://storytapestries.org/walker-valdez/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=walker-valdez Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:04:50 +0000 https://storytapestries.org/?p=34762 Walker Valdez 

I’ve Been Looking for Meaning in the Most Ordinary Things  I’m a poet performing poems for relevance. I’ve been looking for meaning in things perceived […]

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