Open Space Archive
Open Space
Archive
2015
Poetry | Andrea Potos
Throwback Thursday featuring "Each Self" from issue 289.2
Throwback Thursday featuring "Each Self" from issue 289.2
No Genre | Laurie Frankel
I Can’t Quit You Mr. Starbucks Baby
I Can’t Quit You Mr. Starbucks Baby
No Genre | Brian Fitch
At Home in the Pauses
At Home in the Pauses
No Genre | Wes Ward
Why We Need Description
Why We Need Description
No Genre | Alexander Rose
Merry Christmas! Flashback Friday featuring "Christmas Story" from issue 284.6
Merry Christmas! Flashback Friday featuring "Christmas Story" from issue 284.6
No Genre | Avis D. Carlson
Merry Christmas Eve! Throwback Thursday featuring "Our Barbaric Christmas"
Merry Christmas Eve! Throwback Thursday featuring "Our Barbaric Christmas"
No Genre | Michael Kriesel
Writing an Aleister Crowley lipogram from issue 300.2
Writing an Aleister Crowley lipogram from issue 300.2
No Genre | Holly Karapetkova
Should White Poets Write About Race?
Should White Poets Write About Race?
No Genre | Ted Morrissey
Professor Tolkien’s Rebel Readings of Beowulf
Professor Tolkien’s Rebel Readings of Beowulf
No Genre | Heid Erdrich
Native American Pen Names
Native American Pen Names
Poetry | Bradford Tice
Between the Personal and Political: Writing the Stories of Gay Liberation
Between the Personal and Political: Writing the Stories of Gay Liberation
No Genre | Eric Barnes
Why I Do This
Why I Do This
No Genre | Nick Kolakowski
"The Wait" from issue 300.2
"The Wait" from issue 300.2
No Genre | Writing towards the Light: “The Cop, the Hooker and the Ridealong” Flashback Friday Featuring Julie Brickman From Issue 294. 5
Writing towards the Light: “The Cop, the Hooker and the Ridealong” Flashback Friday Featuring Julie Brickman From Issue 294. 5
Writing towards the Light: “The Cop, the Hooker and the Ridealong” Flashback Friday Featuring Julie Brickman From Issue 294. 5
No Genre | David Harris Ebenbach
We’re the People Who Move: The Poetry of Rootlessness
We’re the People Who Move: The Poetry of Rootlessness
Poetry | Amy Glynn
Crack
Crack
No Genre | Brian Fitch
Art and Oil
Art and Oil
Poetry | Necessity breeds invention! Flashback Friday Featuring Devi Sen Laskar From Issue 294.2
Necessity breeds invention! Flashback Friday Featuring Devi Sen Laskar From Issue 294.2
Necessity breeds invention! Flashback Friday Featuring Devi Sen Laskar From Issue 294.2
No Genre | "The Western Lonesome Society, where the old West Meets Magic Realism" Throwback Thursday Featuring Robert Garner McBrearty from issue 291.6
"The Western Lonesome Society, where the old West Meets Magic Realism" Throwback Thursday Featuring Robert Garner McBrearty from issue 291.6
"The Western Lonesome Society, where the old West Meets Magic Realism" Throwback Thursday Featuring Robert Garner McBrearty from issue 291.6
Poetry | Lauren Hilger
Workers of the Real Estate Wealth Expo
Workers of the Real Estate Wealth Expo
No Genre | Brian Patrick Heston
Concerning "Man in Flower" from issue 300.2
Concerning "Man in Flower" from issue 300.2
No Genre | BJ Hollars
Speak, Dog, Speak
Speak, Dog, Speak
No Genre | Flashback Friday Featuring Amanda Chan, Illustration from Issue 292.2
Flashback Friday Featuring Amanda Chan, Illustration from Issue 292.2
Flashback Friday Featuring Amanda Chan, Illustration from Issue 292.2
No Genre | Throwback Thursday Featuring Steve Fayer, "Sea Dogs" Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday Featuring Steve Fayer, "Sea Dogs" Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday Featuring Steve Fayer, "Sea Dogs" Issue 292.2
No Genre | Ray Werner
Longitudinal Relevance of the North American Review
Longitudinal Relevance of the North American Review
No Genre | Michael Kriesel
The Sailor, the Witch, and the Faggot From Issue 293.2
The Sailor, the Witch, and the Faggot From Issue 293.2
No Genre | Richard K. Weems
Revision in Writing and Music
Revision in Writing and Music
No Genre | Warren Slesinger
My Own Definition
My Own Definition
No Genre | Richard Levine
Throwback Thursday Featuring, "Convoys" Issue 297.4
Throwback Thursday Featuring, "Convoys" Issue 297.4
No Genre | Faith Shearin
Throwback Thursday, "Smoke" Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday, "Smoke" Issue 292.2
No Genre | Jennifer Kircher Carr
My Unapologetic Ode to Melodrama
My Unapologetic Ode to Melodrama
Poetry | Throwback Thursday Featuring Rebecca Foust, "Strip Mine" from Vol. 292.2
Throwback Thursday Featuring Rebecca Foust, "Strip Mine" from Vol. 292.2
Throwback Thursday Featuring Rebecca Foust, "Strip Mine" from Vol. 292.2
No Genre | Corie Sutton Adjmi
FEAR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
FEAR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Poetry | Throwback Thursday Featuring, Susan Elbe, "Some Music" Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday Featuring, Susan Elbe, "Some Music" Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday Featuring, Susan Elbe, "Some Music" Issue 292.2
Interview | Grant Tracey
Final Stanzas from 12 Winters Blog: Interview with Grant Tracey
Final Stanzas from 12 Winters Blog: Interview with Grant Tracey
No Genre | Kimberly Groninga
Flashback Friday, "The Story of Love and Goodbye"
Flashback Friday, "The Story of Love and Goodbye"
No Genre | Kevin Stein
Throwback Thursday '(My) History of Parsley" Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday '(My) History of Parsley" Issue 292.2
No Genre | Anthony Frame
Some Thoughts on Grief, Sentimentality, and "Faith," from Issue 297.4
Some Thoughts on Grief, Sentimentality, and "Faith," from Issue 297.4
Poetry | Lucinda Roy
Portraits, Landscapes, and Poetry
Portraits, Landscapes, and Poetry
Poetry | Flashback Friday Featuring Kelli Russell Agodon, "If You Awake After I've Gone" Issue 292.2
Flashback Friday Featuring Kelli Russell Agodon, "If You Awake After I've Gone" Issue 292.2
Flashback Friday Featuring Kelli Russell Agodon, "If You Awake After I've Gone" Issue 292.2
No Genre | Simon Holloway
Notes on "Borders"
Notes on "Borders"
Poetry | Notes on "Across The Lake Of Clouds" from J.P. Dancing Bear
Notes on "Across The Lake Of Clouds" from J.P. Dancing Bear
Notes on "Across The Lake Of Clouds" from J.P. Dancing Bear
No Genre | Michael Kriesel
The Last Alchemist
The Last Alchemist
No Genre | Gary Clift
Notes on "I was shot by someone in a grey sedan"
Notes on "I was shot by someone in a grey sedan"
No Genre | Throwback Thursday featuring Harry Brod, "Democracy vs. Plutocracy" Redux Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Harry Brod, "Democracy vs. Plutocracy" Redux Issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Harry Brod, "Democracy vs. Plutocracy" Redux Issue 292.2
Poetry | Joe Wilkins
On Living and Writing "Complaint with Parking Lot Vegetable Stand & Child's Cry"
On Living and Writing "Complaint with Parking Lot Vegetable Stand & Child's Cry"
No Genre | Jim McGarrah
Feng Shui in the Mind
Feng Shui in the Mind
Poetry | Jack Cooper
PUNCTUATION IN POETRY
PUNCTUATION IN POETRY
Poetry | Christina Seymour
"Prosody and Being Equal to Life" from Issue 299.4
"Prosody and Being Equal to Life" from Issue 299.4
Poetry | Throwback Thursday featuring Michael Kriesel from issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Michael Kriesel from issue 292.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Michael Kriesel from issue 292.2
Poetry | Colette Inez
Movieverse
Movieverse
No Genre | Jeanne Sirotkin
Stomp Kicking Our Way to Heaven from issue 299.3
Stomp Kicking Our Way to Heaven from issue 299.3
Poetry | Jeff Gundy
Notes on "Brief History of Midwestern Civilzation"
Notes on "Brief History of Midwestern Civilzation"
Poetry | Flashback Friday Featuring Jeanne Emmons with "Polio Water in 1955" from issue 291.2
Flashback Friday Featuring Jeanne Emmons with "Polio Water in 1955" from issue 291.2
Flashback Friday Featuring Jeanne Emmons with "Polio Water in 1955" from issue 291.2
No Genre | John Guzlowski
Writing is an Incremental Art
Writing is an Incremental Art
No Genre | Michael Spence
A NARROWLY GLOBAL REPUTATION
A NARROWLY GLOBAL REPUTATION
No Genre | Thomas Fox Averill
Literary Afterlives
Literary Afterlives
No Genre | Martha Silano
A Room of One's Own?
A Room of One's Own?
Poetry | Chad Davidson
Notes on "The Allure of Churches" from issue 299.3
Notes on "The Allure of Churches" from issue 299.3
Poetry | Throwback Thursday featuring Dilruba Ahmed from issue 291.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Dilruba Ahmed from issue 291.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Dilruba Ahmed from issue 291.2
Poetry | Robin Richardson
The Unsympathetic Voice In Poetry; Courage, Clarity, Truth, Uncertainty
The Unsympathetic Voice In Poetry; Courage, Clarity, Truth, Uncertainty
No Genre | Tess Barry
Madwomen in the Attic: Engendering Voice
Madwomen in the Attic: Engendering Voice
No Genre | John Smelcer
How to Use a Frying Pan to Improve Your Writing
How to Use a Frying Pan to Improve Your Writing
Poetry | Throwback Thursday featuring Mariette Landry from issue 291.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Mariette Landry from issue 291.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Mariette Landry from issue 291.2
Poetry | Peter Ludwin
Notes on "Picture of an Indian Girl, Chiapas" from issue 300.3
Notes on "Picture of an Indian Girl, Chiapas" from issue 300.3
No Genre | Steven Schwartz
"The Backest Backstory" from issue 300.03
"The Backest Backstory" from issue 300.03
Poetry | Jessica Morey-Collins
Savior Complected: Honoring Other Voices, Using My Own
Savior Complected: Honoring Other Voices, Using My Own
No Genre | Woodrow Wilson
The Author and Signers of the Declaration of Independence from Vol. 186, No. 622
The Author and Signers of the Declaration of Independence from Vol. 186, No. 622
Poetry | Jeffrey Ethan Lee
self-inflicted ethnic cleansing—against self censorship
self-inflicted ethnic cleansing—against self censorship
Poetry | Throwback Thursday featuring Wyatt Townley from issue 291.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Wyatt Townley from issue 291.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Wyatt Townley from issue 291.2
Poetry | Gretchen Tessmer
Cyntactical Poetry
Cyntactical Poetry
No Genre | H. E. Francis
Excerpt from "Hog Island" from issue 300.3
Excerpt from "Hog Island" from issue 300.3
Poetry | Ian Randall Wilson
Perseverance
Perseverance
No Genre | Michelle Cacho-Negrete
Writing "First Husband" from issue 300.3
Writing "First Husband" from issue 300.3
Poetry | THROWBACK THURSDAY FEATURING ARLENE DISTLER FROM ISSUE 291.2
THROWBACK THURSDAY FEATURING ARLENE DISTLER FROM ISSUE 291.2
THROWBACK THURSDAY FEATURING ARLENE DISTLER FROM ISSUE 291.2
Poetry | Henry Finch
Writing Under the Influence
Writing Under the Influence
Poetry | Michael Spence
What I Learned from Carol Channing
What I Learned from Carol Channing
Poetry | Flashback Friday featuring Joan Colby from issue 293.2
Flashback Friday featuring Joan Colby from issue 293.2
Flashback Friday featuring Joan Colby from issue 293.2
No Genre | Thomas M. Atkinson
The conclusion to "Standing Deadwood" from issue 294.3-4
The conclusion to "Standing Deadwood" from issue 294.3-4
No Genre | Thomas M. Atkinson
A Special Saturday featuring "Standing Deadwood" from issue 294.3-4
A Special Saturday featuring "Standing Deadwood" from issue 294.3-4
Poetry | Throwback Thursday featuring Roy Bentley from issue 293.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Roy Bentley from issue 293.2
Throwback Thursday featuring Roy Bentley from issue 293.2
No Genre | Paul Crenshaw
A Teaching Moment
A Teaching Moment
No Genre | Can Books Fly?
Can Books Fly?
Can Books Fly?
No Genre | John Guzlowski
My Daughter Asked Me Once To Write Her a Poem
My Daughter Asked Me Once To Write Her a Poem
Poetry | Karen An-hwei Lee
On a Secret Language of Women as Fragrance, or Postscript to “A Short Autobiography of Perfume”
On a Secret Language of Women as Fragrance, or Postscript to “A Short Autobiography of Perfume”
No Genre | Donald Anderson
Life Stories
Life Stories
