Glass by the River
You're five-six-seven-eight-nine years old. You're running with scraped knees and a stick retrieved from a mossy bank. Your mom worries...
Family Ghosts
I see people where they are not. The first fragment was Hannah in the body of a girl with red hair and olive skin. I stopped walking in...
Gasmaske
The sky is surely collapsing. The rolling maelstrom of man-made thunder is constant, never stopping. There is no more blue up in the sky...
Contest Winners: Whiskey Island's First Annual Undergraduate Creative Writing Contest
Whiskey Island is thrilled to announce the winners of its first annual creative writing contest! The following three pieces showed...
Talking Deep Space with Gail DiMaggio
Gail DiMaggio’s poem “Welcome to Deep Space” was published in Issue 71 of Whiskey Island. The poem deals with themes of desire,...
Moving Toward Creative Writing Professionally
As a writer, one goes through many different stages. I am a creative writing student going through my first round of undergraduate...
Cleveland State Undergraduate Contest
Whiskey Island is thrilled to announce its first annual undergraduate writing contest! CSU undergrads are encouraged to submit their...
Interview with Issue 67 Essayist, Kat Moore
1. One aspect of "The Wounds" that I love, so much, is the structure. Did you go into the piece with the structure planned or was it...
Rhyming the Living with the Dead
On a walk about a month ago, lines from an older poem of mine, “The Waters of Separation,” ran through my mind repeatedly: we wait riven...
On Noticing
It all started with a poster plastered in a subway stairwell in Chelsea. It was dingy, off-white and torn-- but in the middle was a...
