Lit

Spoken Toledo’s first storytelling event

Janet Stengle

Speak your mind

Poetry and jazz “Howl” in the city

Chris Watson

The beat of a generation

2015 Northern Writers' Project

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The playwright of way

Wild Swans: The Daughters of China

Mara Kalinoski

Illegal pages

U-T prof-author nurtures the creative process

John Q. Horn

Toledo author and educator customizes writing process

Honorable Mention: paperboy

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damp-leaved november mornings find me as a boy when I rose ahead of the sun, and I pedaled my bike thru predawn twilight,...

Honorable Mention: where to hide chocolate (for Caity)

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when you were young, stashing the chocolate cold behind vegetables was just right. then you grew - like a mushroom. behind the eggs?...

Honorable Mention: Paper Dolls

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It sounded like something dropped, a bag perhaps or wet towels. Not a person, twitching and twelve years old in a doorway. Her...

Honorable Mention: Worry

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Worry You can see it in the wrinkles on a man's forehead, or in the way his jaw clinches tight. You can see it...

Honorable Mention: blithering synonyms

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if i had to hold my breath for you to be honey i’d turn blue before i say goodbye to you

Honorable Mention: Spy

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Crabapples crushed. The sickly sweet smell and bees hanging around. Mowing the lawn, maybe the last time; frost has kissed us once or twice....

Honorable Mention: Jelly Jar

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Scrape at my soul jar and rattle that knife, It’s thinned out, see, and is streaked at the sides. You’ve had my preserves, my...

Honorable Mention: In the Suburbs

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perfect still trees on the summer street a rollerblader floats through in dotted half rhythms a guy that looks like Clark Kent walks five...

Honorable Mention: youth

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time was invented by man, so dismantle his pendulum; until clocks crack under the weight of your teeth, until minutes bounce backwards and backwards...

Honorable Mention: The Mechanics of Happily Ever After

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My father first saw me as an LSD vision while he was hiking in Wyoming. He was walking up mountains, trying to catch a...

Honorable Mention: Perfect Day

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How would you describe the perfect day…. Would it involve rain in the sky and sleeping all day… Could it be the sun, sand,...

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