kerning | a space for words no. 5

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We are thrilled to present the fifth issue of kerning, a biannual compendium of writing that includes poetry, fiction, short stories, flash fiction, personal essays and creative nonfiction from women and gender diverse people.

For this issue, we invited writers to send us work based on the theme “The Company We Keep,” work that explores kinship and connection with another—whether longstanding or fleeting, platonic or romantic, familial or foreign, bewildering or obvious, carefree or complicated. What was the magnetic force that drew two people into orbit with each other (or flung them out of it?), and what world was born from their tether to each other?

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anaïs Nin

We are thrilled to present the fifth issue of kerning, a biannual compendium of writing that includes poetry, fiction, short stories, flash fiction, personal essays and creative nonfiction from women and gender diverse people.

For this issue, we invited writers to send us work based on the theme “The Company We Keep,” work that explores kinship and connection with another—whether longstanding or fleeting, platonic or romantic, familial or foreign, bewildering or obvious, carefree or complicated. What was the magnetic force that drew two people into orbit with each other (or flung them out of it?), and what world was born from their tether to each other?

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anaïs Nin

What’s Inside . . .

Poetry

Watershed  |  Michelle Latvala
Many Mothers  |  Ellen Taylor
On Sundays  |  Jennifer Groff
Conversations  |  Nan Seymour
Herons  |  Tracie Nichols
Hellebores  |  Sue Ann Gleason
Saranne  |  Margaret A. Haberman
Arctic Cold  |  Margaret A. Haberman
Sister as Red Flag Warning  |  Anne Rankin
An Evaluation of My Parents as Parents, Which You’ll Interpret as Self-Pity  |  Anne Rankin
The Heartache of Drought  |  Alida Rol
Stationary Bike Trip  |  Alida Rol
Erogeography  |  Moira Walsh
For Olja (I)  |  Moira Walsh
please have a seat  |  Kathleen Hellen
places light finds  |  Lizzie Purkis
Solo  |  Carolyn Martin
Couplet  |  Margaret Hsu
Camphor Balm  |  Samantha Wallen
MARRIEDSINGLE  |  Barb Reynolds
Ron  |  Wren Pearson
Letter to McClendon from Bodega Bay  |  Devika Brandt
Heading Home  |  Carolyn Locke
Letter by Mail Plane  |  Michelle Latvala

 

Short Fiction

Dear Owen  |  Chris Masterman

Essayette

The Only Thing That Feels Familiar  |  Mary Katherine Creel

Creative Nonfiction

To the End of the Earth  |  Amie McGraham
Tulips  |  Janis Brams

Cover Art

Among the Others  |  Sally Stanton

Postcard Art

Wheeling Gulls, Monhegan | Kelly Desrosiers