Featured: Week of Sept. 10
As anyone will know who’s ever tried to find a romantic love poem, many love poems are really about death. This week, three writers take a look at our mortality through fanciful language and imagery. Erica Goss, in her poem, “Flowers,” imagines the secret lives of plants. Margaret A. Frey, in her flash fiction piece, “Rising Expectations,” chronicles a woman’s attempt to fly. Maurice Oliver, in his poem, “Refashioned, Using Sued Juxtapose,” subverts an ordinary morning with a surprising result. Please also check out Radmila Djurica’s...
Read MoreFeatured: Week of Sept. 3
In our second weekly installment since we converted from a quarterly format, we feature work from three women. In her triolet, “Your Old & Forever Wedding Patchwork,” poet Patricia Ranzoni weaves a wedding runner in words. In her short story, “Learning to Dance,” writer Barbara Kussow explores the blurry relationship between dance and romance. Photographer Kate LaDew’s “Petra” and “Mount of Olives” capture the beauty and ethereal color of our...
Read MoreFeatured: Week of August 27
Welcome to a new beginning! After years of struggling to maintain the quarterly publishing schedule — with its lengthy, intense periods of design work — we’ve moved towards a publishing model that makes more sense: both for me and for our contributors. Scrapping the “issue” format, each week we’ll publish a small range of pieces that work together. Sometimes it will be poetry, sometimes fiction, humor, essays, reviews, interviews or more. For those interested in how to cite Wild Violet works, now that the publishing format has changed, please...
Read MoreWild Transitions (Vol. IX Issue 1, Spring 2010)
As the first issue of the new design, Wild Transitions (Vol. IX Issue 1, Spring 2010) includes works that demonstrate a transition: whether between relationships or places, between worlds or between viewpoints.
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