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Aura Submissions Spring 2013
Aura is now accepting new submission: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, plays, music, art and photography for this Fall. Submission forms is available at this link: AURA Submissions Deadline: March 15, 2013 The deadline on the downloaded form is from last semester. The correct deadline is stated above. Please fill out and return this form and submitted [...]
TeamAura Interviews Spring2012
Derek Nelson, the author of “Cannibal Chicken” talks about his inspiration.
MOMMY
by: Bethany Mitchell | Published: Spring 2012 MOMMY by: Bethany Mitchell PAGE 2
DAMN
by: Rob Needham | Published: Spring 2012 Oh God, don’t let her see me. Oh yeah, God can’t hear me. DAMN by: Rob Needham PAGE 2 DAMN by: Rob Needham PAGE 3 DAMN by: Rob Needham PAGE 4 DAMN by: Rob Needham PAGE 5 DAMN by: Rob Needham PAGE 6
A LOUD LIBRARY
by: George Sawaya | Published: Spring 2012 We’re a loud library And we like it. Come in, pluck a book From a shelf and scream A verse or two. Belt out the poetry of noise. Downstairs the children run And scream And no one stops them. The little heathens, cretins, Finding more ecstasy in madness [...]
CANNIBAL CHICKEN
by: Derek Nelson | Published: Spring 2012 He walked through the coop like a businessman, Carrying a big black briefcase in his hand. “CLICK” went the locks. “CREAAAK” went the straps; All before the rooster’s waking taps. A hen awoke as he flooded with guile, She inquired why his smile was as big as the [...]
WHAT SEPARATES US
by: Cheyenne Taylor | Published: Spring 2012 Them, Them oxycodone low-rollers, Black-ballers, Torn jeans and baseball caps. Their words stretch out on tobacco stains, And their breath rattles laughter. Curtains. Thin, yellow, mother curtains. Them poor kids, or, Them dirt-bathed miners, eating at the rock face under back roads that You’d never know about if [...]
MIND, HEART, SOUL SPIN
by: Robert Conditt | Published: Spring 2012 Staring at the ceiling Just me and my feelings Are listening To my mind’s wheel spinning It’s turning you over -tumbling the tumbler- I’m wondering how you slumber And if you dream of me. Seeing without seeing Trusting my heart’s beating As it’s aching In its blind pain [...]
THE CATERPILLAR
by: Kathryn Thagard | Published: Spring 2012 The Caterpillar Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Who are you? –The Caterpillar The blue caterpillar, toking smirks, drapes himself over the spore-spotted mushroom, while noon- day haze ignites his bellowing yawns. Securing the hookah base with the crescent of his silhouette, he grazes its garnished grommets, the snake-like hose [...]
CAT EYES
by: Elise Woodard | Published: Spring 2012 Blue marbles scatter across the floor, waiting for my rubber heel to crush their stone, knocking off the equilibrium of my long, clumsy body.
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