Author: Word Fountain Editors

Word Fountain is the literary magazine of the Osterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Est. 2009

Matthew Rotando, Summer 2016

The Beast That Lunges
Matthew Rotando

The best thing about remembering is that it’s in your hands. You revolt against sleep and become a phantom in time, moving through rooms and visions as a wiry, feral child. You don’t need words to eat, to find shelter. You taste water in air and move to it with your thirst. You kneel over a lake at night. The outline of your face is a surprise. You breathe hard and lunge into recollection. You run backwards and laugh at your heelprints in the earth. Snakes slide back to their skins. Fires grow into trees. Pearls soften to sand. You unwrite the future for the happy beast you are becoming. Rain whispers quietly upward. The past begins to show. Clarity is dimness. Your hands as clouds, as fins, as roaming notes. Continue reading “Matthew Rotando, Summer 2016” →

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John Devers Jr., Summer 2016

Two Poems

Kingston
John Devers Jr.

Let your car replace your mind
And drive
To retrace your steps
Down old, familiar streets.
You pass the pizza place
Turned floral shop,
Whose pizza was terrible
With over-risen bread
And diluted tomato sauce,
But you ate it because
You were young
And your parents
Only gave you so much.

You pass the ice cream shop,
Where either the workers
Got younger
Or you got taller,
And your chances of low-key
Freebies
Dropped exponentially
The further you went away
From your High School graduation.

You pass your ex’s house Continue reading “John Devers Jr., Summer 2016” →

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Chrome Yellow

We’ve shared the list of contributors to the new 2016 Summer Issue, and a bit about two of these writers already. With the release party coming up this Friday, June 17th, we thought you would enjoy some more previews, so we’re sharing the following links to works by more of our writers from elsewhere, Continue reading “More About Our Contributors” →

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Summer 2016 Contributors

As we work toward next month’s release party for our spring relaunch issue, we’ll give you some previews of some of the writers whose work will appear within it’s pages. Once we have the bios ready we will share some juicy tidbits from those, but we thought it would be fun for now, in order of appearance, to share with you the names of the poets and fiction writers who will grace the pages of the next Word Fountain: Continue reading “Summer 2016 Contributors” →

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It’s No April Fools Joke

On April 1st, 1980, the BBC reported that Big Ben would go digital.
On April 1st, 1980, the BBC reported that Big Ben would go digital.

Seriously, our submission deadline for the revival of Word Fountain is April 1st, 2016. Yeah, we did that. Maybe we should have said March 31st, so you wouldn’t think this was some kind of April Fool’s joke. But hey, look it as an extra day, and how appropriate is it that this extra day is Continue reading “It’s No April Fools Joke” →

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