Author: El Portal
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Highway 50
March Web Feature Highway 50 – Ahsha M. Vigil The payphone beeps loudly, the operator’s monotone voice pours through the earpiece. “Please deposit one nickel for five more minutes. You have thirty seconds before I must disconnect the call.” The hitchhiker looks for another nickel in his empty pockets. The phone goes silent and beeps…
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Thaddeus Rutkowski, Fall 2019 Visiting Writer
“A moth sees a flame, or multiple flames, through its compound eyes. The image is a kaleidoscope of luminous spots radiating from their brightest point— the corona around a burning candle’s tip. The moth has no choice but to fly toward the light.” – On Soft Wings, Thaddeus Rutkowski In October of…
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Amazonians Have a Hundred Words for Green
February Web Feature INFINITE KARMIC LORE from Amazonians Have a Hundred Words for Green by Gerard Sarnat Here we are living in bliss on the “D” type exact epicenter of the San Andreas Fault’s apocalyptic Richter earthquake risk. Redwoods almost as ancient as the ancientest dinosaur from the Triassic era nearly a quarter of a…
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Your Pet Turtle
January Web Feature Your Pet Turtle –William Doreski We agree that nothing is absolute, not the dark of closets, not clock-faces, not the stink of cooking fat. But we disagree on the exceptions. You place your plastic crucifix on the wall and claim that it represents the ultimate. I prop Wallace Stevens’ Collected Poems against…
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Fall 2019 Prize Winners
Congratulations to our ENMU Student Prize Winners for Fall 2019 FICTION 1st place: Natalie Franco Torres for “A Second Chance” 2nd place: Timothy Gettle for “The Light of a Lavender Sky” POETRY 1st place: “Bicycle” by Cody Wilhelm 2nd place: “Another Myth” by Bridget Richardson 3rd place: “Laid to Rest” by Falyn Benavidez PHOTOGRAPHY 1st…
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Poems by Simon Perchik
December Web Feature by Simon Perchik * You feed these birds at night the way every feather they use comes from a quarry where the air darkens with each landing –it’s Tuesday and you still have not forgotten their return for seeds, endlessly weeping for a missing child a brother, mother though their eyes are…
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Fall 2019 Visiting Writer
El Portal and the ENMU Department of Languages and Literature are delighted to announce our Fall 2019 visiting writer: Thaddeus Rutkowski. Join us for a personal reading by Thaddeus Rutkowski on Tuesday, October 8th at 3:30 pm in ENMU’s Little Theater. Rutkowski’s novel, Haywire, was a fiction finalist for the Asian American Literary Award, and…
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Poetry Throw Back: Steve Bellin-Oka
A former guest poet/mentor turned Artist-in-Residence, Steve Bellin-Oka, shared the following piece with El Portal on November 11, 2016. We always knew he was bound for great things and are deeply honored to say, with a full heart, “we knew him when.” Still Life with the Plague of Darkness —…
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Write. Now.
Send us your best work: el.portal@enmu.edu We’re always reading for digital content. In the subject line of your e-mail, include: Digital Submission, Name, Title of Work. For submission guidelines: https://elportaljournal.com/submissions/
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Reader: Tyne Sansom
Tyne Sansom, former editor of El Portal will be reading his work on Monday, October 29th at 2:30p.m. in ENMU’s Art & Anthropology Building room 110. Tyne Sansom is a graduate student in English creative writing at ENMU. He lives with his family in Portales, NM. He enjoys road cycling on the high plains and…
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Reader: Stefan Kiesbye
Stefan Kiesbye, former creative writing professor at Eastern New Mexico University, and close friend of El Portal, will be reading excerpts of his work on Monday, October 29th at 2:30p.m. in ENMU’s Art & Anthropology Building room 110. Stefan Kiesbye stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and the…
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Join Us – October Readings
Join us on Monday, October 29th at 2:30p.m. in Eastern New Mexico University’s Art & Anthropology building, room 110, for readings by 6-time novelist Stefan Kiesbye and ENMU student Tyne Sansom.
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SUBMIT!
We want your best work! El Portal is seeking submissions for our Spring 2019 issue. If you have a piece you’d like to share, our editors are always reading. ENMU students are eligible for cash prizes and an extended deadline. ENMU student deadline is: December 15th.
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Terror, Tension, Teaching
Join El Portal staff & the ENMU Languages and Literature Deptartment in welcoming former faculty Stefan Kiesbye, now assistant professor of Creative Writing at Sonoma State University, back to the staked plains for a reading of his work on Monday, October 29th at 2:30 p.m. in the Art and Anthropology building, room 110. Graduate student,…
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