Category: El Portal Web Features
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Supreme Decisions
Supreme Decisions –Jim Piatt Promises, discarded, broken, lie beside other dusty laws of the past, trampled under the grime of ideology: Hopes, shattered lives thrown into the pit of Indifference born of greed…ignorance, untried principles: Compassion wilting in the darkness of shattered dreams, kindness melted into the fiscal indifference of our time, all under the…
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THE TRUMPETER
July Web Feature THE TRUMPETER –John Grey No one noticed his brown eyes, receding hairline, or the goatee poking out of his chin. He was only ever the trumpet he played. On stage, that was understandable. His mouth was wide open and brass. His fingers, valve slides and buttons. But, even on the street, he…
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The Ping Not Taken
May Web Feature The Ping Not Taken – Storey Clayton In 1998, the year I graduated high school, Gwyneth Paltrow starred in a movie called “Sliding Doors.” The basic premise of the film was to illustrate the momentous differences in one’s life that can hinge on a comparatively small matter of timing: e.g., making…
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poems by Bridget Richardson
Cupide and his lyste of arwes or The path to my degree My first love forgot to love me back so I buried him and found another. My second love imagined he were a Russian spy – he faked his death. In good fashion, I pretended to mourn and moved on before he could resurface.…
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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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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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“Chthonic Cinema” by Gregory Rapp (September Web Feature)
I know you’re busy with studying and jerkin’ off to the stuff you found on 4Chan, but I’ve got somethin’ for you, bro. It’s a real sweet place few people know about. I’m tellin’ you because you’re a friend. That’s what friends’re for. You interested? Of course you are, so hear me out. It’s about…
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An Interview with El Portal’s Incoming Editor: Kayleen Burdine [by Alexandra Itzi]
A native of Carlsbad, New Mexico, Kayleen Burdine will be assuming editorship of El Portal in August 2015. After graduating with a Bachelors of Arts in English from Eastern New Mexico University this May, she will be entering the Graduate Program in English at ENMU in the fall semester of 2015. Although Burdine will be…
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El Portal Seeking Submissions for Fall 2015 Issue
El Portal is currently seeking submissions for its Fall 2015 issue. The deadline for Fall 2015 submissions is 31 March 2015. If you have any questions about submitting to El Portal, please feel free to drop us a line at el.portal@enmu.edu. For submission guidelines and official rules, please visit our official Guidelines and Terms of…
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February’s El Portal Web Features
This month’s web feature includes poetry by Alexandra Itzi. Check out Itzi’s “Nothing” and “Marlboro Marlboro.” If you have questions concerning El Portal web features, feel free to drop us a line at el.portal@enmu.edu.
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El Portal’s First Web Feature
Check out El Portal‘s very first web feature (“Silencing Rivers”) by Jade Smith. Our hope is to publish a web feature every month between August and May. If you have any questions about El Portal‘s web features, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu.
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