http://www.literal-latte.com A Journal of Poetry, Prose and Art Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:41:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/addicted-to-chad/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/addicted-to-chad/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 04:02:37 +0000 Michael Varga http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1477 Second Prize, 2010 Literal Latte Essay Award. When I was a child and my parents argued, my father used to escape to the basement and listen to his short-wave radio. Growing up in Philadelphia, I knew nothing of a wider world until I snuck down to the cluttered, messy cellar and eavesdropped behind the stacks of magic-markered wooden storage boxes and shelves of re-labeled peanut butter jars of nails and screws. ]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/addicted-to-chad/feed/ 8 http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/with-these-shackles-i-thee-wed/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/with-these-shackles-i-thee-wed/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 04:00:45 +0000 Cullen McVoy http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1499 First Prize, 2010 Literal Latte Essay Award.It was a time when guys were cats, gals were chicks, the police were pigs, and spray-can graffiti said things like, "Up against the wall, Motherfucker!" [....]]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2011/05/with-these-shackles-i-thee-wed/feed/ 3 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/book-of-hours/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/book-of-hours/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:13:58 +0000 Gina P. Vozenilek http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1194 Second Prize, 2009 Literal Latte Essay Award. The ground comfortable as any bed. A whistle of grass between your teeth. The green blanket tickling and sticking to your sunburned arms, your thighs, the fleshy backs of your hands where they cross beneath your head. A rabbit! An elephant . . . now a truck. There: a whale! The wind swells high overhead in the trees. You recline with all the world above you, all before you, fluid and beautiful and endless. You are six[...]]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/book-of-hours/feed/ 5 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/spring/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/spring/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:10:36 +0000 Ella Wilson http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1190 http://www.literal-latte.com/2010/03/spring/feed/ 10 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/god-of-books/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/god-of-books/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:36:09 +0000 Margi Fox http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=821 First Prize 2009 Latte Essay Awards. My uncle Henry Robbins was the God of Books. When a massive heart attack felled him at New York's 14th Street subway station nearly three decades ago, he was also Dutton's Editor-in-Chief. Others may have written the books, but he brought them full blown to life[...]]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/06/god-of-books/feed/ 6 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/the-pedagogy-of-decoration/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/the-pedagogy-of-decoration/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:41:17 +0000 Rachel Toliver http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=409 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/the-pedagogy-of-decoration/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/all-aboard-or-maybe-not/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/all-aboard-or-maybe-not/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:19:42 +0000 Lynne Sharon Schwartz http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=545 http://www.literal-latte.com/2009/03/all-aboard-or-maybe-not/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/a-sort-of-welcoming/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/a-sort-of-welcoming/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000 Karen Benning http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/04/18/a-sort-of-welcoming/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/a-sort-of-welcoming/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/the-fox-breaks-the-code/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/the-fox-breaks-the-code/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000 Annie Dawid http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/06/13/the-fox-breaks-the-code/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/the-fox-breaks-the-code/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/the-camphor-suitcase/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/the-camphor-suitcase/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000 Xujun Eberlein http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/06/13/the-camphor-suitcase/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/the-camphor-suitcase/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/i-made-it-myself/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/i-made-it-myself/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000 James Gollin http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/06/13/i-made-it-myself/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2008/11/i-made-it-myself/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2005/08/14-crossings/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2005/08/14-crossings/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:12:50 +0000 Ken Sonenclar http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=62 http://www.literal-latte.com/2005/08/14-crossings/feed/ 1 http://www.literal-latte.com/2000/06/jury-duty/ http://www.literal-latte.com/2000/06/jury-duty/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:16:31 +0000 Tyler C. Gore http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=903 http://www.literal-latte.com/2000/06/jury-duty/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/1999/07/a-day-at-the-beach/ http://www.literal-latte.com/1999/07/a-day-at-the-beach/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 1999 21:53:58 +0000 Tyler C. Gore http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=200 sneering cynicism before I could even get it started. Afterwards, Lucy and her family took the water taxi back, but I decided to walk, lured by rumors of a nude beach in the vicinity[...]]]> http://www.literal-latte.com/1999/07/a-day-at-the-beach/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/1999/03/dining-in-french/ http://www.literal-latte.com/1999/03/dining-in-french/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 1999 01:41:52 +0000 Patricia Lynne Duffy http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=248 http://www.literal-latte.com/1999/03/dining-in-french/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/1998/12/pictures-in-the-mud/ http://www.literal-latte.com/1998/12/pictures-in-the-mud/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:50:19 +0000 Kay Sloan http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=1167 http://www.literal-latte.com/1998/12/pictures-in-the-mud/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/1996/07/the-moa-stalker/ http://www.literal-latte.com/1996/07/the-moa-stalker/#comments Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:06:50 +0000 John M. Edwards http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=579 http://www.literal-latte.com/1996/07/the-moa-stalker/feed/ 0 http://www.literal-latte.com/1994/06/if-men-could-menstruate/ http://www.literal-latte.com/1994/06/if-men-could-menstruate/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 1994 22:11:57 +0000 Gloria Steinem http://www.literal-latte.com/?p=768 http://www.literal-latte.com/1994/06/if-men-could-menstruate/feed/ 0