Star 82 Review is an independent art and literature, online and print magazine that highlights words and images in gemlike forms. Each issue includes a combination of flash fiction, creative nonfiction, erasure texts, narrative art, word+image, collage poems, and poetic storytelling featuring subtle humor, humility and humanity, the strange and the familiar, and hope.
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Star 82 Review was founded in 2012 by Alisa Golden, then a senior adjunct professor in the Printmaking Program at California College of the Arts, later, teaching letterpress in the MFA Writing Program, now a freelance writer, editor, and artist. She has been making books since 1983 under the imprint never mind the press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, a BFA from CCA(c) in Printmaking. You can find her book art, art quilts, and links to her writing, blog, and YouTube channel, never mind.
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[…] By Simona CariniAt the Greenwich Observatory onceI straddled the brass line in the courtyardOne foot EastOne foot WestHeart at longitude 0°.Felt familiar.Walking around North BerkeleyI happened on a house bisectedYellow on the rightGray on the left.Felt finely honed painwafting out the divorced houseEast and West facing off at a meridianrunning down the front and a short flight of stairsBright red on the rightBurgundy on the left.Felt like the child going homehaving to decide whether to enterthe door on the rightor on the leftTo inhabit my father’s worldor my mother’sHeart at longitude 0°.Except home was one apartmentwith one doorone kitchen and one bathroom.One familynever divorced.The mystery of the divided façadeof my parents’ marriage.From the sidewalk across the street,the halves conflict.At close rangethe shift across the line is not a chasmbut a shade easily traveled.The line they drew between themgrew into a wall.They lost sight of each othertalking to the wallyelling across it.I visit two cemeteriesbring flowers to two tombstonesbalance on the line of compassionHeart at longitude 0°.“The Divorced House” was originally published in Star 82 Review. […]