Author: williamricci

  • Photos from 10/08/2011

    A 3-hour hike with Leroy and Patti, exploring the colors around the St. Croix River. [nggallery id=4]

  • Calming River

    A late summer-like hike through Wild River State Park to visit the tree and remember.  Leroy very much enjoyed the 3 miles, a swim in the river, and getting stuck in a swamp with me and Patti.  Photos and a poem will be posted soon.

  • Story About John Haines

    “A Walk in the Woods with John Haines” has been published in print by Edge Magazine and is available here for your reading pleasure. This story is about a walk in the woods I took a few years ago in northern Minnesota.  As John Haines is a great influence on my own writing, both poetry…

  • Coming Soon

    Later this year, I will be taking the wraps off a new on-line literary journal with a still secret name.

  • Frequently Asked Questions

    FAQs that I often receive regarding poetry submissions have been added to the Editor page.

  • Updated Submission Forms

    I have changed how submissions work.  For both The Edge and Whistling Shade, submissions can be sent through Submishmash.  The new form is available by visiting the Editor page. Submit to 418 Studios using submishmash

  • Poem – Warchild’s Innocence

    Written in 1992 Standing among the ruins. He looks out over to the west, as the sun sets upon the land And the smoke billows from the ruins. Many thoughts at once run through his mind and collide. He stands alone, afraid to look. Afraid to ask. In his arms, he holds all that is…

  • Interview in November

    An interview I completed with Marya Hornbacher is set to be published in the November edition of the Edge.

  • Response to Northography – A Photo by Gina Kelly

    Response to Northography #253 – A Photo by Gina Kelly http://www.northography.com/responses.php?stimulus_id=253 Poem 1 – Rest bicycles succumb to rust; natures persistent chase returning forged steel to earth. paint chips lifted by ocean wind, orange and blue confetti land and rest at my feet. neither memory tarnished. Poem 2 – Dust I road from the coast…

  • Response to Northography – Woman and Skeleton

    Response to Northography #254 – Woman and Skeleton http://www.northography.com/responses.php?stimulus_id=254 I have pondered in silence from near and far, a photo of a woman pulled into herself seated on an antique couch. She is not alone. A silhouette, or projection, perhaps, upright facing toward some distant painting of the renaissance era. Nothing comes to me, so…